Henry Rolls Compar Gay Marriage to Punk Rock

Contents:

• HENRY ROLLS IS ANNOYED THAT PEOPLE THK HE'S GAY
• HENRY ROLLINS: I'M ANTI-DEATH PENALTY, PRO-CHOICE AND I'M FOR GAY FOLKS GETTG MARRIED
• HENRY ROLLINS ON WHY SOME AMERINS ARE SO STRONGLY OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE
• HENRY ROLLS: TOTALLY GAY
• WHY YOU’D NEVER SEE THE CLOSET HENRY ROLLS CAME OUT OF IF HE WERE GAY
• HENRY ROLLS BACKS GAY MARRIAGE IN NEW EDORIAL
• HENRY ROLLS: GAY MARRIAGE IS PUNK ROCK
• THE GAY THG
• HENRY ROLLS: I FEEL BAD FOR PEOPLE WHO STILL OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE
• HENRY ROLLINS: I'M ANTI-DEATH PENALTY, PRO-CHOICE AND I'M FOR GAY FOLKS GETTG MARRIED
• HENRY ROLLS: GAY MARRIAGE IS PUNK ROCK
• HENRY ROLLS: I FEEL BAD FOR PEOPLE WHO STILL OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE
• HENRY ROLLS IS GAY
• IS HENRY ROLLS GAY?
• HENRY ROLLS BACKS GAY MARRIAGE IN NEW EDORIAL
• THE GAY THG
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

HENRY ROLLS IS ANNOYED THAT PEOPLE THK HE'S GAY

October 6, 2004In a recent terview wh Wdy Cy Media Group (Chigo's source for gay news, gossip, entertament, viewpots, and gay bs ncerns), punk rock in Henry Rolls travelled through his early years to the problem that ris at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., and everythg between, while providg a moment of clary an otherwise chaotic world.

Several excerpts om the terview follow:Wdy Cy Media Group: There's a story about when you were high school and a gay kid was tnted by the other stunts and at one pot by a teacher. It's easy to know that beg gay is nothg different than beg straight.

Young, gay and stuck Arkansas? Henry Rolls: "The whole 'Henry is gay' thg was tertg.

HENRY ROLLINS: I'M ANTI-DEATH PENALTY, PRO-CHOICE AND I'M FOR GAY FOLKS GETTG MARRIED

I asked her what she thought about all the 'Henry is gay' stuff and she said, 'Are you kiddg, 's great! Everyone who gets famo is gay for six months!

' So, 's impossible for me to take serly bee 's not a bad thg beg gay. This is maly due to the fact that he don't thk there is anyone as clearly "un-gay" as him. Formerly of the hard-re punk band Black Flag, Rolls is beg repeatedly terviews by homosexual magaz and has thought that his heterosexual relatnships should be more than enough explanatn as to his an terview, Rolls explaed his annoyance, sayg: "I get terviewed by gay magaz at least six tim a year and the first qutn is always, 'Are you gay?

HENRY ROLLINS ON WHY SOME AMERINS ARE SO STRONGLY OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE

I ask why there's such a sire for me to be gay and they say, 'Bee your hair's short, you're shape, you're hot and you're smart. God, if you only saw how un-gay I am. I've never had a homosexual experience - and I uld have had all the on I wanted.

You should jt get rid of , ' the gay rights supporter said. Gay rights supporter: Henry said that the same-sex msage nversatn Atralia is 'below the tellectual quotient' the untry should be havg Henry said Atralia need to pass a law and move on quickly or ntue to receive backlash om other natns. I'm for gay folks gettg married — and someone wants to slug me jt for sayg that.

HENRY ROLLS: TOTALLY GAY

Tom Neely’s HENRY AND GLENN FOREVER ic is a classic mi that envisns two punk ins — Black Flag’s Henry Rolls (once of Black Flag) and Glenn Danzig (once the Misfs) — as a gay uple wh s problems — alg wh jealoy, havg Hall and Oat over for dner.

July 2, 2012Why are some Amerins so strongly opposed to gay marriage? I have never heard the word “gay” ed so much associatn wh any Olympics. This time, the Olympics are super-duper gay.

He let be known that he's not OK wh the gay; then all of a sudn, the Olympics e to his untry and 's on. And so, edians and some of the ually polilly rrect outlets gleefully bash Put, his homophobia and the overall shodds of the Sochi Olympics. But back to the “gay Olympics” thg.

WHY YOU’D NEVER SEE THE CLOSET HENRY ROLLS CAME OUT OF IF HE WERE GAY

Many of the petors are takg a shot at Put's homophobic stance wh rabow uniforms; Google rema s logo wh rabow lors, etc.

HENRY ROLLS BACKS GAY MARRIAGE IN NEW EDORIAL

He knows the tth: Rsia, like everywhere else the world, has a lot of gay people.

It's super-duper gay.

Ameri is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, “Our gays are better than their gays, ” but as far as untri go, we are -your-face gay. We kick ass at gay.

HENRY ROLLS: GAY MARRIAGE IS PUNK ROCK

Send, there are still at least a dozen regrsive dim bulbs who thk homosexualy is perversn. And even some of them are gay.

The state of the unn is more accurately asssed by the reactn to the gay, the non-whe, the female, etc. This tells you where Ameri is far more than the go-team-go – ns of the print's recent SOTU addrs or the realy of Ameri's ultra-gayns. Michael Sam, the All-Amerin former Universy of Missouri football player, recently announced that he is gay.

THE GAY THG

A sport that volv so much tense man-on-man ntact, huggg, relentls ass-slappg and postgame munal nakedns don't e off jt a teensy b gay? Football is at least as “gay” as gby, Gre-Roman wrtlg and the film 300. Oklahoma rtrant owner Gary Jam recently ma news when he went on lol TV news and announced that he don't serve the gay or, oddly, the disabled.

The rtrant is gettg great reviews as the bt gay bar the area. The rt of are way down the road, and some of are gay. How gay?

” ArchivHenry Rolls: The Amerin People Kicked Your Ass, RepublinsHenry Rolls: Gay Marriage Is Punk Rock. The former Black Flag ontman-turned-televisn host and actor has penned a lengthy blog for LA Weekly, which he not only prais Washgton state's recent same-sex marriage victory, but adds that the natn's stance on the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny is "gettg better all the time. As much as the homophob, an ever-thng herd, wh and screech, the earth is shiftg unrneath their feet and thgs are gettg better all the time.

HENRY ROLLS: I FEEL BAD FOR PEOPLE WHO STILL OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE

"He go on to note: "When we all got to punk rock, we learned that we had all kds of people our scene; gay was part of . The fact that there were so many gay people punk bands, I thk, really gave the mic an credible dynamic. "Sayg he "appreciat and admir the day-to-day urage of the gay people I have enuntered the mic world and elsewhere, " he adds, "I have never been put the posn of havg to 'stand up' for my heterosexualy.

Earlier this year, he produced a vio cricizg the actns of anti-gay marriage groups (watch the vio above). “[This bill] seems like a long way to go to please a handful of hicks, but obvly the ernor was losg sleep over all those poor homophob shakg their boots as to who is the stall next to them, and he took actn, ” Rolls wrote.

HENRY ROLLINS: I'M ANTI-DEATH PENALTY, PRO-CHOICE AND I'M FOR GAY FOLKS GETTG MARRIED

’ If McCrory eventually v and tri to repeal , everyone will know ’s bee he valu money over his homophobia, which he has poorly disguised as moral rectu and mon sense. It's such an amazg document and really giv you all the ammo you need to w agast the homophob and the misogynists.

We had gay stunts, at least two gay teachers. C., which has a large gay populatn. When we all got to punk rock, we learned that we had all kds of people our scene; gay was part of .

HENRY ROLLS: GAY MARRIAGE IS PUNK ROCK

I appreciate and admire the day-to-day urage of the gay people I have enuntered the mic world and elsewhere. On the other hand, gay Wyomg? If I am diggg mic om all over the world, performed by mal and femal, gay and straight, then I am screwed on the prejudice ont.

One day, there will be no gay-pri paras bee there simply won't be a need for them. "The fact that there were so many gay people punk bands, I thk, really gave the mic an credible dynamic, " he wr. "One day, there will be no gay-pri paras bee there simply won't be a need for them, " Rolls wr optimistilly the op-ed.

HENRY ROLLS: I FEEL BAD FOR PEOPLE WHO STILL OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE

If I was gay, there would be no closet, you would never see the closet I me out of. Bee I know wh all certaty my md, there is nothg wrong wh beg gay, and you know .

If you're agast gay marriage, jt be hont, put a srlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!

HENRY ROLLS IS GAY

I bet two people of the same sex who want to get married don’t thk they are gog to have a “gay weddg.

You n't listen to him bee some third hand suggts he's gay?

Damn, you mt not get anythg the man's been about for the past 30 Rolls fuckg a guy don't mean he's gay. Brian Gay, Henry Rolls, John Stabb, Ian Mackaye. A ee area for the discsn of issu facg those who intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and all other sexual or nonsexual orientatns and/or genr inti.

IS HENRY ROLLS GAY?

"If I was gay, there would be no closet, you would never see the closet I me out of. Nowadays, there is no answer to the qutn -Henry Rolls is gay?

While folks still say Henry Rolls is gay, their ments hold no nsistency or accuracy of any sort. The g out of Henry Rolls would greatly benef lns of homosexuals around the world who are still the closet.

HENRY ROLLS BACKS GAY MARRIAGE IN NEW EDORIAL

Celebri such as Henry Rolls have not admted they are homosexual, this is bee they are fely not gay or bee they are and should not go public. Regardls of what people may thk, is creasgly mon for people to openly adm to beg gay, even more beg such an sential such as artist Henry Rolls. Do you know any rmatn regardg the qutn - Is Henry Rolls gay?

THE GAY THG

“The brown, the female, the gay—and I felt I was part of that g om mic.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

He c the long-fought battle for gay rights fally achievg the kd of mastream appeal that brgs RuPl to primetime televisn and marriage rights to the Whe Hoe. “The gay-rights movement shows that societi n change, and I thk nnabis is part of that. “It’s right there wh racism and homophobia and misogyny.