For Gay Pri Month, Billboard asked artists about the realy of beg out micians hard rock/metal and the state of LGBTQAI acceptance the genre.
Contents:
- LDSEY GRAHAM DENI HE’S GAY IN RPONSE TO CHELSEA HANDLER’S ‘NATNAL COMG OUT DAY’ TWEET
- BRENT RIVERA – B, IS HE GAY? HERE ARE FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW
LDSEY GRAHAM DENI HE’S GAY IN RPONSE TO CHELSEA HANDLER’S ‘NATNAL COMG OUT DAY’ TWEET
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For Gay Pri Month, Billboard asked artists about the realy of beg out micians hard rock/metal and the state of LGBTQAI acceptance the genre. Jason Rivera of Gaytheist.
For Gay Pri Month, Billboard asked artists about the realy of beg out micians hard rock/metal and the state of LGBTQAI acceptance the genre.
Below, Jason Rivera discs his experienc as ontman for Gaytheist.
BRENT RIVERA – B, IS HE GAY? HERE ARE FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW
Senator Ldsey Graham addrsed any speculatn that might be lgerg about his sexualy, on Friday, October 12, sistg once and for all a TMZ terview that he is fact not gay — spe of whatever imprsn he may have given off to lead Chelsea Handler to believe otherwise. Handler has drawn a firtorm of cricism om Sen. Graham’s supporters and members of the LGBTQ muny alike, for g a tweet that she put out memoratn of Natnal Comg Out Day to simultaneoly sha closeted Republins who might have been celebratg the ocsn on the down low. * jesse rivera gay *
The name of his punk metal band boldly clar both his sexualy and his stance on spirualy: Gaytheist. In terms of beg a gay punker, Rivera says he hasn’t enuntered much ristance — “We’re the Northwt, and we do have our betiful liberal bubble up here” — but the Portland tr’s moniker has raised eyebrows among those ncerned about appropriatn of gay culture.
“Once I started Gaytheist, some of the ial issu were like, ‘Should you guys really have that name if none of you are gay? “That’s where beme like, ‘Oh, well, I’m gay and an atheist, so I do feel I have a right to the name. ’ ” Once people realize this, they ually don’t have a problem wh , and he not that he hasn’t much alt wh “the oppose spectm of that, which would be people who were offend bee they had a problem wh gays or atheists.
Such tolerance is a notable difference pared wh a few s ago, where beg gay hard rock/metal “was a big al. Every time anyone was gay a band, was pretty much the only thg that band would get asked about, ” rells Rivera.