Tom Dare’s hilar podst celebrat what he lls a ‘really gay’ scene – and has tackled s homophobia
Contents:
- GAY METAL MIC
- GAY MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS BOOKS
- METAKNIGHT IS GAY
- “IN THOSE DAYS, YOU DIDN’T TALK ABOUT THOSE KD OF THGS”. ROB HALFORD'S REACTN TO BEG METAL’S FIRST GAY IN
GAY METAL MIC
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Back November, the Hell Bent for Metal podst (HBFM) put out their first episo, lled Gay Satanic Love Songs. If you’re worried that they played their tmp rd too early, this was followed by an edn entled BDSM Gear and Black Metal, and another named Horny German quickly beme clear what you were gettg: ’s gay, ’s about heavy metal, and ’s very, very funny. As a gay rock fan, HBFM founr and -host Tom Dare’s hope was to be visible to other LGBTQ+ lovers of heavy mic, and to offer a queer perspective that he felt was missg om a scene that is still affected by one episo, they discs July by Swedish band Katatonia, a song whose genr-ntral lyrics chime more wh him than the ual heteronormative love songs.
“I know some people thk Manowar look gay, but I n be more specific about , ” he says. “I n go, ‘This b looks gay, and that b looks gay, and those boots …’” He lghs.
GAY MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS BOOKS
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“Basilly, metal is really fuckg gay.
“Before I started , I knew there were other gay metal fans out there, but I didn’t know who – I knew about three other people, ” he says. The list of gay artists he uld ve on the show isn’t long, eher.
After namg Judas Prit sger Rob Halford, metal’s most obv and inic gay star (“He’s not jt gay, he’s ‘I like wearg assls chaps’-gay”, says Dare), most fans would probably stggle to name a the podst, a flashpot for fans to fd one another.
METAKNIGHT IS GAY
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“I don’t want to talk about homophobia, ” says Dare. ” But he felt there was no choice but to react to , an episo bluntly named Inter Metal’s Homophobia Problem, rerd followg the announcement of the but album by Man on Man, found by Fah No More’s gay keyboardist Roddy Bottum. “To have someone om a band like Fah No More gog, ‘I’m gonna do a rerd about how I like fuckg my boyiend’ – for the gay muny that’s, like, ‘Y!
’”Fah No More keyboardist Roddy Bottum, whose new band Man on Man has sparked a homophobic reactn Photograph: Olly Curtis/Future/Rex/ShutterstockBut beyond that gay muny, the sight of two men embracg one another the vio for Man on Man’s sgle 1983 provoked a different reactn. ” And, really, what’s not metal about Horny German Werewolv or Gay Satanic Love Songs? That is some gay, gay metal, man.’”.
“IN THOSE DAYS, YOU DIDN’T TALK ABOUT THOSE KD OF THGS”. ROB HALFORD'S REACTN TO BEG METAL’S FIRST GAY IN
In turn, those attus would later sour and warp to some homophobic sub-genr, as lser purveyors of metal dabbled outright hate speech. “Don’t be ceived, homosexualy is a s,” lead sger Mike Reynolds wrote on Twter. “No such thg as a gay Christian.”.
For Pri Month, I'd like you all to know that the entire reason heavy metal adopted the leather and chas look was bee then-closeted gay man and Judas Prit ontman Rob Halford troduced the style based on what was vogue at Brish gay clubs the 70s. More than ocsnally, that new swagger me to exprs self as homophobia. Key to that project was Helot Revolt, a hair metal avant-gar group led by the openly gay Jack Dubowsky.
“I would never have thought as a gay teen I’d be a band that would be nsired heavy metal or hard rock,” Bottum told The Advote, simply. As Terrorizer noted the early two thoands and tens, every story the se published about doom-layered metal act Death — a band wh two gay members, dmmer Sean Reert and guarist Pl Masvidal — was met wh homophobic ments om key members of the fanbase.