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Contents:
- TOP 5 GAY METAL INS
- IT’S SCIENCE. METAL MICIANS AND FANS ARE GAY
- THE MYSTER ORIGS OF THE FOLDG FAN IN GAY CULTURE
TOP 5 GAY METAL INS
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As a queer metal fan, I’d never experienced homophobia club shows or ncerts. In fact, most of my experienc were posive: a fan yellg homophobic slurs rried out of the venue by other fans at an Ozzft stop, genrqueer fans populatg KMFDM and Rammste ncerts, bands onted by trans sgers openg for Mistry.
), I also wonred what metal performers, cinc or stori queer fans remembered as explicly homophobic. My survey “Queer Fans of HM” asks who the most homophobic performer, band, or metal event they know of is, and what they remember about that choice.
Here are the top three Most Homophobic Heavy Metal, as fed by the surveyed queer fans. Rock Agast Homosexualy. In 2008, the album “Smashg Rabows: Rock Agast Homosexualy” was released by Fetch the Rope rerds.
IT’S SCIENCE. METAL MICIANS AND FANS ARE GAY
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In this song by Arghoslent, the songwrers lk Judaism wh sodomy and homosexualy, and suggt that the aths at Flossenberg were jt. “May homophobia outlive all, ” is the last le of the song. While Vikern is well known for his outspokenns about the Christian church, he is not as well-known for homophobic ments or actns.
THE MYSTER ORIGS OF THE FOLDG FAN IN GAY CULTURE
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So why is Varg nsired one of the most homophobic metal performers by queer fans?
First, om prison Vikern suggted that Euronymo was gay (and a Communist) and that was one of the reasons Vikern killed him. Euronymo never “me out” or otherwise suggted he was gay- the only evince seems to be Vikern’ word. But queer fans overwhelmgly intify Vikern as someone who killed a gay man.
Fst was nvicted 1992 of murr for the ath of Magne Andreassen, an openly gay man livg Lillehammer, Norway. As Keh Kahn-Harris has discsed on his blog “Metal Jew, ” while Fst has discsed his time prison, he’s ma ltle if any ments about his homophobic crime. The ra of evil arsonist and murrer of closeted gay men is one that Varg wouldn’t ny bee feeds his fame and his pose.