10 Years Of A Gay and A NonGay: Confessions Of A Gay Metal God with Rob Halford

A Gay and A NonGay

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Mental Health, Sexuality, Comedy, Health & Fitness

4.3 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This is a re-release celebrating a decade of love and allyship on A Gay And A NonGay. This week we're throwing it back to November 2020... On this episode, Dan and James are joined by the rainbow of metal, the Metal God himself, Rob Halford, frontman for Birmingham heavy metal legends Judas Priest. Wahey. Rob came out as gay live on MTV in 1998, today we chat about his incredible journey as the gay frontman of one of the biggest heavy metal bands in the world - his coming out, his meeting with Cilla Black at Buckingham Palace and his friendship with Lady GaGa! He offers his support to outsiders in the LGBTQ+ community and this episode is a really important reminder that not all gay people are the same. Get those leathers on and strap in… Follow A Gay & A NonGay TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@gaynongay⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@gaynongay⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@gaynongay⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@gaynongay⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠gaynongay.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email Us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠us@gaynongay.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to A Gay and Anongay, where we are celebrating our 10th anniversary by re-releasing 10 of our favourite episodes.
0:07.8	And I think you all knew this one was coming.
0:10.4	James, of course, was delighted that he got the opportunity to have a full-length conversation with a legendary metalhead, legendary Brumme, and Rob Halfa from Judas Priest.
0:19.7	A Gay and Anongay is a podcast from James Bar and Dan Hudson.
0:23.5	They're like a lovely little couple, except they're not.
0:27.4	Hello, and happy international metal day.
0:30.9	Do you know why it's the 11th of the 11th?
0:32.7	No.
0:33.5	It's because in the film, this is Spinal Tap.
0:37.4	Their amps famously go up to 11. I don't get it. So today in the film, this is Spinal Tap. Their amps famously go up to 11.
0:39.7	I don't get it.
0:40.6	So today on the podcast, we are joined by the frontman for heavy metal legends, Judas Priest.
0:46.4	He is a great ambassador for heavy metal and for the great city of Birmingham.
0:50.3	Wehe!
0:52.5	On the podcast today, metal god, Rob Halford will be joining us.
0:56.7	And actually, James, it's not really a non-gay thing because he's gay.
1:00.4	Yeah.
1:01.0	And I'm genuinely excited about everyone hearing this interview because, as you say,
1:05.2	Rob Halford is gay and there are loads of gay metal fans.
1:08.9	I've met, I don't think I've met any of them actually, but how do there are? And it's wrong for me to think that gay people all only like one thing. But I'm not a fan of metal music, so it is kind of your day today. So Rob Halford on the show today, he came out live on MTV in 1998. We're going to talk about that. He met Silla Black at Buckingham Palace.
1:29.2	He's mates with Lady Gaga.
1:31.5	What?
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