Was pete burns gay
Gay marriage does not function - men are just too predatory, says Pete Burns
When he flashed his engagement ring on the sofa with Richard and Judy, pop star Pete Burns told of his happiness at the prospect of becoming the latest celebrity to marry his male partner.
But now, just ten months after the big day, the singer has split from Michael Simpson, saying civil partnerships do not work and that he was happier being married to a woman.
Burns, 49, who was wed to stylist Lynne Corlett for 28 years, said gay relationships were a "commercial break" compared with the "full movie" of marriage.
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Pete Burns dresses as a geisha miss on his wedding afternoon with Michael Simpson. But he says that homosexual marriages do not function because men are too predatory
He also claimed there were too much "promiscuity" in the gay people for civil partnerships to thrive.
Burns followed in the footsteps of Sir Elton John and Petty Britain star Matt Lucas in using the novel civil partnership laws to announce his public devotion to his lover.
He dressed as a geisha girl in a kimono for the ceremony in London on July 7 last year.
He told The Mail on Sunday he had been "optimisti
Pete Burns
He was born in Port Sunlight on the Wirral and worked for a time in a record shop in Liverpool. In 1980 he founded the band "Dead or Alive". In 2006 he was a contestant in Celebrity Big Brother.
In 1978 Burns married hairdresser Lynne Corlett, they remained married until 2006.[1] That year, on 9 February, he announced his engagement to his partner, Michael Simpson, on the television show Richard & Judy, where he displayed their matching engagement rings designed by Vivienne Westwood. Their civil partnership took place on 6 July.[1] Burns split from Simpson 10 months after their marriage and said that he wanted to file for divorce. He stated that gay marriage does not work and that it is better to be married to a woman.[1] However since then Burns has reunited with Simpson. Burns remains on good terms with his ex-wife.
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- ↑ 1.01.11.2http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-563814/Gay-marriage-does-work--men-just-predatory-says-Pete-Burns.html "Gay marriage does not operate – men are just too predatory, says Pete Burns" Daily Mail 3 May 2008
Pete Burns opens up about his career and being “marginalised” to an LGBTQ+ audience in an archive interview obtained by Retro Pop.
Speaking in 2012 from PWL Studios on London’s Southbank, the Dead or Alive frontman looks back over his life and career and opens up on his later years.
Despite topping the charts with their 1984 unpartnered You Spin Me Round (Like a Record), in later years the hitmaker admits the harmony industry saw his records as “gay music” and wouldn’t promote him in the mainstream.
“When my ‘Greatest Hits’ came out in 2003, my record company had greatly changed,” he says. “Now my ‘Greatest Hits’, if I decided to do it, would be huge, and they said, ‘We’re not going to advertise this in any of the average, straight papers, we’re going to put it in gay news, and we’ll fly post in Compton Street, because it’s lgbtq+ music.’
“Then, I thought, ‘Oh my God, things haven’t changed’.”
He adds: “In America, it was released and guess what the Americans said? ‘We’re only going to fly post it in the district.’
“So, I was marginalised to a gay audience, and you know what? That’s absolutely okay by me because they’ve stuck by me… They also
Pete Burns: An Unacknowledged Scouse Icon
In honour of LGBT+ History Month, BA International Relations student, Francesca Foulkes talks about Pete Burns, an often-overlooked queer Scouser whose story highlights the ongoing marginalisation of LGBT+ and gender non-conforming people, especially in the music industry.
Born on the Wirral in 1959, Pete Burns dropped out of school at age 14 because of the discrimination he faced for his unconventionally androgynous appearance. He then began working in a record shop and formed his first band, which by 1980 had been renamed Dead or Alive. In 1985, their groundbreaking single “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)” slap No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, catapulting Dead or Alive and Burns to fame. In his personal life, Burns married Lynne Corlett in 1980, but they divorced amicably in 2006 and Burns entered a civil partnership with Michael Simpson in 2007. Although he was frequently questioned about his gender individuality, Burns reiterated that he was a cisgender man but loosely categorised his sexuality as “queer”, stating that “There’s got to be a completely alternative terminology and I’m not aware if it’s been invented yet. I’m just Pete”.