He was a world away from the guy in the ashes to ashes video, let alone the androgynous space alien of ziggy stardust. Although david bowie was openly bisexual throughout his early career—and that openness inspired queer filmmaker todd haynes to create his glam rock masterpiece velvet goldmine partly as a reimagining of bowie’s early years—many remember bowie’s famous anecdote about being a “closeted heterosexual” from an interview where he appeared. In the 1970s david bowie's passport to fame was his daringly ambiguous sexuality David bowie, sexuality and gender One could perhaps understand bowie’s statement that he was gay, or at least bisexual in 1972, but in the years that followed, bowie created personas that were more traditionally masculine in demeanour and appearance such as the thin white duke or the young americans era bowie. Just as his career was anything but conventional, so was david bowie’s love life
In fact, quite possibly, neither did. This was published 9 years ago was he gay, bisexual or bowie
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