Mag Publicity Stunts Part I: Wait, You Mean Michael Stipe Is Gay?
As first reported in the New York Daily News yesterday, REM frontman Michael Stipe has finally come out of the closet in the April issue of Spin. The news, of course, surprised absolutely noone. (Hell, did anyone not know that Stipe was gay?) Now, we’ve got a few excerpts from Spin‘s cover article:
“I recognize that to have public figures be very open about their sexuality helps some kid somewhere out there […] “7 Chinese Brothers” was about me breaking up a couple and then dating both of them — a man and a woman — which is a terrible thing to do.
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