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"Gay marriage doesn't work" - Pete Burns

Posted in: International Daily News
By GayNZ.com News Staff - 6th May 2008

UK pop singer Pete Burns says he's "learned the hard way" that gay relationships are "a total joke" and has split from his civil union partner Michael Simpson.

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Pete Burns & Michael Simpson in happier times (last year)

Just ten months after their elaborate civil partnership ceremony, Burns, 49, says he was happier being married to a woman, describing gay relationships as a "commercial break" compared with the "full movie" of marriage.

He also claimed there was too much "promiscuity" in the gay community for civil partnerships to thrive, reports the Daily Mail.

Burns accused Simpson of being unfaithful and admitted he felt disillusioned. Burns added that some gay couples had "open marriages" where the partners could be unfaithful.

He said: "There's a lot of promiscuity in the gay community. I don't understand why they take that union. How low is their self-esteem?

"One's on Hampstead Heath meeting men, the other one's hiring rent boys. Surely marriage is throwing anchor and saying, 'This is where I'm staying, I've made my choice and this is all I want because I've been on the up and down escalator, through the revolving door and I want to stand still.' That's what I expected."

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