From Bromance to Sexual Obsession: David Bowie And Mick Jagger

Their magnetic attraction was an open secret

Mick Jagger (1976) on Wikimedia Commons is in the public domain and David Bowie (1974) by Hunter Desportes on Flickr is licensed under CC BY 2.0, both altered by the author

In 1973 you couldn’t just start a family and then become gay. Your sexual curiosity stayed within the limits of adultery, orgies, and heterosexuality. It was taboo to be a faggot, so people rarely talked about their same-sex experiences.