While we were reading The Daily Mirror, our friend Andy Towle had his eye on The Guardian, which reports that Bloc Party leader singer Kele Okereke has come out of the closet.

Bursting onto the scene back in 205 with their immensely popular, Silent Alarm, Okereke immediately faced questions over his fey-demeanor. As a newbie, Okereke eschewed explanation. Now, with the release of the indie band's next album, A Weekend in the City - a disc (fudge) packed with homoerotic lyrics - he understands that old adage of honesty being the best policy. He tells The Guardian:

I didn't talk about it when I did interviews for the last record because it wasn't an area really reflected in the music; I didn't talk about race for the same reason. Why was that still a discussion point? The only reason it was a discussion point was because of the racial prejudice that exists in the mainstream media.
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I think I'm going to have to. With the first album I didn't think it was essential to the experience. I didn't want to have to talk about it in a tabloid way. It wasn't there in the songs, so why did people need to know? But yeah, there are songs on this record that do feel like they're about desire, longing. So yeah...I am gonna talk about that.

In talking about it, Okereke will establish himself as the first black, Nigerian, gay indie rockstar: quite an accomplishment. He went on to say that he came out to provide a positive example for the world's faglings. And, really, if there were ever a reason to come out, that's it. Well done, sir. Well done...