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Contents:

• TOP 5 GAY METAL INS
• WHY THE ONLY OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL SUPERSTAR, JUDAS PRIT'S ROB HALFORD, HID HIS SEXUALY
• 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• LGBTQ+ BANDS: OUR TOP 10 FAVORE GAY BANDS
• GAY METALRE MIC

TOP 5 GAY METAL INS

Gay is a fun project by a swiss electronic producer.2. As the volist and bass player for the semal proggy metal-tged hard rock band Kg’s X, Doug Pnick me out 1998, durg an terview wh the Christian magaze, an irony due to the spirual and upliftg nature of the mic and lyrics which attracted many Christian fans who were agast homosexualy. But spe this vlent past, he has been an open homosexual wh no reluctance or remorse, and 2010 even won Gay Person of the Year Bergen, Norway.

Before Cynic both Reert and Masvidal played as members of the legendary band Death, wh the one and only Chuck Schulder, and durg this time, and their time wh Cynic, they most likely led double liv as secretly homosexual mal a predomantly macho male extreme metal aggrsive ttosterone filled mil scene. Led by openly gay ontman, volist Gary Floyd, the band broke up 1986 but was revived aga 2004. At, Texas-based hardre punk band MDC might be known by different nam cludg Millns of Dead Cops, Multi-Death Corporatn, Millns Of Dead Children, and Millns Of Damn Christians, but sce the begng of the band, 1979, the one nstant has been the antic, charismatic ontman Dave Dictor, who has ed the fury of punk to sg agast racism war, rporate ntrol, and favor of animal and human rights, equaly for gays, mori, and women.

Sce then the band has been ragg on agast homophob, palists, and racists g the force of hardre punk. Lookg back, wh the black tight leather, chas, and suggtive lyrics, ’s no surprise that Halford is a gay man, and proud of .

WHY THE ONLY OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL SUPERSTAR, JUDAS PRIT'S ROB HALFORD, HID HIS SEXUALY

Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected public official the untry, famoly said: “I would like to see every gay doctor e out, every gay lawyer, every gay archect e out, stand up and let the world know. That would do more to end prejudice overnight than anybody would image.” His words turned out to be prophetic, as recent tim have seen more and more proment people e out as gay, lbian and bisexual, and the tremendo victori for the LGBT muny repealg Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, as well as legalizatn of gay marriage 17 stat and the District of Columbia. In 1989 Skid Row's Sebastian Bach famoly sported one of the most horrible t-shirts history spoutg anti-gay sentiment.

40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

Perhaps most famoly, 1998, Rob Halford of the legendary band Judas Prit was one of the first heavy metal stars to publicly e out as gay.

LGBTQ+ BANDS: OUR TOP 10 FAVORE GAY BANDS

Other openly gay heavy metal stars clu Doug Pnick of Kg's X, Otep Shamaya of Otep and Gaahl of Goroth. Greg Puciato of the Dillger Espe Plan has been very outspoken agast anti-LGBT bias and favor of gay rights.

Early hardre punk rock in Bob Mould of Hker Du is openly gay; Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day has e out as bisexual; more recently, Lra Jane Grace of the punk rock band Agast Me! Legendary Bad Bras was famoly exmunited om the hardre scene bee of their cendiary ments directed at openly gay hardre band Big Boys. Sce the human sexualy analysis generally ns along the l of “that band is fuck’ gay, ” ’s no surprise that metal micians who self-intify as gay are difficult to e by.

So difficult to e by, fact, that our list isn’t so much the Top Five Gay Metal Ins as The Five Gay Metal Ins. Why Gay Is Metal: Pnick has sce spl om Christiany, and now choos to intify as “agnostic.

GAY METALRE MIC

” Maybe he jumped ship bee beg gay isn’t Christian; maybe he did bee Christian isn’t metal.

But if gay isn’t Christian, and Christian isn’t metal, isn’t gay kda metal?