When we thk of “gay” terms of metal – if is not beg ed an unflatterg ntext – is referrg to one of four or so micians (sorry, but Kg’s X is not metal). Do that seem like a small percentage of metal micians? Y, though you have to take to
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They are often distilled down to merely “trans metal artists”; worse they face homophobic and transphobic hatred om the more close-md sectns of the extreme metal muny.
Fah No More’s openly gay keyboardist Roddy Bottum wrote a song om their perhaps bt-known rerd Angel Dt lled ‘Be Aggrsive’ which tailed male-on-male sex acts. Shortly after Cynic guarist Pl Masvidal me out as gay 2014, alongsi the band’s dmmer Sean Reert, he received a letter om a fan who revealed that Masvidal’s g out had ma him rethk his homophobia. It led him to qutn how bad beg gay uld be if that was how his favoure guar player intified.
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Homophobia metal is tied to what some see as hypermasculy.
When Mache Head put out their fourth rerd Supercharger, Slayer’s Kerry Kg sulted ontman Robb Flynn’s vols g a homophobic slur.
Greg Puciato, ontman of The Dillger Espe Plan, is a notably vol advote for LGBT rights and has cricised particular homophobia metal. Misogyny and homophobia share some DNA based on the stereotype of gay men appearg emasculated and therefore lser. Puciato mak a pellg pot, then, that the homophobia metal is tied to what some see as hypermasculy.