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Contents:
- WHY THE ONLY OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL SUPERSTAR, JUDAS PRIT'S ROB HALFORD, HID HIS SEXUALY
- TOP 5 GAY METAL INS
- 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS 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.
TOP 5 GAY METAL INS
Halford was born 1951, and homosexualy was illegal the U. 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.
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.
40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
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?
”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. 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.