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GAY INOGRAPHY: SHACKG UP WH THE B-52S
Punk their subversn of nventn and celebratn of the absurd, they were also fiantly fun at a time when Print Ronald Reagan wouldn’t so much as say the word “gay” or addrs the fact that AIDS was quickly beg a panmic — one that would claim Ricky as one of s earlit high-profile sualti.
Four of the band’s five origal members did, fact, intify as LGBTQ: Ricky, Schneir and Strickland as gay men, and Pierson, who was volved wh a man until the early 2000s, is now married to a woman. “Back then, was lled GRID [Gay-Related Immune Deficiency]. It wasn't jt the big beehive hairdos and thrift-shop cloth that enared the bands to gay dienc.