He has gone on to score the sequel to that film and the first season of Fred: The Show for the same network. Personal life Bottum revealed his homosexuality in a 1993 interview with Lance Loud for The Advocate. In a 2001 interview in The Advocate, Bottum stated that "I would never have thought as a gay teen I'd be in a band that would be considered heavy metal or hard rock." One of his contributions to Faith No More was "Be Aggressive", a song about oral sex. A 1999 article in The Advocate said of Imperial Teen, "With lyrical allusions to wearing lipstick and male pronouns used to address love objects, Imperial Teen serves up a gay sensibility that ordinarily surfaces only from straight bands like Pulp or Pizzicato Five." Bottum noted "I think there's a resistance from gay artists to go that route just because it's so predictable. But it is annoying to see bands play it as safe as they do these days. That's why something that visually screams as loud as Marilyn Manson is such a breath of fresh air." Before he came out as gay, Bottum was involved in a brief heterosexual relationship with Courtney Love in the early 1980s, concurrent with the time she sang for Faith No More. The two remain friends decades later. Discography References External links Soundtrack.net interview July 22, 2001 1963 births Living people Alternative rock guitarists Alternative rock keyboardists Alternative rock singers American alternative rock musicians American heavy metal keyboardists American male singers American rock singers Catholics from California Faith No More members American gay musicians Singers from Los Angeles LGBT people from California Guitarists from Los Angeles 20th-century American guitarists 21st-century American keyboardists American male guitarists 20th-century American keyboardists 20th-century LGBT people 21st-century LGBT people