How David Bowie challenged attitudes to sexuality

Society took decades to catch up with Bowie, but that's society's problem

In the shadows at the Manchester Evening News Arena in November 2003

Does the soul know gender? Thinking of David Bowie, I feel like Tilda Swinton opening the V&A exhibition on him some years back. She admitted that she was drawn to Bowie not because of how he sounded, but because of how he looked. I was drawn to Bowie not because of sexuality or identity. It was deeper. Bowie connected with me on a soul level.

He played with everything; we took what we ...