In 1972, he said he’d always been gay; by 1976, he was bi; in 1983, he said he’d only been experimenting; in 1993 he declared, “I was always a closet heterosexual.” J. Bryan Lowder considers how “we for whom queerness is not a phase seem to have two options in terms of how we deal with Bowie’s fraught relationship to our name and our stuff.”