KId Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds: Haunted Head

“When you think of the Gun Club, The Cramps, even Nick Cave; it’s all so pro-sexuality," he says. "And yeah, so there were no limits. Early punk rock, the first wave was so incredibly gay. It wasn’t an issue because I was a glam rock kid…everybody was so sexually ambiguous. Straight guys were acting super effeminate just to get girls. David Bowie/Lou Reed culture even if they were straight; everybody was inventing this mythology of themselves as sexually free so I was out but it was never an issue. I became a gay activist later, but my musical life has never been about being gay. Early punk with these bands it was not only that being different was not only welcome it was required…so many gay people…Darby, The Screamers, everybody knew they were gay and who was fucking, but labels were taboo. Even calling yourself a punk was frowned on!”

Noisey/Vice interview.