Is Eno gay/bi/straight?
This one used to come up on the newsgroup with tedious regularity. Some people assume that because he preferred a feminine look with makeup and clothing in the early Seventies, it automatically followed that he was gay or bisexual (long hair doesn’t count as it was de rigeur part of the Glam Rock uniform, shifting sideways into the Heavy Metal arena where it still thrives). But you’ve got to see his outrageous appearance in the context of the times he was living in. Sure, the sexual revolution might have begun in the Sixties, but by the early Seventies it still hadn’t really altered much in the way of gender roles. Men were still expected to be the breadwinners, strong manly types. Eno’s response to this expectation was to rebel against it and emphasise the “feminine” side of his nature, which he viewed as the more creative aspect. These days Eno also tends to emphasise parts of the feminine, although in this case he’s using Photoshop on his Mac to enlarge pictures of buttocks and brea
This one used to come up on the newsgroup with tedious regularity. Some people assume that because he preferred a feminine look with makeup and clothing in the early Seventies, it automatically followed that he was gay or bisexual (long hair doesn’t count as it was de rigeur part of the Glam Rock uniform, shifting sideways into the Heavy Metal arena where it still thrives). But you’ve got to see his outrageous appearance in the context of the times he was living in. Sure, the sexual revolution might have begun in the Sixties, but by the early Seventies it still hadn’t really altered much in the way of gender roles. Men were still expected to be the breadwinners, strong manly types. Eno’s response to this expectation was to rebel against it and emphasise the “feminine” side of his nature, which he viewed as the more creative aspect. These days Eno also tends to emphasise parts of the feminine, although in this case he’s using Photoshop on his Mac to enlarge pictures of buttocks and brea
