Top 5 Gay Metal Ins - Washgton Cy Paper

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

Gay. 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. 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.

TOP 5 GAY METAL INS

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 THE ONLY OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL SUPERSTAR, JUDAS PRIT'S ROB HALFORD, HID HIS SEXUALY

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. 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.

WHY AREN'T THERE MORE OPENLY GAY HEAVY METAL MICIANS? TESTAMENT'S ALEX SKOLNICK WEIGHS IN

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.

GREATT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME

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.