This Judas Priest interview is from the September 1986 issue of Creem magazine. Check out the first thing they ask them right out the gate…
Just so we're on the same page, this is 12 years before Halford came out of the closet, back when even suburban heshers in Maryland wouldn't have thought to call him a fag. Are you not freaking out? It's the first question! That's like if Ed Bradley sat down with the World Trade Center in 1990 and asked them if they'd rather be doused with burning jet fuel or have a bomb made of piss and shit go off in their basement.And look at how he responds, "Well, that's pretty much the way Judas Priest has looked for a number of years, isn't it?" How could no one have known he was gay? Granted this was during the same period of time when Elton John managed to convince the world that he was straight, but still, did all the cocaine short out everybody's gaydar or something? That's the most auspicious non-answer since Rodney Dangerfield tried to distance himself from writing "Stanley the Manly Transvestite."TERRY HANDPS: I have no clue what "abbatoired" is supposed to mean either.
