Pete Townshend , iconic guitarist of The Who , believes he was pansexual at one point in his life, but does not identify that way currently.
In a conversation about the album The Who Sell Out, released in 1967, the musician explained the vision of masculinity addressed in tracks like "I'm a Boy," which discusses "the idea of masculinity and the way men are seen" in a repressive society with a plurality of sexual orientations.
“Being gay, being pansexual, as I think I probably was, but I’m not anymore,” he told Rock Cellar Magazine . “I think I was ready to fall into bed with anyone who wanted me (laughs).”
In the 1960s, the United Kingdom had strict laws to punish sexual involvement between people of the same sex. "I think I forgot that homosexuality was still illegal in the UK [at that time], so these escapades had to be expressed in humorous and ironic vignettes," Townshend .
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