People can see lies in the art they're consuming, if it is a farce, and that sort of thing crashes and burns much faster as a result.

Regardless, the answer to the question posed is clearly and succinctly, No.

Everyone's personal, sexual, fashion, and consumer thoughts have nothing to do with this, sorry.

It's not a complex question at all.

rudeboynpg said:

If Prince was gay he would have been just as famous, and more understood and especially more accepted in the gay community. But being the way he was, he just confused a lot of people because he didn't even try to fit into the stereotypes of society - the lingering stupid ignorant old sterotypes of "hetero guys all dress and look macho butch", and sterotypes of "gay guys all dress and look flamboyant androgynous" - but who sang "Macho Man"? A gay group. Freddie Mercury was macho butch as well, for example. Jimi Hendrix and hippie counterculture guys and films like Easy Rider challanged those old stereotypes in the '60s, '70s Parliament and glam rock guys did as well, and pimps also dressed flamboyantly, that's where Prince was coming from in his style influences.

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No. Prince made a career out of blatant heterosexuality, it wasn't merely a by product it WAS in the beginning the commercial embodiment to the mass market.
Furthermore intellectually and culturally his appearance v his sexuality gave him kudos n changed boundaries. If prince were gay he would be seen as talented but the industry would have shoe horned him into v specific markets.

I hate the debate bout his sexuality. If he were gay someone would have come forward.
If I'm honest if prince were exposed as gay I would struggle. Not in the slightest anti gay but it would make him a fraud. Yes people are ok the closet but prince git mileage from his sexuality..that would be manipulation. Also I put a lot of store in his boundary breaking persina

StopIt said:

People can see lies in the art they're consuming, if it is a farce, and that sort of thing crashes and burns much faster as a result.

Regardless, the answer to the question posed is clearly and succinctly, No.

Everyone's personal, sexual, fashion, and consumer thoughts have nothing to do with this, sorry.

It's not a complex question at all.

rudeboynpg said:

If Prince was gay he would have been just as famous, and more understood and especially more accepted in the gay community. But being the way he was, he just confused a lot of people because he didn't even try to fit into the stereotypes of society - the lingering stupid ignorant old sterotypes of "hetero guys all dress and look macho butch", and sterotypes of "gay guys all dress and look flamboyant androgynous" - but who sang "Macho Man"? A gay group. Freddie Mercury was macho butch as well, for example. Jimi Hendrix and hippie counterculture guys and films like Easy Rider challanged those old stereotypes in the '60s, '70s Parliament and glam rock guys did as well, and pimps also dressed flamboyantly, that's where Prince was coming from in his style influences.

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Many people in society are ignorant, and misjudge with preconceived notions. As Prince himself said in "Uptown" (1980), "She said, 'Are you gay?' Kinda took me by suprise, I didn't know what to do, I just looked her in her eyes and I said, 'No, are you?' Said to myself, said 'She's just a crazy, crazy, crazy little mixed up dame. She's just a victim of society And all it's games.' Now where I come from we don't let society tell us how it's supposed to be. Our clothes, our hair, we don't care..."

And Prince's 1981 Paris interview: "I think anybody out of the 'norm' is going to get attacked. I get attacked for the clothes I wear. Anything different, their gonna go after you. It's like me and my group and other people like us that we hang around, we get a lot of slack for the way we dress and stuff like that. The first impression that they get is that we're gay. That's what they usually do when they don't understand something, people were I come from usually just write it off as being gay. Our clothes and the way we act and the things we say and our ways of doing things are not that. Don't judge a book (by it's cover), it's the same old thing. I don't think they understand yet.... It's important that one be free-minded and into individuality."

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