Prince is gay

Explore the truth behind his sexuality, relationships, and androgynous style, and find out what really fuelled the long-standing rumours. But the years after that saw Prince actively avoid talking about gay rights, and some writers saw subtle homophobia in a few of his later lyrics and actions.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher. When he exploded as a musical force in the late s, Prince seemed like a one-person sexual revolution—someone unabashedly reveling in taboo topics, unafraid to be explicitly horny, and brazen enough to be naked, half naked, or spiffed up in frilly shirts and facial finery as he pleasured himself and his millions of panting fans.

How hypocritical. The artist has never publicly confirmed his sexuality. The fluid electricity of his persona galvanized our puritanical country while celebrating the fabulous freak, the defiant outsider, and the dark dandy. It’s important to note though that Prince has only been linked to women throughout his life, so it’s safe to assume that he was straight.

His admirers followed every flashy orgasm, extending his purple reign over several heated decades of fun and furor. "Prince's alleged anti-gay stance is baffling. As he sang in “Controversy,” Prince luxuriated in not conforming to any easy classification as male or female, black or white, straight or gay—and as his career developed, we might also add.

Follow Michael Musto on Twitter. If gays were being flushed away, then surely Prince would be the first one down the bowl! Appaarrently, to the all-encompassing, liberating Prince, this was an unforgivable offense—something deserving utter contempt and pity. But that, of course, only made it even more desirable to the kids, who found ways to stand under the cherry moon and soak in the forbidden rays.

However, it’s not surprising that many fans consider him a queer icon thanks to his brand and persona. Videos by VICE. And he just cleared it all out. Prince loved women and also embraced his femininity - femininity doesn’t make a person gay. The operating assumption in the late s and early s was that Prince was gay.

Sadly, he eventually got trapped in his purple bubble of privilege and started railing against the gays. "Raunchy Prince was actually a conservative Christian who opposed gay marriage," read one headline published Friday in the Washington Post. Sadly, it happens all the time, as witnessed by Barry Humphries aka drag queen Dame Edna recently railing against trans women as not real women, just mutilated men.

Was Prince Gay? No, Prince wasn’t gay. Was Prince gay? How does a symbol of liberation become one of oppression? By Matt Jancer. I’m happy to be gay myself but I don’t need Prince to be gay just because he was a fem dude. By Ashley Fike. His pint-sized purple majesty was a froofy, frilly, unapologetic weirdo who pushed boundaries to the point where his relentlessness resulted in a panic stricken Tipper Gore launching parental warnings on his music.

In a interview with Musician magazine, Prince was asked about it. He grabbed society by its collar, pulled it out of politeness, and into a boudoir filled with possibility. Onstage—where I was lucky enough to catch him multiple times through the years—Prince was an insatiable dynamo, someone who lived to deliver up there and tirelessly sang and pranced for hours, with a wealth of musical genius at his fingertips and a plethora of bad boy theatrics on his tongue.

His music regularly pumped through the dance clubs, where the lyrical naughtiness was utterly welcome and the raunchy tone fit right in with the fantasy environment of people flailing their bodies around with partners they were later going to fuck. How sad.