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Contents:
- GAY METAL MIC
- TOP 5 GAY METAL INS
- 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
- WHY AREN'T THERE MORE OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL MICIANS? TESTAMENT'S ALEX SKOLNICK WEIGHS IN
- GAY METAL SONGS
GAY METAL MIC
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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. Back November, the Hell Bent for Metal podst (HBFM) put out their first episo, lled Gay Satanic Love Songs.
TOP 5 GAY METAL INS
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If you’re worried that they played their tmp rd too early, this was followed by an edn entled BDSM Gear and Black Metal, and another named Horny German quickly beme clear what you were gettg: ’s gay, ’s about heavy metal, and ’s very, very funny. As a gay rock fan, HBFM founr and -host Tom Dare’s hope was to be visible to other LGBTQ+ lovers of heavy mic, and to offer a queer perspective that he felt was missg om a scene that is still affected by one episo, they discs July by Swedish band Katatonia, a song whose genr-ntral lyrics chime more wh him than the ual heteronormative love songs.
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WHY AREN'T THERE MORE OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL MICIANS? TESTAMENT'S ALEX SKOLNICK WEIGHS IN
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GAY METAL SONGS
“I don’t want to talk about homophobia, ” says Dare.
” But he felt there was no choice but to react to , an episo bluntly named Inter Metal’s Homophobia Problem, rerd followg the announcement of the but album by Man on Man, found by Fah No More’s gay keyboardist Roddy Bottum.