Comments on: Straight Bands and Their Gay Fans - John Jughead from Screeching Weasel and Even In Blackouts

By: PJ

PJ — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:00:31 +0000

Being hit on by straight women can be uncomfortable, yes. I’m currently enduring a straight woman thinking she’s in love with me. Sigh…

By: Josh D

Josh D — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:01:34 +0000

Screeching Weasel is probably one of the most influential bands in my life. Without their music, i doubt i would have made it through high school. Being gay, i found songs like “I wanna be a homosexual” extremely liberating and empowering. I had never heard of any gay bands, and to hear a band i LOVED so much have a song that directly applied to my life was awesome. Of course later on I found Pansy Division, and many other great queer bands, and i’m starting to feel like there ARE people out there like me, and it really is a good feeling.

And about getting hit on by gay men, i have experienced getting hit on by straight women, and although i’m flattered, its pretty damn uncomfortable for me too! haha

-Josh

By: undomiciled

undomiciled — Sat, 24 May 2008 03:20:35 +0000

Well said. I was turned on to screeching weasel by a straight roommate of mine. I too am straight and, uh, equal? I was just listening to “i wanna be a homosexual” and i remembered that though my roommate told me the song was pro-tolerance (equality, what have you, not saying there is anything that needs to be ‘tolerated’), other people are hard to convince of that, and I didn’t really know myself firsthand.

To me it was always a “fuck you if you can’t think of yourself or your loved ones being gay” but shit, thats a bold assumption, especially if you listen to the very sarcastic full version with the dialogue intro.

anyway, good shit.