Book - David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music
There is a small section on David Cassidy.
Author: Darryl W. Bullock
ISBN: 9781468315592
Publisher: Abrams Press
Date: 2017
Excerpt:
In 1974, during an unguarded moment backstage in Hamburg, teen heartthrob David Cassidy came out to the German monthly Du Und Ich. ‘I’ve nothing at all to hide,’ he told reporter Valentino Rhonheimer. ‘I have many friends, men friends who I sleep with – and I enjoy it. I don’t let anyone dictate to me who I shall sleep with, just as I don’t tell anyone who they should sleep with. I only know that I wouldn’t want to sing to audiences who didn’t like me just because I had slept with a man.’14 Gossip about his sexuality has followed Cassidy for all of his life, but in this instance he may have been simply kidding around: although he has gone on record on many occasions to say that he supports LGBT rights, in his 2007 autobiography he backtracked on his candid admission, saying, ‘I had some thoughts about homosexuality – I’m sure we all have some thoughts about it as we’re growing up, finding ourselves. So I was, at times, unsure. It was only when I was actually confronted with the situation that I realised … I’m really just not into it.’ The book is surprisingly frank about his sexual exploits and his close friendships with a number of LGBT celebrities and, as he wrote, what did it matter ‘if I slept with men, women, snakes or sheep’ anyway? One thing the book did reveal was that his father, the actor Jack Cassidy, was also bisexual, and that dad had enjoyed a long affair with Cole Porter.
