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CYNIC HERO ON BEG GAY A METAL BAND
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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.
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Why Gay Is Metal: Pnick has sce spl om Christiany, and now choos to intify as “agnostic.” 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?—-[youtube:v=eJfvwMweUPA]4. Like, you know, ts and ass.”Why Metal Is Gay: Shamay’s mic is so aggrsive, has at tim rced male metal fans to whg over sexism.
His name is Roddy Bottum, and you’ve got to rpect that.How He Came Out: Bottum me out 1993.Why Metal Is Gay: Bottum wrote”Be Aggrsive”, a song about performg oral sex on a man. What do that say about metal?How He Came Out: In a1998 terview wh MTV.Why Gay Is Metal: “There are still stereotyp that all gay men are effemate and weak and queeny,” Halford has said. In 2006, Gaahl spent 9 months prison for “torturg a man for six hours while llectg his blood to a cup and threateng to make him drk .” Gaahl matas that the blood-drag was performed self-fense.How He Came Out: Gaahl nfirmed his homosexualy metal magaze Rock Hard‘s November 2008 issue, after some tractors threatened to offer “rmatn” that would make Gaahl appear a “whole new light.” “It seems like I’ve pre-empted a few people.