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Sce the human sexualy analysis generally ns along the l of “that band is fuck’ gay, ” ’s no surprise that metal micians who self-intify as gay are difficult to e by.

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Judas Prit’s ‘Metal God’ discs the joys of leather, g out as a gay metalhead, and how he keeps 'Breakg the Law' h. * gay heavy metal band *

Why Gay Is Metal: Pnick has sce spl om Christiany, and now choos to intify as “agnostic. ” Maybe he jumped ship bee beg gay isn’t Christian; maybe he did bee Christian isn’t metal. But if gay isn’t Christian, and Christian isn’t metal, isn’t gay kda metal?

”Why Metal Is Gay: Shamay’s mic is so aggrsive, has at tim rced male metal fans to whg over sexism.

His name is Roddy Bottum, and you’ve got to rpect He Came Out: Bottum me out Metal Is Gay: Bottum wrote”Be Aggrsive”, a song about performg oral sex on a man.

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Durg a recent appearance on "The Jasta Show", TESTAMENT guarist Alex Skolnick discsed the fact that there are very few openly homosexual micians the heavy metal scene. Sayg that "the ia of a sger a metal band beg gay" was "shockg" prr to JUDAS PRIEST's Rob Halford g ou... * gay heavy metal band *

How He Came Out: In a1998 terview wh Gay Is Metal: “There are still stereotyp that all gay men are effemate and weak and queeny, ” Halford has said. ” Gaahl matas that the blood-drag was performed He Came Out: Gaahl nfirmed his homosexualy metal magaze Rock Hard‘s November 2008 issue, after some tractors threatened to offer “rmatn” that would make Gaahl appear a “whole new light. Why Gay Is Metal: Gaahl is “strongly opposed to Christiany, ” and purports to follow a personal philosophy he terms “Gaahlism.

” Aga: there’s nothg Christiany hat more than gay.

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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. Around that time, he also me out as gay, which uld have been a risky move sce metal was still led by machismo. Of urse, me beg the gay metalhead fashnista, I uldn’t wa to really extrapolate on that and take to all those glor plac wh the help of my ma guy, [clothg signer] Ray Brown, who’s been wh Prit forever makg the credible works of art.

You publicly me out as gay 1998. There are all different typ of gay people, as there are all different kd of straight people the way that we show ourselv off, how we speak, how we drs. I thk that’s the betiful kaleidospe of life the way manifts self, regardls of whether you’re gay, straight, bi, black, whe, Asian, Lato.

And so, that’s another way that we exprs ourselv the gay muny. Gay metalheads, man, jt e and jo and jt get out and jt have a blast. As the volist and bass player for the semal proggy metal-tged hard rock band Kg’s X, Doug Pnick me out 1998, durg an terview wh the Christian magaze, an irony due to the spirual and upliftg nature of the mic and lyrics which attracted many Christian fans who were agast homosexualy.

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But spe this vlent past, he has been an open homosexual wh no reluctance or remorse, and 2010 even won Gay Person of the Year Bergen, Norway. Before Cynic both Reert and Masvidal played as members of the legendary band Death, wh the one and only Chuck Schulder, and durg this time, and their time wh Cynic, they most likely led double liv as secretly homosexual mal a predomantly macho male extreme metal aggrsive ttosterone filled mil scene. Led by openly gay ontman, volist Gary Floyd, the band broke up 1986 but was revived aga 2004.

At, Texas-based hardre punk band MDC might be known by different nam cludg Millns of Dead Cops, Multi-Death Corporatn, Millns Of Dead Children, and Millns Of Damn Christians, but sce the begng of the band, 1979, the one nstant has been the antic, charismatic ontman Dave Dictor, who has ed the fury of punk to sg agast racism war, rporate ntrol, and favor of animal and human rights, equaly for gays, mori, and women. Sce then the band has been ragg on agast homophob, palists, and racists g the force of hardre punk. Lookg back, wh the black tight leather, chas, and suggtive lyrics, ’s no surprise that Halford is a gay man, and proud of .

Judas Prit ontman Rob Halford has always lived a loud and proud heavy metal life, but only 1998 durg an MTV terview did he bee the first metal in to announce he is gay. “I thk that every gay person has a bigger story to tell than jt, 'Hello, I'm out, 's me, '” Halford, who turned 69 last month, told me a phone terview ahead of the book’s publitn on Tuday. He wanted to sce Iron Main sger Pl Di’Anno, and he sported bandanas onstage that were a lor-d ve to gay amid the lorful stori are darker moments, both terms of dtry algs and pecially keepg himself closeted for so long.

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