What is Stephen Gately?
[[File:Stephen Gately 2009.jpg|thumb|200px|Gately in June 2009]] '''Stephen Patrick David Gately''' (17 March 1976 – 10 October 2009) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[pop music|pop]] singer-songwriter, actor and dancer. He was the co-lead singer of the pop group [[Boyzone]] with [[Ronan Keating]]. With Boyzone, Gately had a record-breaking sixteen [[single (music)|singles]] in a row enter the top five of the [[UK Singles Chart]]. He also wrote the children's book ''[[The Tree of Seasons]]''. It was released in May 2010, seven months after his death. Gately was born in [[Sherriff Street]], [[Dublin]]. He was [[openly gay]]. On 10 October 2009, Gately died at his home in [[Andratx]], [[Mallorca]], in the Spanish [[Balearic Islands]]. He was 33. He died due to a [[pulmonary oedema]] caused by a heart condition that was not [[diagnosis|diagnosed]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/oct/13/stephen-gately-boyzone-postmortem-results|title=Stephen Gately died of natural causes|author=Topping, Alexandra|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=13 October 2009|access-date=16 May 2021}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category|Stephen Gately}} *{{Official|https://web.archive.org/web/20051224135311/http://www.stephengately.co.uk/}} *{{IMDb name|id=0309519|name=Stephen Gately}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gately, Stephen}} [[Category:1976 births]] [[Category:2009 deaths]] [[Category:Children's writers]] [[Category:Gay men]] [[Category:Irish LGBT people]] [[Category:Irish pop singers]] [[Category:Irish singer-songwriters]] [[Category:Irish stage actors]] [[Category:LGBT dancers]] [[Category:LGBT singers]] [[Category:LGBT songwriters]] [[Category:Tenors]] {{bio-stub}}