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THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF INDIE ROCK

Wilkson, an out gay athlete, helped New Zealand to s first-ever WWC w, all ont of a home crowd. * gay history instagram *

They me up the llege town of Athens, Geia, performg clubs wh a gay clientele and makg e of the Universy of Geia library to fd queer liberatn texts. M., and troduced a new generatn to the Velvets via live was a move that David Bowie had ed more than a earlier, at a time when punk and gay culture were mglg the UK unrground.

Through Bowie (and other early glam rockers), there was a brief moment when the transgrsive athetics of VU found s way to postwar Brish rock, turng to somethg glamoro, lasciv, 1978, a year after releasg the UK’s first DIY EP The Spiral Scratch, the Buzzcks appeared on the popular mic show Top of the Pops, their ontman Pete Shelley gayg up the stage whout the y of glam or theatril drag.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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In 1981, the BBC banned Shelley’s synth-pop love letter to anal sex, “Homosapien, ” and the culture surroundg die took a more censor turn. The sound was easily dified by journalists; s punk and ’60s rock fluenc siarly spired bands across the scene, rultg a relatively homogeno and chaste style. (Journalists at the time generally failed to notice the herent gayns of Morrissey’s Osr Wil idolatry, stead terpretg as heterosexual sensivy.

)“I n’t thk of one rock artist who has been gay and proud, erotic and liberatg— seizg the airwav and givg the boys boners, ” Adam Block wrote rponse to this culture shift, his 1982 say for The Advote, “Confsns of a Gay Rocker.

Through muddy distortn, Mould often sang of self-hatred, of lovers lost, and he was keen not to be seen as a “gay mician. Pansy Divisn, who formed San Francis around 1991, are oft-billed as the world’s first gay alternative rock band and creded wh briefly liftg queerre to the mastream.

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Kev Maxen, assistant ach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, is the first openly gay ach of a U.S. men’s profsnal league sport * gay history instagram *

Inspired by Buzzcks and the Ramon, Pansy Divisn—prised solely of gay men—“wanted to be explic bee seemed like there was no one else was gog to be, ” says sger/guarist Jon Goli, addg: “You know, fuckers like Morrissey, who would jt always tease . ”Queerre—a gay offshoot of punk, post-punk, die—began mid ’80s Toronto when two ze-makers Xeroxed illtratns of rock stars engaged gay eroti, cludg a jockstrap-wearg Anthony Kiedis. “I didn’t thk or know if I was gay; datg Cor was jt somethg that had happened, ” Brownste later wrote her memoir.

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In 2001, Ontar’s Joel Gibb found Hidn Cameras, a self-fed “gay folk church mic” act that helped revive the cy’s perishg die rock scene wh sexually lasciv live shows.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Rock’n’roll is very gay, very flamboyant, very unapologetic. Horn of Plenty reprented a fleetg moment of horns wh the Grizzly Bear ovre, while ontman Ed Droste’s sexualy was curly downplayed by the mastream prs, an attu he partially attribut to makg his gayns so brazen om the outset; he never had his own “g out” moment.

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