As part of The Dm’s Marketg and the Margalized Deep Dive, we tch up wh Rob Cheng and Andreas Krasser, who are puttg together the marketg playbook for the 2023 Gay Gam Hong Kong – s first time Asia.
Contents:
- THE DMS’ JONNY PIERCE: ‘BEG GAY LERALLY SAVED MY LIFE’
- THE DMS’ JONNY PIERCE SHAR HIS ‘ABYSMAL THOUGHTS’ ON LOVE, LOSS, AND GROWG UP GAY: 'I WANT EVERYTHG TO JT BE OK'
- JONNY PIERCE (THE DMS) TALKS GAY CONVERSN THERAPY, HIS TE VOICE AND FEAR
- FIVE CLASSICS MOTOWN SONGS FEATURG MARV GAYE ON DMS
- GAY RIGHTS
- THE MARKETG TEAM BEHD THE 2023 GAY GAM SHAR WHAT’S STORE
THE DMS’ JONNY PIERCE: ‘BEG GAY LERALLY SAVED MY LIFE’
Onstage at his first Pri performance, Pierce told the dience, “I ed to pray not to be gay. Now I pray to be more gay. Gay is good.” * the drums gay *
He’s certaly a long way om where he was while dog prs for the band’s but album 2009, when he “full-on lied” about his sexualy to a Sunday Tim reporter who somewhat tsively asked if he or any of his bandmat were gay.
THE DMS’ JONNY PIERCE SHAR HIS ‘ABYSMAL THOUGHTS’ ON LOVE, LOSS, AND GROWG UP GAY: 'I WANT EVERYTHG TO JT BE OK'
Before his reer as a sger took off, Marv Gaye was part of Motown's legendary hoe band The Funk Brothers and played on a number of classic tracks. * the drums gay *
When die-rock band the Dms, led by openly gay sger-songwrer Jonny Pierce, performed this month at the Los Angel Pri Ftival, marked another major personal and profsnal tone for Pierce, who raised a small town by strict, unsupportive, Pentestal preacher parents.
The tth is that for a lot of my life I’ve celebrated homosexualy, but remaed homophobic towards myself.
”After his Pri performance, Yahoo Entertament sat down wh Pierce, age 37, to discs his long and sometim paful journey om beg a closeted kid to out-and-proud queer in, and why he now believ that beg gay ultimately saved his Entertament: For years, you didn’t want to participate any Pri events.
JONNY PIERCE (THE DMS) TALKS GAY CONVERSN THERAPY, HIS TE VOICE AND FEAR
Jonny Pierce: I thk Pri is ultimately a really good thg, but at the same time I don't always feel that my versn of homosexualy is reflected a Gay Pri event self. I thk a lot of tim when people thk of Gay Pri, they thk of the most flamboyant, extreme versn of Pri or beg gay and you know, I jt never felt like accepted that muny. You know, when you're gay kid growg up a hostile environment, you have to get creative about everythg.
If you're gay and you have supportive parents om the get-go that’s great, but that’s not always the se.
I was born a small town New York state, five hours north of New York Cy, to mother and father who happen to be born-aga Christians and have a Pentestal church — stnchly anti-gay. I n say now that I'm not homophobic toward myself, but I thk bee of doctratn for so many years — I went through some therapy tryg to “rrect” what they thought was “wrong” wh me and all of that stuff — even though the ont of your md sometim jt sayg, “I know that's silly, that's bulls***, ” sometim there's still thgs lgerg your sub-sub-nsc you're not even aware of. And so sometim 's wonrful, and if 's not that’s really unfortunate and 's not fair, but you've got to face that and make some real 't your parents rally agast a gay bookstore or somethg crazy like that?
FIVE CLASSICS MOTOWN SONGS FEATURG MARV GAYE ON DMS
My mother went there, saw that there was some like gay books there, and she told them if they didn't remove those books that she'd ll for a town-wi boytt of the store. Be as good of a kid as you n, bee you already have this gay thg gog on and you don't want to make them even more mad.
GAY RIGHTS
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THE MARKETG TEAM BEHD THE 2023 GAY GAM SHAR WHAT’S STORE
I wrote my PR agent and I said, “I really want to talk about when is appropriate and OK and not crazy to close the door pletely on a relatnship your life, where there’s somebody who isn’t supportive of you beg gay, or jt beg who you are? I feel my lifetime I’ve never felt such a palpable, tangible threat to my rights and to other people’s rights around me — not jt gay people, but anyone who’s a mory suatn.
You uld say, “I want to give you the moon, but I also do believe that women should have ntrol of their own body and gay people should be allowed to be married and live wh the same rights as anyone else. If you jt say that you’re antiabortn and antigay, you’re gog to get a lot of Christians votg for you. It was jt really amazg to see, to be a part of his procs of leavg a church that is fundamentally antigay and to make really quick progrs.