"For many years Townshend refused to confirm or deny rumours that he was bisexual. In a 2002 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, however, he explained that, although he engaged in some brief same-sex experimentation in the 1960s, he is heterosexual. Townshend currently lives with his long-time partner"

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Progosopher wrote: Well, Queen should be a dead giveaway.    And no, I am not gay, but I am a musician.

Wow!

Progosopher, you captured my exact thoughts in one sentence!

One of the most succesful "gay statements" in 1980s popular music was Frankie Goes to Hollywood's (awful, to my ears) WELCOME TO THE PLEASURE DOME. This was virtually a sonic creation of producer Trevor Horn (formerly a member of Yes), who hired Steve Howe to play some lead guitar on it.

I think some people need to listen to "South of the Border" by Beardfish.

I am thinking about opening up a thread about cheese-lovers and progsters. How many of the prog rock musicians also love cheese ? We need to find out !!! I leave it like that........ 

Interesting topic if I had to sum it up I would have to say that being Gay and a musician became popular with the New wave bands more so in the 80's, at the time prog was really big being gay and coming out with it may have been a risky thing to admit to, remember attitudes have changed lots since the early 70's on such topics .. I would suspect that their were plenty of closet gays in prog bands at the time. The resurgence of prog in the 90's that became popular once again was largely a different type of prog we know as prog metal, now I may be wrong but metal and gay isnt really talked about in the same sentance too often either  so the situation is this ... I read somewhere that 10% of the male population is gay this includes prog bands metal bands any type of music any type of area concerned, but for some reason prog has decided in the interests of its own spirit to keep a lid on the topic even though we know they are out there gays in the prog world !   hope this helped


Edited by Yorkie X - May 28 2009 at 05:54

catfood03 wrote: As I was searching for a name in the back of my mind I remembered that Doug Pinnick, singer for the band King's X (who is covered on this site), came out as gay and has been open about it for many years now. Interesting to read about his decision to come out, considering his band was very popular in Christian Rock circles in their heyday.

darksideof wrote: Another one that came to mind is Dee Palmer formerly known as David Palmer. Jethro Tull Keybaordist during the 70's. however David is actually a transwoman not gay.. I am not sure if that counts.

Yes, I included trans people in my original post. I remember reading about Dee Palmer a couple years ago and totally forgot about her.

tinsolja wrote: i'm not interested in the sexuality of muso's and it shouldn't matter or make any difference what the person is.. We like to delve into peoples private lives..  the gossipy, tabloid culture we seem to have is not good.     Peace.

I am only interested in musicians who are out, not figuring out or outing closeted musicians.

catfood03 wrote: Hi there, everyone! I'm new here to the Prog Archives and the forum. I tried a search for this topic but did not find this discussed... I am curious to know if progressive rock has any openly gay musicians (gay, lesbian, transgendered...) among the roster of artists that are covered on this Prog Archives. I follow many styles of music and know of musicians who are out-of-the-closet  in pop, jazz, electronic, country, etc. With progressive rock being so wildly imaginative I would think it would attract people from many walks of life, and hellllOOO... not to mention some of the outfits worn by prog bands in the 70's!