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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. “I thk once we were more out as beg gay, publicly, our dienc have bee more gay, which to me is great, ” guarist and pose Keh Strickland told Toronto's fab Magaze. Even if you're not gay.