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HE BEME METAL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MEGASTAR 1998. WHY IS HE STILL THE ONLY ONE?

Tom Dare’s hilar podst celebrat what he lls a ‘really gay’ scene – and has tackled s homophobia * gay metal genre *

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.

” 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?

LET’S TALK ABOUT GAY METAL: BROJOB

”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 He Came Out: Bottum me out Metal Is Gay: Bottum wrote”Be Aggrsive”, a song about performg oral sex on a man.

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How He Came Out: In a1998 terview wh Gay Is Metal: “There are still stereotyp that all gay men are effemate and weak and queeny, ” Halford has said.

” Gaahl matas that the blood-drag was performed 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. Why Gay Is Metal: Gaahl is “strongly opposed to Christiany, ” and purports to follow a personal philosophy he terms “Gaahlism. ” Aga: there’s nothg Christiany hat more than gay.

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

That is some gay, gay metal, man.’”. 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.

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

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.

“IN THOSE DAYS, YOU DIDN’T TALK ABOUT THOSE KD OF THGS”. ROB HALFORD'S REACTN TO BEG METAL’S FIRST GAY IN

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. Sce then, the subculture still stggl wh pockets of homophobia, those right-wg trolls who refe to accept what has always been the se. He’s also gay.

HE BEME METAL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MEGASTAR 1998. WHY IS HE STILL THE ONLY ONE?

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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.

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Why the only openly gay heavy metal superstar, Judas Prit's Rob Halford, hid his sexualy .

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