LGBT people in Rock music

[Charger]

Man, too busy with your cars to look out of the window from time to time? 

Perhaps...or maybe men's facial hairs just don't tickle my boat....

[Sabbabbath]

Man, too busy with your cars to look out of the window from time to time? 

Perhaps...or maybe men's facial hairs just don't tickle my boat....

Well, I can see that. In fact I am usually not interested in beards either, except that I find most of them pretty ugly, to be honest. But then, there's so many much uglier things in the world... 

[Zzzptm]

There was also the earring code... "Right ear, wrong ear; left ear, right ear." Meaning, if you're a straight guy and want to sport a single earring, don't put it in your right ear lobe or you'll be putting out a signal that will draw unwanted attentions...

[Sabbabbath]

There was also the earring code... "Right ear, wrong ear; left ear, right ear." Meaning, if you're a straight guy and want to sport a single earring, don't put it in your right ear lobe or you'll be putting out a signal that will draw unwanted attentions...

Yeah, I remember that too. In my school, not a single guy dared to put an erring in his right ear. Man, am I glad to be far away of that school now...

[Billy Underdog]

Well I have to say I obviously have not paid enough attention to gay men's facial hair....pardon my ignorance.

I thought that was mostly the only thing you were paying attention to? How wrong one can be sometimes...

I guess that the "gay mustache" of the 1980ies was the predecessor of what became the "hipster mustache" a while ago

Might be to some degree, as a big part of the whole hipster thing is the "fashion of yesterday", but in that regard i think it's more the hippie facial hair that's the inspiration. Or rather more a late 19th century fashion, as it's more often than not waxed (which the hippie mustaches sure wasn't).
Being accused of being a hipster all the time i can only say to me it's because i don't bother shaving every day. And it actually looks cool. And it's a bit to do with that i like the look of the 60's/70's...

[Zzzptm]

Nowadays, it's pretty much down to saying "I'm gay" to be identified as gay. As time passes, so should any social stigma once associated with being able to express a sexual preference. Most of my generation would not come out as gay in high school, it was just too hostile an environment to be officially gay. In college or afterward, they could arrange things so as to be publicly gay. Austin, Texas was where I went to college and that was a place where people were pretty much free to let all kinds of freak flags fly.

But, even then, there were still highly stereotypical views about how to be properly one way or another. Being openly one way or another was new to just about everyone, and we had to find our way through it all to make sense.

Freddie Mercury passing away because of AIDS-related causes really helped us all to wake up and become more compassionate, if nothing else. As other artists came forward publicly, even if their public statement served only to confirm a suspicion, it helped to chip away at notions that non-conformity was a threat. If we could be different in such a fundamental way and still manage to rock out together, did being different in that way make a difference in other areas of life?

[Billy Underdog]

^^^ That sure did help. Something that doesn't help is that someone like Dave Mustaine is still highly and openly homophobic (because he's a moron, despite being a brilliant musician and song-writer), and to make matters worse, he claims to be in the name of "christianity". Thou shall not judge, yeah right...
Still claims to be a fan of Queen and Judas Priest, though. Just don't understand that one, but now we might be moving into the territories we're touching upon in the Black Metal and Extremism-thread? To be a fan of something/someone you don't necessarily agree with as a person/the actions of as a person.

[Zzzptm]

To be a fan of something/someone you don't necessarily agree with as a person/the actions of as a person.

Well played, Mr. Underdog. Well played. As a reward, I will hereafter not give you crap about liking extreme metal. 

But, I'm afraid my approval comes with a price...

 

^ But, is nevertheless on topic for this thread, when we think about it...

[Billy Underdog]

^ But, is nevertheless on topic for this thread, when we think about it...

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