LOS ANGELES, March 18 (UPI) -- Michael Stipe, the front man for the U.S. alternative rock band R.E.M., has revealed in an interview with Spin magazine that he is gay.
"It was super complicated for me in the '80s," he told the magazine. "I was totally open with the band and my family and my friends and certainly the people I was sleeping with. I thought it was pretty obvious."