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    Judas Priest's Rob Halford: “America Is Nonetheless Extremely Homophobic”

    James EvendenBy James EvendenSeptember 25, 20254 Mins Read
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    Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford decried persistent homophobia in America throughout a current look on the “Queer the Music” podcast hosted by Scissor Sisters singer Jake Shears.

    Within the prolonged dialogue, Shears requested Halford if he thinks attitudes in direction of sexuality have modified in heavy metallic over the previous 25 years, to which Halford — arguably probably the most seen brazenly homosexual man in heavy metallic — replied: “Oh, yeah, though relying on the place you’re at. America remains to be extremely homophobic.”

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    “I’ve lived right here for a very long time and I’ve seen loads occur for the reason that ’80s,” Halford mentioned [as transcribed by Blabbermouth]. “It actually will get me offended and upset. However once I go on stage and carry out with Priest, some guys will say, ‘I like Judas Priest, however I’m not homosexual.’ [Laughs] You already know that factor — ‘I’m an enormous fan of Priest, however I’m not a homosexual man’ — that also lives with me now to some extent. It could be a fraction.”

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    Halford added that for probably the most half, followers at Priest reveals are very accepting, and that his sexuality normally has no bearing on the live performance expertise.

    “However once I stroll out on stage, when Priest is doing headline excursions and I do know that everyone has come there to see this band and listen to the songs that we’ve made and watch us carry out, absolutely they’re there with full acceptance of their coronary heart,” he mentioned. “Everyone in that room is, like, ‘Nicely, we don’t care’ — as they shouldn’t. They shouldn’t care. This labeling, it shouldn’t be part of something. They shouldn’t care. It’s about what you’re doing. It’s about your artwork and your craft and your work. That’s all that issues.”

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    Halford publicly got here out throughout an MTV interview in 1998 through an off the cuff, candid comment that he hadn’t deliberate. The Metallic God mirrored on this second elsewhere within the dialog with Jake Shears.

    “So I’m in New York doing a presser for [short-lived supergroup] 2WO, and I’ve bought my black eyeliner on, I’ve bought this fur coat,” Halford recalled. “It’s on MTV, the bald head and the whole lot. We’re speaking about, da, da, da. They’re speaking concerning the band. And I am going, ‘Nicely, talking as a homosexual man, that is’ blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. After which I heard anyone’s clipboard drop on the ground, as a result of I had actually formally introduced to the world that I’m a homosexual man. So I did that present. I went again to the resort, sat within the room, going, ‘What have I achieved? What have I achieved?’ And I used to be, like, ‘I don’t care.’”

    When requested the way it felt to publicly reveal his homosexuality, Halford added, “It felt very pure as a result of it wasn’t premeditated. I hadn’t awoke that morning and [said to myself], ‘I’m gonna come out.’ It was simply the way in which I’m speaking to you now. It was only a pure stream of consciousness simply speaking away, and so it simply got here into the dialog and that was that.”

    Halford and Judas Priest are at present within the midst of their co-headlining tour with Alice Cooper. Dates run by way of October twenty sixth in Houston, with stops in main cities comparable to Toronto, Chicago (Tinley Park), Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Austin, amongst different markets. Get last-minute tickets right here.

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    Beneath you’ll be able to watch the total two-part “Queer the Music” interview with Rob Halford.





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