OMEN
03-19-2008, 12:31 PM
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MICHAEL Stipe has revealed he is gay and thinks now is the right time to reveal his sexual orientation. He said: "It was super complicated for me in the '80s. I was totally open with the band and my family and my friends and certainly the people I was sleeping with. Now I recognise that for public figures to be very open about their sexuality helps some kid somewhere."
He added to Spin magazine: "There are songs I wrote in the past that were gender-specific. Chinese Brothers' was about me breaking up a couple - and then dating both of them, a man and a woman, which is a terrible thing to do, but I was young and stupid."
- BANG Showbiz / AP
MICHAEL Stipe has revealed he is gay and thinks now is the right time to reveal his sexual orientation. He said: "It was super complicated for me in the '80s. I was totally open with the band and my family and my friends and certainly the people I was sleeping with. Now I recognise that for public figures to be very open about their sexuality helps some kid somewhere."
He added to Spin magazine: "There are songs I wrote in the past that were gender-specific. Chinese Brothers' was about me breaking up a couple - and then dating both of them, a man and a woman, which is a terrible thing to do, but I was young and stupid."
- BANG Showbiz / AP