"I was mistaken for gay at a Bowie concert once because of my flamboyant dress and friendly manner," Iggy Pop once recalled, "and a bunch of California toughs beat the shit out of me! Fifteen stitches. I thought to myself, 'So this is what it's like.'"

["I've never had a gay experience," Pop once reported. "Two or three times, excited gay friends wanted to, like, nibble my nuts -- generally when I was passed out or distracted. And then I'd go, 'Hey! Bruce! Cut it out!'... The gayest it got is some guy approaching my scrotum with oral intent."]