In an interview with Fox Sports 910 AM‘s “The Freaks With Kenny And Crash”, JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford spoke about the discrimination that the LGBT community still faces worldwide.
Here’s the statement from Rob:
“I just get so frustrated and I get angry that here we are in 2019… I mean, growing up as a kid and suddenly realizing my preferences… Well, it’s not really a preference — it’s who you are. You don’t make a choice. I am who I am. And because of the society that I grew up in, and to a still great extent today, we have this tremendous pushback inequality.
Rob further added:
“I always kind of felt, as I was going through my teen years and my twenties and thirties, things would be better, but they’re not.”
“There’s still a long way to go to America, and in my home country. And in some parts of the world, people like me get thrown off buildings, people like me get hung, just because of who we are. So the injustices that are put against gay people, much like the injustices against people of color, or people that have tremendous difficulties with accepting religions…”
Halford added:
“It’s a crazy world, isn’t it? You’d think that by now we’d have just figured things out and live and let live and love each other and just accept each other for who we are. Life is short.”
Rob added expressed the fear among the LGBT community, saying:
“The thing about gay people is that until we come out of the closet, we’re always protecting other people: ‘I can’t do this, because it’s gonna hurt so-and-so,'” he continued.
“We’re trying to live the lives of other people, and that’s the worst thing you can do. You’ve gotta learn to love yourself and live your own life. Then you can go out in the world and try and figure everything else out.
Judas Priest released a successful record titled ‘Firepower’ which cracked billboards and other charts worldwide. Judas Priest have been on tour for more than a year since the release of the record. Priest main songwriter Glenn Tipton hasn’t joined the band live for more than a few dates since last year. Frontman Rob Halford who quit the band in the 90s started his own project and later returned to Judas Priest in the 2000s. Halford revealed he was gay nearly twenty years ago. Rob has openly expressed his concern over the LGBT community facing criticism worldwide despite the broad social acceptance of homosexuality and the legality of same-sex marriage in some parts of the world.