Matt Healy is on the cover of the latest issue of Attitude Magazine, out now.
Here’s what the 30-year-old The 1975 frontman had to say…
On how the first kiss he ever saw was between two men: “My mum’s crew was kind of the gay ‘Illuminati’ of The Groucho [Club]. I’d slept in the bar there more times than I can remember by the time I was 15. The first time I noticed a sexy kiss in real life was between two guys. They were my mum’s mates, who were dancers in a show. When I look back, these are really formative experiences for people because it’s what you identify as ‘normal’. I grew up in the gay community. That’s why I think there is my, whatever it is, activism.”
On responding to comments that he put a gay fan’s life in danger when he kissed him during his concert: “My shows are gay and it was the gayest gig I’ve ever done. It was like a release, that they had a place to go to in f–king Dubai. So, it was a massive celebration. … I find who this kid is on Twitter and I start texting his mate, ‘Oh my God, are you all right?’ He replied: ‘What do you mean? We’re in a bar, it was the best night of my life’, and they start sending me selfies. I was like, ‘I read some s–t’, and sent them links to what people were saying. They went on Twitter, saying: ‘Don’t f–king do that’. People just imagine things and present them as fact and it pisses me off.”
On his own sexuality: “I tend not to talk about my sexuality that explicitly because I don’t really have to and all things are subject to change. I’m an aesthete, so I have this objective view of beauty. … I see things as objectively beautiful, so men can be objectively beautiful. Sometimes, I see men and I’m like, ‘F–k me, he’s peng’. Then sexuality gets changed for me because I would, and have, kissed beautiful men, but I don’t want to f–k them. It stops for me when it comes to [sex].”
For more from Matt, head to Attitude.co.uk.
