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Contents:

• LGBTQ+ BANDS: OUR TOP 10 FAVORE GAY BANDS
• ENOLA GAY
• PINK-802: VERMONT'S 'SUPER GAY' FEMME PUNK ROCK BAND
• GAY PUNK MIC
• TOP 5 GAY, BI, AND QUEER MEN POP PUNK

LGBTQ+ BANDS: OUR TOP 10 FAVORE GAY BANDS

But the scen stggled wh homophobic, sexist and racist elements. Queerre and rt grrrl risted opprsive homonormative tennci found mastream LGBT anizg. Pansy Divisn, "Fem a Black Leather Jacket" Fun-lovg Bay Area gay rock mastays Pansy Divisn brought homopunk to the mass when the group toured wh Green Day the 1990s.

And not to religate old wounds, but BBC also reportedly banned Shelley’s solo sgle “Homosapien" 1981 for s blatant referenc to gay sex. Along wh Big Boys, The Dicks were one of At’s flagship punk bands the 1980s and one of the few ntenrs the genre wh an openly gay volist. The band members, all openly gay, specifilly sought to unteract stereotyp, but that didn’t stop their sexual orientatn om beg a hot-button issue the mic muny.

The band also did a ver of Pete Shelley’s “Homosapien. 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.

ENOLA GAY

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.

Led by openly gay ontman, volist Gary Floyd, the band broke up 1986 but was revived aga 2004. At, Texas-based hardre punk band MDC might be known by different nam cludg Millns of Dead Cops, Multi-Death Corporatn, Millns Of Dead Children, and Millns Of Damn Christians, but sce the begng of the band, 1979, the one nstant has been the antic, charismatic ontman Dave Dictor, who has ed the fury of punk to sg agast racism war, rporate ntrol, and favor of animal and human rights, equaly for gays, mori, and women. Sce then the band has been ragg on agast homophob, palists, and racists g the force of hardre punk.

Lookg back, wh the black tight leather, chas, and suggtive lyrics, ’s no surprise that Halford is a gay man, and proud of . ” Gay people have few legal rights and the ernment don’t protect members of the LGBTQ+ muny agast btal attacks.

PINK-802: VERMONT'S 'SUPER GAY' FEMME PUNK ROCK BAND

Speakg to Teen Vogue via Zoom om her apartment Warsaw, Kamska scrib wnsg rs and tcks drivg through the cy wavg banners featurg slogans like “gays are pedophil” and blastg rerdgs of homophobic propaganda outsi squats that wele young queer people.

GAY PUNK MIC

Queerre — a play on hardre — was a movement of radil gay punks who sparked an explosn of mic, lerature, film, and art that changed the face of punk rock and gay activism alike. Unrground z produced on Xerox mach and mailed pla, brown envelop uned gay kids across the untry and gave them power, muny, and solidary.

TOP 5 GAY, BI, AND QUEER MEN POP PUNK

S, which, among other thgs, published a “homore top 10 list. ” Jon and LaBce wanted to parody pop culture journalism, so they wrote about a full-fledged queer punk movement takg over Toronto, pictg as an amazg, racially diverse scene of gays and lbians, drag queens, punk bands, and anarchists, even though the real scene was much smaller than that. ’s and Homore and G.

“I would have no reer whout Homore, ” Hanna says the book. ”The cultural explosn that emerged om the gay punk scene clus lumari like John Waters, Dennis Cooper, Eileen Myl, Lynn Breedlove, Jayne County, the first openly transgenr rock and punk mician, as well as bands like the Subtonix and the Germs, to name a few.

”By the mid-to-late ’80s, AIDS had vastated the gay muny.