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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsToo bad David Bowie isn't alive today
He would have a FIELD DAY on DeSantis.
blm
(113,142 posts)at public venues in Florida.
https://americansongwriter.com/michael-mcdonald-willie-nelson-amp-david-hidalgo-team-up-to-benefit-farmworkers/
TxGuitar
(4,223 posts)I don't recall him being super political (at least publicly). Now, Lennon or Zappa would go to town on the guy for sure.
blm
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And his performance moves were often counter-culture in concept.
Bowie often performed in drag for his personal fun and art more than anything else, AND as a political statement when he felt like it.
He didnt fit into boxes even when they were self-constructed.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(43,235 posts)I mean, I guess he would? He did sing "I'm Afraid of Americans," which could certainly be construed politically, and by that virtue, I guess towards an asshole like DeSantis.
But tons of deceased celebrities would probably have a field day on a whole host of today's politicians.
FM123
(10,054 posts)and these words still stab me in the heart when I think about what that evil man is doing to our kids down here in FL
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're goin' through
maxsolomon
(33,475 posts)He provoked with his art; he didn't respond directly to politics. Sure, he may have said something at this point.
I don't know where you came up with this.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)From Rolling Stone, May 12, 1983:
The biggest mistake I ever made, he said one night after a couple of cans of Fosters Lager, was telling that Melody Maker writer that I was bisexual. Christ, I was so young then. I was experimenting .
So: he is not gay, whatever he may have blurted out in 1972. Nor was he ever a transvestite, thank you. Still, American TV for want of any more-recent product, its true has kept running his 1979 Boys Keep Swinging video, and so total strangers still breathily inquire whether hes doing drag onstage again. (Ive never done drag onstage, he huffs.)
That's...not the sort of thing solid allies say, you know? Background:
In a 1972 interview with the now defunct Melody Maker, Bowie declared, I'm gay, and I always have been. Its worth noting that this was the same year which Melody Maker called the year of the transvestite and 700 people walked from Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park in the first Gay Pride march. Homosexuality had been legalised a few years prior and things were fast changing. Four years later, Bowie pushed the boundaries even further and told Playboy magazine that he was bisexual. Its trueI am a bisexual, he announced. But I cant deny that Ive used that fact very well. I suppose its the best thing that ever happened to me.
Independent UK, Jan 11 2016
He was a queer ICON...but was he an ally? That's the question I've asked repeatedly over the years since his death and I still don't have a definitive answer.