David bowie is gay

A generation of gay fans had felt liberated by Bowie’s claim to be bisexual a decade earlier. Now, with AIDS panic in the media and a new strain of conservatism dominating politics on both sides of the Atlantic, it started to look like a PR stunt, or like he was moving back into the closet to appease middle America.

Bowie revelled in the androgyny of his creation Ziggy Stardust. But did appearances deceive? But in July he was an ordinary year-old living with his parents in an ordinary part of Kent.

"A few months before the TOTP appearance, Bowie said on the record in the Melody Maker that he was gay - or at least bisexual. (The interview with Michael Watts appeared on 22 January ).

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David Bowie's Let's Dance album was an instant success, but he backtracked on his bisexuality for its release.

This reader was prepared to ponder, through pages, this question: What does Bowie—androgynous, ambiguous, continually self-reinventing Bowie—represent to our culture? But a few pages in, I realized that I was holding a memoir, not a metaphor, in my hands. At times during the historical narrative, he pauses to pay Bowie touching tributes.

David Bowie’s gender-bending performances and cultural fluidity inspired a generation of gay, lesbian and transgender people.

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