KISS Icon Comes Out To Paul Stanley: ‘I’m LGBTQ’

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KISS had an iconic co-songwriter for one of their most classic songs, and he bravely came out of the closet to Paul Stanley and the rest of the music business. Co-writer of KISS‘s legendary 1979 track, “I Was Made For Lovin’ You”, Desmond Child was recently interviewed by all-around metal god and rock historian Eddie Trunk. Gene Simmons daughter recently bent over in this sexy Halloween costume.

Child has several songwriting titles to his credit including Aerosmith’s “Dude Looks Like A Lady”; Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On A Prayer” and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts’ “I Hate Myself for Loving You”, just to name a few.

Here, Child discusses how during this particular period, ‘I Was Made For Lovin’ You” was in reality a more polarizing song than originally intended within the KISS fanbase.

As Child states: “We changed the course of pop music with song. We brought heavy rock guitars to dance beat. Around that time is when they invented drum machines. So even when you listen to rock music now, so much of that rock music has synchronized drums, loops, hard guitars and all of that. I think that it was one of those fateful moments [because] I had been experimenting with drum machines at that time.”

Gene Simmons forgot words onstage in this sad video not too long ago. The acclaimed song-writer continued by saying: “I had been telling Paul [Stanley] about it and said that we should do something to a dance beat. Gene [Simmons] hated it from beginning to end. Meanwhile, it is still KISS’ most successful international song to this date.”

Child was then asked by Trunk about his involvement with other A-level artists, such as Billy Squire after the success of KISS and their “I Was Made For Lovin’ You” single. Here, Child explains how alleged LGBTQ discrimination was a factor in him not securing a major producer.

Paul Stanley called out this Gene Simmons ‘sabotage’ last month. Child told Trunk: “I just figured that having hits was good for me, so I just went for it but all the while wanting to have my own solo career and then I got so busy, but then also remember this one thing. Since I’m gay, I never really got the job as producer and there was a real glass ceiling there. Everyone, all the macho rock bands were fine co-writing with me because that’s your equal in that situation. However, the producer, that’s when you really gotta bitch-slap people into shape. No one ever said anything but I had a real hard time.”