Oct 12 2009
And There, He’s Gone
I was enjoying my blogwalking yesterday as my friend updated her Facebook status with news which shocked me then: Stephen Gately was dead.
As a teenage chick of nineties, I remember exact that Stephen Gately was a member of Boyzone, and though I refused to be called as a Boyzone’s fan, but I should admit that I had two of their first albums completely at home, and I argued with my dad coz my dad declined to buy me the third one.
Stephen Gately was the prettiest Boyzone’s member –I’m not kidding ya-, his face was as pretty as a girl.
I’d suspected him that actually he was a wimp, if only he didn’t shock his girl fans at ’99 that actually he was gay.
Stephen Gately performs in the clip of Boyzone's No Matter What.
When I was a teenager I loved collecting pictures of music groups, and my hobby was determining who’s the cutest of them all (what a shallow!).
People said the cutest among the Boyzone was Ronan Keating, though I preferred Shane Lynch (coz of a cheesy reason, I love men with strong mandibles :-p).
Lotta girls loved Stephen Gately coz he’d got a sweet smile, but I was always suspicious to guys with sweet smiles.
Look at his thin smile. A normal guy won't even smile like that.
Stephen confessed that he was gay at ’99 and girls got disappointed.
He had been gay for long time, far before he entered Boyzone, but he admitted later after the group became a hit.
Louis Walsh, the producer who casted the Boyzone’s personnel, didn’t know that Stephen was gay.
He said later that if only he knew it from the start, he might gonna think twice to input Stephen into Boyzone.
It’s not cool if a boys group which created to make girls hysterically, has a member who doesn’t love girls, but prefer boys, is it?
This is an important lesson for any casting manager, next time if you wanna create a handsome artist which targeted girls as his fans, ask him first, “Do you love pussy or Mr P?”
Stephen must’ve known that Boyzone’s created for girl fans, but he insisted to apply.
I think he’s got crushed on the money, though he must suppress his different sex orientation.
Then I ask his motive, should we sell the whole of ourself, including our sex orientation, just for reaching popularity and high income?
I don’t know whether Stephen’s breakthrough as he confessed that he was gay at ’99 made a better condition for him or not. Definitely, another year later, Boyzone split.
Their latest single, Everyday I Love You, hit the chart, but essentially they split.
Stephen made his own solo album, A New Beginning, another year later, and promoted himself in my country.
His management team warned the Indonesian press, not for asking Stehen’s sex orientation. Dunno why.
Stephen Gately and his husband, Andrew Cowles.
Stephen Gately married his gay partner, Andrew Cowles, at ’03.
He died two days ago while he was enjoying vacation at Majorca, Spain.
As I’m writing this, I haven’t got a definite reason of the death.
The dead of Stephen Gately, another storymaker of my teenage age, has just reminded me that another part of my teen side has gone.
