LGBTQ+ Band Members For Pride Month

Shelley described himself as bisexual and or fluid thought his life in the public eye. Shelley married two women during his life, which led some people to call his bisexuality a 'phase', one of these people being Shelleys band mate Steve Diggle who said in a 2014 interview "I just think that was a little phase [Pete] was dabbling in back in the early days." Insert eyeroll here.

Shelley thankfully didn't let these kind of views change the way he saw himself and continued to identify as bisexual throughout his life. This idea that anyone in a straight relationship is automatically straight is something straight appearing queer people unfortunately have to deal with all the time.

Shelley's refusal to back down on his sexuality is a great example to everyone that it's no one's place to tell someone else who they are or are not, and that just because someone is in a 'straight' relationship it doesn't mean they are straight or that their place as a member of the LGBTQ+ community is not valid.

Many of the songs Shelley has worked on have LGBTQ+ themes. For example, Buzzcocks' massively famous song Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) is said to be about a man named Francis who Shelley lived with for many years.