Yes, my first thought too. The likes of him and david bowie were on the leading edge of this fad.
Yeah he hedged quite a bit. There is nothing comical about minor genital mutilation.
I have to disagree at least with respect to Alice Cooper. I don’t recall he was ever into the “gender bending” type of thing.
David Bowie was another thing, and I never could bring myself to accept his work because of it. Sure, I listened to a few songs, but Bowie’s music was not something I ever wanted to dig into because his lifestyle repelled me.
I never got that vibe from Alice Cooper. He was more into the outrageous kind of things that a rocker of his day would use to poke at people to get a reaction, but homosexuality was not one of those things that I recall.
He had a song I remember called “I Love The Dead” which fell into that category. As teenagers, we heard that song and didn’t think he was actually supporting performing sex acts with dead people, we thought it was hilariously shocking, and was obviously intended to shock people. Even in that day, it seemed all showmanship to me.
I didn’t feel that way about David Bowie, Elton John, or Freddy Mercury. I felt they really were pushing their homosexual agenda, it wasn’t just “showmanship”.
That’s my opinion, I know others might feel differently, but I didn’t see him as one of those on the leading edge of this, the same way I saw those others.