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No: 10 Stephen Gately Comes Out 1999

by Conor Behan

“Out popstars at the time were rare, but there were none in boybands.”

At just 10 years old in the summer of 1999, I was a youngster with a growing fascination for pop music. My sister had some of their cassettes, but Boyzone weren’t my pop act of choice (What can I say? I was a Spice Girls fan.) Still, I knew the singles and they were a huge player in the ’90s pop scene.

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