Red Hot Chili Pepper's Flea experimented sexually with men as a youngster - CANOE

Red Hot Chili Peppers rocker Flea experimented sexually with other men before realizing he was straight.

The musician, real name Michael Peter Balzary, and his bandmates built a fanbase among Los Angeles’ gay community in the 1980s due to their raunchy stage antics, and have long been supporters of LGBTQ equality.

In a new interview with The Guardian newspaper, Flea revealed he experimented himself as a youngster, but left details out of his new memoir Acid for the Children as he didn’t feel they were essential to his life story.

“I didn’t want it to be sensationalized,” he said. “To me, it wasn’t a big deal. I was experimenting and it turns out, ‘hey, I’m not gay’. So, it’s not really my story.”

Early in their career, in 1984, the Chili Peppers posed for the Los Angeles-based gay porn magazine In Touch, an unusual career move – but one that Flea says was down to many of their earliest fans being gay.

“I felt honoured that they wanted us in the magazine,” Flea said. “The gay community in Los Angeles were the first ones to really embrace the Chili Peppers.”

Acid for the Children is available from Tuesday.

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November 04, 2019 at 10:58PM