killrockstar:

killrockstar:

thoughts from prev rb and i’m trying to get my thoughts together on this but i feel like people joke about gerard and frank’s “stage gay” so often it’s overlooked how they were, quite literally, painting themselves as targets. and i understand a lot of us mcr fans are young & didn’t grow up in that era really (not that we haven’t experienced homophobia/transphobia), but (& i say this speaking from someone WHO grew up around in a lgbtphobic home,) the 90s/early 2000′s were. not a safe place to be lgbt. i know we obviously know it was bad but like. it was fucking bad. and could be so casual about it. that post that talks about how mcr were dangerous for wearing makeup & having long hair comes to mind.

like the long hair, the makeup, gerard and frank kissing onstage, BERT and gerard, every introduction to a song where gerard talks about kissing men or having gay sex or WHATEVER → i get it those are all things we can have fun with now, and as lgbt people. but it was. dangerous for them. they were called faggots : on the internet, to their faces, on professional concert reviews. you had guys all over old forums posting about how much they hated mcr, hated gerard, he was a faggot, he sang gay, he sounded like a girl, they wanted to enact physical violence on him. guys saying this shit to their faces. they hated them so fucking much, in violent ways, out of homophobia.

and like the thing about mcr is they knew exactly why they were being hated in this way and they were being picked on for this shit long before the band formed.  and they kept fucking doing it anyway. on purpose.

i kinda forgot where i was going with this my point was that the early 2000s were relentlessly homophobic. what mcr did was dangerous for themselves. and this quote from gerard means something to me :

(which is ALSO a great example of homophobia back then. ^ when the guy who ran warped tour literally put a homophobic band to play after mcr, and after they clearly showed their asses on what they thought about lgbt people, just for funsies! they did not care about lgbt people. but my chemical romance did.)