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Like so many rappers, Kane wallowed standard-issue homophobia and misogyny on tracks like “Pimp’ A’t Easy, ” but seems clear that Kane reprented somethg that was threateng terms of Black manhood, sex and sexualy. 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.
“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.
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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. “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.
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