-Rumors frequently pop up on message boards on the internet speculating about Sean Reinert and you (Paul) being gay. While this in itself is nothing noteworthy since every human being is free to be whichever he or she chooses to be. However, in the rock/metal world it still seems to be a stigma where people sometimes are surprised to hear that musician X publicly admits being gay while for insiders it was never a secret to begin with. Most recently, Gorgoroth’s frontman Gaahl admitted being gay in the German Rockhard magazine.
Now I know some people expect me to ask you about your sexual orientation but I leave that to you whether you want to answer that. Regardless of that issue though, it would be interesting to hear your point of view on this strange stigma that the metal music genre seems to have.
-Metal began as an overtly masculine, macho, armored male genre. Funny enough an artist like Rob Halford learned how to turn that around and use that (biker) masculinity in a deceptively homoerotic fashion. Now it’s blaringly obvious, but it went right over the metal scene’s heads back then. As the lines get further blurred and the genre expands with a more open-minded approach, we find the barriers that keep’s metal in the dark ages dissolving one day at a time. I only see fear when people are judging others. It’s all projection and inner confusion that leads to such ignorance.
Cynic su i kul i gej.
