Is morissey gay

One would imagine that, at age 60, Morrissey — Brit-pop’s patron saint of all things smartly smarmy, sexually obsessive, slyly sensitive and dramatic — might have tamed his theatrical side and tamped down his impulse to provoke his devoted audiences.

And yet on the stages of Camden’s BB&T Pavilion on Monday night, Morrissey — divine since fronting The Smiths from 1982-87, and still handsome, nattily dressed in a suit and loosely knotted tie — spent a large part of the evening adv testing and subtly prodding his fans.

With a radically conflicted persona, Morrissey has always pushed hot buttons of gender and sexuality politics. As the frontman of The Smiths, he claimed to be celibate while referencing gay subculture on stage and in lyrics. Since going solo, he has called himself a “humasexual,” and he very briefly discussed relationships with men and women in interviews and his autobiography.

Morrissey has long been a reluctant poster young man for the LGBTQ-plus movement. On Monday, however, images including Lypsinka and a dancing, smiling James Baldwin were projected on the screen behind him, an apparent ode to the gay community.

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