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READER’S CHOICE: THE OPENLY GAY PUNK AND HARDCORE BANDS SUGGESTED BY BETSEY EDITION

 Friday, July 16th, 2010 at 2:00pm by

Earlier this week, I wrote about the gay porno grind band Bear Party; subsequently, our friend Betsey e-mailed me to bring a whopping six other openly gay hardcore and punk outfits to my attention. And so I present to you…

  • FRUIT PUNCH — Easily the best of the bunch, Fruit Punch make really awesome, angry hardcore that isn’t overtly funny or gimmicky. In other words: they’re actually a really good band who deserve to be commended for their music and their message. Check this band out.
  • LIMP WRIST – Like Fruit Punch, if not for the band’s name and imagery, you’d never know they were gay — despite their claim that they’re “gayin up the punx.” Old-school hardcore with a lot of intensity.
  • FAGGOT — The quality of the recordings on their MySpace page is not great, but from what I can hear, they seem like a reasonably straight-forward punk band. By the way: best MySpace URL ever?
  • YOUTH OF TOGAY — Nope, take it back. This band has the best MySpace URL ever. This is basically really catchy comedy-punk, kind of in the vein of Butt Trumpet — only, y’know, totally gay. Brownie points for memorable song titles, like “Butthole of Doom” (with its anthemic cries of “POOP SHOOT IS LOOSE!”), “Put Your Stolen Base in Me,” and “Put Your Stolen Base in Me.” They also did a split with Fruit Punch.
  • GAYRILLA BISCUITS — This band categorizes its music as “happy hardcore,” and that’s an apt description. They released their E.P., Hung Queens Can Suck It, on pink vinyl. Nice.
  • BLACK FAG – - I was listening to this and thinking, “If Fred Schneider from The B-52s sang for a punk band, it might sound like Black Fag,” when I noticed that on their MySpace page, they claim to sound like “Black Flag fronted by Fred Schneider.” So, mission accomplished! Interestingly enough, there’s actually only one black guy in the band. But they all have funny, MetalSucks-ready names: Cher Dykeowski, Liberace Morris, Greg Streisand, etc.

Major props to Betsey for bringing all these bands to our attention! Feel free to suggest more in the comments section.

-AR

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  • robocop420
    • stu1

      Not a gay hardcore or punk band.

      • robocop420

        you say tomato, i say tomatoe

        • BEHEMOHAWK

          Wow.

  • Mongorian

    Que the lame jokes of “Hey u forgot (band I dont like’s name here).

    • M.

      Iwrestledabearonce? they have a transvestite in the band.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Fry/1479546764 James Fry

        Nah dude, that girl is ALL woman. Also, has the more stage intensity then most dudes I’ve seen who claim to be badass. The music, is admittedly meh.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Fry/1479546764 James Fry

          *has more

  • nick

    I am pretty sure boysetsfire were gay, well just the singer maybe it has to be the whole band?

    • stu1

      I believe the singer was bisexual.

  • yetzer hara

    i’ve seen f@ggot play a couple times and they’re great. they played at this shitty little house show, and within 30 seconds of going on stage, the singer had assaulted and removed the trousers of one of the audience members, proceeding to play with his genitalia. it was the closest thing to an orgy i’ve seen happen in live music this side of a genitorturers show.

    f@ggot are also the producers of my favorite t-shirt. it’s white with a big green, ugly, and veiny cock and balls, that is apparently flying through the air (it has wings… think “hermes,” the greek god with wings on his feet) and cumming the band’s name in goopy, dripping letters.

    i also have a couple of their records, and their album art is just as gross and grimy as they are.

  • brandonmetal

    shouldn’t they be called rainbow flag

    • Sickboy666

      That would be redundant.

  • reznik

    why is there not any gay hip hop artist. find one!

    • yetzer hara

      lots of female rappers rap about their girl-on-girl exploits.

    • cougar party

      Check out Gansta F*g. That shit is fucked up!

    • DirtyWarriorMan

      Check out the “bounce” scene in New Orleans. A lot of gay rappers. Some of them call it “sissy bounce,” though some of them find that derogatory. Sissy Nobby and Big Freedia are two of them. I don’t really care for the music (super fast and loud, meant for, well, booty bouncing), but it’s a really interesting subculture.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ben-Robson/1375985482 Ben Robson

      myspace.com/bigggbubbbasparrkkzz

  • Comrade Black

    There are still a few more you are missing.

    Re-Sisters – All Female, german queer crusty punk squatter band. Hard to find but so worth it, they had a 7″ called Riots Not Diets.

    Tribe 8 -The first all queer all female punk band. They have a sorta 90s riot grrrl sound mixed with more queercore sound, but are substantually better and more listenable than most queercore. Unlike many queer punk bands, they were not all white. Their singer Lynnee Breedlove went on to do stand up comedy, and write books, as well as sing in a band I have yet to hear ccalled Stay Away From My Boyfriend (tong and cheek as lynnee now identifies as a transman)

    Homomalitia -excellent anarchist queer punk band from europe.

    also MDC (Millions of dead cops) was often considered queercore cause their singer Dave Dictor, was very openly queer, and crossdressed during shows. They also had songs that talked about his queerness, gender, and polyamory.
    If you also check out a song called The Ode by limp Wrist, it lists off people that were openly queer in older punk bands.

  • Comrade Black

    also there is a all queer female hip hop band, that is very centered in DIY ethos and anarchist politics, called Scream Club. The one member even runs a DIY queercore record lable called Crunks Not Dead

  • http://thenumberoftheblog.com/ groverXIII

    No mention of Pansy Division?

  • savethecirclepit

    I say Limp Wrist is the best of the bunch and this video proves it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICf2uk7RZAM

  • http://shenanitims.wordpress.com/ ShenaniTims

    You can’t forget Gravy Train!!!!

  • Alex_P

    I’M GAY FOR LIMP WRIST.

  • gfactor

    Pansy Division!

    With an album called “nine inch males” it don’t get much gayer. Or better.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrew-Sterner/1335958279 Andrew Sterner

    Hmm, I’m a g\big fan of Black Flag, but without Rollin’s voice…I quickly lost interest in the gay tribute band.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tara-Boes/1424973682 Tara Boes

      rollins wasn’t even the best singer black flag had. lrn 2 ron reyes

  • http://heavystreet.com/ Sat

    No mention of Alexisonfire? I thought that fat dude in the band was a but muncher.

  • D. Bliss

    Maris the Great & the F@ggots of Death are pretty hilarious in their antics. Musically I can’t say that they left that big of an impression on me, but it’s decent stuff. If for nothing else, check out their photos of Maris “eating” other famous metal and hardcore bands.

  • niggaplease

    Meant to mention this in the other post, but that shit wasn’t pornogrind, it was shitty myspace screamo. nothing pornogrind about that shit. I wish someone around metalsucks actually knew anything

    • Duff

      True.

  • gauche

    Husker Du

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Darrell-Erickson/595856588 Darrell Erickson

    Los Crudos from Chicago is another badass hardcore band – apparently, the singer of Limp Wrist also fronted Los Crudos. xFUNFACTx

  • SidV101

    I’m legitimately enjoying Youth of Togay. funny shit

  • Spermsuck

    Check us too http://www.myspace.com/spermsuck!! GAYPORNGRIND

  • Wrathofbeowul

    There is also the Homopolice from Houston, TX

  • Steve Diguer