Matt Healy regrets kissing male fan in Dubai

By Neil Wilkes, Editor-in-chief

Published: May 11 2020 | 07:09

Last updated: May 11 2020 | 22:29

The 1975 lead singer Matt Healy admits that he felt "pretty irresponsible" after kissing a male fan at a gig in Dubai.

The 1975's lead singer Matt Healy has admitted that he has regrets over kissing a male fan at a gig in Dubai last summer.

The 31-year-old kissed a fan holding the sign 'Marry me?' at the gig, disobeying Dubai's strict anti-LGBT laws.

Having initially adopted a defiant stance over his symbolic gesture, Healy was forced to rethink his actions after fans on Twitter pointed out that he may have endangered the man in question.

"I was going to go down to the police station and hand myself in," Healy told The Sunday Times. "We managed to get out [of the country] that night, at five in the morning. When I got to Japan I was reading about it and I felt pretty irresponsible and then a bit, well, 'F*** that'.

"Of course I'm not going to put people in danger, but I genuinely want to be an ally for people who don't have a voice if I happen to have this big voice in pop culture. Those are the fundamental things I stand for."

On his own sexuality, Healy added: "Straight. Sexuality has been very uninteresting in our world because my grandad is a drag queen, I grew up in the gay theatre community with my mum and we had trans foster kids in the family.

"I'll gyrate or whatever on stage, but my sexuality is very limited to my intimate relationships and my 'performance'. I'd like to just hope that I'm not inherently inappropriate with people and I don't present a sexual possibility in the room."

The 1975's new album Notes on a Conditional Form is due for release on May 22.