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He was the fourth of five children his father Martin is a former decorator and his mother, Margaret (born 1949) a cleaner. Gately grew up in relative poverty in the poor, working-class Sheriff Street area of Dublin. Tim Teeman of The Times (UK) heralded Gately as a hero of gay rights for his response to being "smoked out of the closet". Brian Boyd in The Irish Times said "Stephen Gatelys death represents the first time that the boyband genre has had to deal with such a tragic situation". He was discovered dead at an apartment he owned with Cowles in Majorca, Spain on 10 October 2009. Upon Boyzone's reformation, Gately featured as part of the first gay couple in a boyband's music video in what was to be his last music video with the band, for the song "Better". He was also the first ever boyband member to do so.
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In 1999, he became one of the first pop stars to come out as gay. Gately wed Andrew Cowles, first in a commitment ceremony in Las Vegas in 2003 and more formally in a civil partnership ceremony in London in 2006.
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In 2008, he rejoined his colleagues as Boyzone reformed for a series of concerts and recordings. Gately went on to appear variously in successful stage productions and on television programmes as well as contributing further tracks to various projects. He released a successful solo album in 2000, after the group's initial breakup, which charted in the UK top ten and yielded three UK hit singles, including the top three hit "New Beginning". He performed for millions of fans globally. With Boyzone Gately had a record-breaking sixteen consecutive singles enter the top five of the UK Singles Chart. All of Boyzone's studio albums hit number one in the United Kingdom, their third and last being their most successful internationally. Wikinews has news related to: Boyzone member Stephen Gately dies at age 33'''Stephen Patrick David Gately (17 March 1976 10 October 2009) was an Irish pop singer, songwriter and actor, who, with Ronan Keating, was one of two lead singers of the pop group Boyzone.