40 Bt Gay Sgers & Micians Of All Time (LGBTQ+ Sgers)

Contents:

• WHY THE ONLY OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL SUPERSTAR, JUDAS PRIT'S ROB HALFORD, HID HIS SEXUALY
• TOP 5 GAY METAL INS
• GAY METAL MIC
• 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME
• 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

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

Judas Prit ontman Rob Halford has always lived a loud and proud heavy metal life, but only 1998 durg an MTV terview did he bee the first metal in to announce he is gay.

“I thk that every gay person has a bigger story to tell than jt, 'Hello, I'm out, 's me, '” Halford, who turned 69 last month, told me a phone terview ahead of the book’s publitn on Tuday.

He wanted to sce Iron Main sger Pl Di’Anno, and he sported bandanas onstage that were a lor-d ve to gay amid the lorful stori are darker moments, both terms of dtry algs and pecially keepg himself closeted for so long. While a few mastream metal ontwomen like Otep and Lzzy Hale have been open recent years about beg gay or bisexual, Halford remas the only major gay male metal fans are often attracted to the aggrsive and theraptic nature of the genre — ’s a great way to let out pent-up tratn and feel empowered — and many skew more to the right than some of their ins.

TOP 5 GAY METAL INS

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. ”Why Metal Is Gay: Shamay’s mic is so aggrsive, has at tim rced male metal fans to whg over sexism.

GAY METAL MIC

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.

40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

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.

GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME

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. The fact that there are many mic artists who are openly gay is a big step for LGBTQ+ rights, which mak the artists important and fluential.

And that’s why we’re ditg today’s article to the bt gay sgers and micians of all time. And that’s why gay rockstars were so important – and Freddie Mercury was probably the most fluential.

Although Mercury did keep his personal life private, he has been celebrated gay muny for s.

35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

Ricky Mart is the ‘Kg of Lat Pop’, but he is also one of the most famo gay pop sgers.

In one of the terviews, the sger said he was spired by Elton John throughout his life, and he is also a famo gay sger. Eher way, g out as gay was a life-changg (and liberatg) cisn for Ricky Mart, and he is now nsired one of the most fluential LGBT artists the world. He clared he is bisexual the 70s, but he officially me out as gay to Rollg Stone magaze 1992.

However, 2012, he scribed himself as gay, and he has been more open about his private life ever sce. All thgs nsired, Mika’s songs are an tegral part of morn pop mic, and he remas one of the most fluential gay pop stars.