Many of the gay mors surroundg Dee Dee Ramone (the Ramon origal bassist) seem to be tied to his obssive attentn to his body, like most micians. However the poll suggts that a big majory (81%) of rponnts don't believe that he was gay.
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- DEE DEE RAMONE GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 81 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE WAS GAY
- RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
DEE DEE RAMONE GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 81 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE WAS GAY
Satyrs Motorcycle club 1954, the world’s first gay MC based LA. Brando’s rebel style The Wild One didn’t jt b off on post-war US and European teens lookg to imate the badboy attu; also had a huge fluence on gay culture. He beme an in of rebell teens, but also a sexual in for gay culture, partly bee of the bad boy, crimal attu and the ia of the “rough tra” and s attendant dangero sexualy, which many gay men were attracted too.
Luecke explas that this film fluenced multiple ternnected but ultimately separate subcultur, cludg bikers, both gay and straight, rocker-spired juvenile lquents and gay leathermen. So The Ramon were referencg this juvenile lquent rock and roll look wh their leather jackets, a cidly “straight”, street-tough look wh homoerotic nnotatns that would appeal to gay men.
That’s where the gay-for-pay htler thg , ” affirms Luecke. Any Ramon fans faiar wh the track “53rd and 3rd” will know the homoerotic nnotatns the lyrics, wrten by Dee Dee Ramone, which refers to what was then a well-known chicken-hawkg spot for male prostutn New York Cy, known as “the Loop”.
RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
The area was a centre of gay nightlife s before the Wt Village beme proment, and was home to well-known htler bars, most notably Cowboys, Rounds and Red, om the 1970s through the 1990s. In Cool, Luecke tails that prr to the ‘70s, punk was slang for hoodlum – often wh homosexual unrton that hted at gay prostutn and passive prison homosexualy. And a good htler would also know that a “tough” lookg leather jacket would appeal to certa gay men bee nnot lquency and bad boy appeal.
It’s fair to say that the Ramon weren’t necsarily part of gay culture.