Gay Prog

Snow Dog wrote: Its been mentioned here about Freddy Mercury, but he wasn't gay, he was Bi.                       Like in the song"...Bi.....siclke, Bi... sickle, I want to ride my Bi Sickle", about the bisexual farmer!

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Its been mentioned here about Freddy Mercury, but he wasn't gay, he was Bi.

Like in the song"...Bi.....siclke, Bi... sickle, I want to ride my Bi Sickle", about the bisexual farmer!

Actually, prog has always been rather androgenous (sp?). Never overly-macho or pin-headedly socially conservative, but yeah, I suppose Roxy Music and the whole glam rock thing is a genre of prog.

Genesis sounds pretty gay and they play like girls And there album covers looks like they was painted by a child, yust by looking at them you know how its going to sound like baby prog. 

And people complain about jon andersons lyrics at least they sounds cool, Genesis lyrics yust sounds childish and silly, and very gay.

Hmm... I was reading some stuff in "Progressive Rock Reconsidered," and it had an article about prog rock and sexuality...a bit confusing, but interesting. It focused on Yes, and their music, mainly. It didn't label it as being "gay" or "straight", but rather open to any interpretation. You'll notice Yes always sings in reference to a "you", but never specifies it. Think of "And You and I". It could be interpreted as a simple generic man-woman lovesong, a song to God or a higher power, a song to yourself and your own soul/mind, or even a homosexual love song. It never says who "you" is. Some other examples are "Onward" and "To Be Over," and probably some others.

But really, I don't think there's a specific "gay" prog. There may be a few gay proggers here and there, but no ring or group or anything. The closest thing would be ambiguous hippie-ish music that could be either, like Yes.

Derek Sherinian is gay. But I don't bother ... his songs are great! Allthough they are all instrumental. It has something epic.

Perhaps there's a hidden link between exceptional music and gay artists ( if you think about Freddy Mercury for example).

@nimrodel: Why should the Swedish band "The Flower Kings" be gay? Roine Stolt is great! Allthough his side-project Kaipa is a little bit strange ...

They may not be gay (ask Threefates ), but they sure look like they are on this cover...

I think it might be of interest to anyone interested in music really. I am not gay myself, but I think that generally, "gayish" music is more creative and interesting than were "straight" genres. Were straight artists include the likes of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Dire Straits and Metallica, and they are all completely boring. I also enjoy relatively "gayish" genres as new romantic and glam rock. It would therefore be quite interesting, because that would set progrock apart from other "straight" genres in being quite interesting.

And I think that the large number of gays in music and other forms of popular culture rather speaks on behalf of gays, because it clearly shows how boring popular culture would have been without them.

I guess all the good progressive rock is gay if you refer to the adjective =)