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Contents:
- GAY METAL MIC
- TOP 5 GAY METAL INS
- WHY THE ONLY OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL SUPERSTAR, JUDAS PRIT'S ROB HALFORD, HID HIS SEXUALY
- WHY AREN'T THERE MORE OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL MICIANS? TESTAMENT'S ALEX SKOLNICK WEIGHS IN
- GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME
GAY METAL MIC
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There are at least two artists wh the name Gay. Gay is a fun project by a swiss electronic producer. 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.
So difficult to e by, fact, that our list isn’t so much the Top Five Gay Metal Ins as The Five Gay Metal Ins.
TOP 5 GAY METAL INS
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. 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.
WHY THE ONLY OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL SUPERSTAR, JUDAS PRIT'S ROB HALFORD, HID HIS SEXUALY
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” Aga: there’s nothg Christiany hat more than gay. 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.
WHY AREN'T THERE MORE OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL MICIANS? TESTAMENT'S ALEX SKOLNICK WEIGHS IN
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GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME
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