Is elton john gay or bi
Elton John comes out in the s - what would be different today?
Nema
Did anybody really think Elton John was straight?
To add on that did women ever have crushes on him and view him as a sex symbol in the 70’s? I’m sure some did but I’m talking about in general? Like Elton John posters in teen magazines?
Or did people not view him in that way and just saw him as a talented, huge star?
Back to the gay question, I know Elton John was married to a woman from
Telemark22
… wait, what? The VP’s common image was all about existence openly gay.
And at least two of the guys were straight.
journeyman_southpaw23
Here’s an NME article from with Freddie Mercury going on register as stating he’s “gay as a daffodil,” but playing it coy when the reporter pursues that line of questioning further. Queen didn’t do much apply pressure after the early years because they were slammed by the media so much and because Freddie was a shy and private person offstage - the few interviews he did provide later on were not very revealing at all.
Jeff_Lichtman24
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Did people in equate "The Bitch is Back" = Elton John is gay?
Wee_Bairn1
I recall when the tune came out, but was too juvenile to have a concept of what being gay was. Anyhoo, assuming I am not starting from a fake premise, if, as I am told, Elton John’s gayness was not ordinary knowledge in his 70’s heyday, what then did people make of a song where he is referring to himself as a “bitch”? Did that clue everyone in, and if not, why not? Did bitch have a different meaning endorse then?
xnylder2
Maybe I’m the only person who thought this, but when I was younger, I assumed he was singing about a woman, from her point of view. This belief was compounded in my slowly maturing thinker when I heard Elton perform a duet of this song with Tina Turner.
Kent_Clark3
“Bitch” was not automatically associated with gayness in the early '70s. I think xnylder’s translation was a lot more common.
RealityChuck4
I don’t recall anyone making the connection support then. As was typical, only a small portion of those who listend to top forty songs actually listened to the l
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In , Elton John was engaged to be married to his first girlfriend Linda Woodrow, but he ended the relationship two weeks before their wedding date.
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