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267: 246: 188: 126: 277: 95: 64: 212: 112: 136: 480:— this was narrowed to the more specific "gay musicians" by someone else who later refined the general catch-all category into separate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender subcats. I agree that on the available evidence it's hard to make a definite call as to whether "gay" or "bisexual" would be the more appropriate category, but the fact that he 461:, barely a few weeks after civil unions for gay couples were legalized there. All in all, I suppose it's distinctly possible that it was just a bizarre publicity stunt and not an actual acknowledgement of homosexuality or bisexuality on either of their parts, but I find it hard to believe that the first commentor has 398:
Why is he listed as a gay musician? I haven't spent a lot of time following his career, but he has a kid and several known affairs with women. Also, I'm Icelandic and I've met him several times and I just feel it's odd that I never heard of this alleged homosexuality of his...
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439:"Most bizarre of all, however, was the subsequent marriage of Einar Benediktsson and Bragi Olaffson in Denmark in 1989, the first openly gay marriage in pop history." 691: 202: 701: 31:) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or 686: 499: 43: 706: 582: 333: 502: 662: 355:
Reads like the guy reminiscing himself. Totally unencyclopaedic. Maybe a sentence or two of facts in there somewhere. Is it worth wikifying? --
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I removed the theme "sexuality" of the article. Einar is not gay, and have made clear. Fuck the "symbolic marriage" with Bragi.
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Not misrepresent things, homosexuals. Do not force. Rinzen Identity 14:35 26 April 2015
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449:"...Bragi pledged his troth in a gay wedding ceremony to his colleague Einar Orn." 356: 141: 576: 39: 282: 605:. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than 670: 489: 404: 266: 245: 513: 606: 430: 362: 587:
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I happen to know the man and I can tell you that he has wife and kids.
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Assuming this is the same guy, I think this article should mention
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That categorisation (well, its logical predecessor) was added by
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seen a reference before, because to be perfectly honest, I've
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Hey, marriage hasn't got anything to do with sexuality... =S
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I can verify that this is the same guy who was in Kukl.
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