ISSUE: DNA #283 – Pop, Pride, Politics | BUY
Sometimes I like a deep dive into the unknown. I’m not abseiling or anything dramatic, but if it’s a deep dive into new music, films or books, I’m there.
Recently, scrolling through my music app, I came across a track called Bisexual Awakening by an Australian punk act called Clowns. It’s nose-bleed rock with barely distinguishable lyrics, and I couldn’t find them online, but I did find an interview with the lead singer, who seemed very pleasant, and he explained that the song is, indeed, about his own bisexual awakening. I think the lyrics are something like, “I could fuck your brother, I could fuck your sister, I could fuck your dad.”
No chance of bi-erasure with these Clowns.
Coincidentally, I also stumbled across another bi-and-proud pop act by the name of Geordie Kieffer, who is featured in this issue of DNA. On his track, Swinger, he sings, “I like your dad / does that make me bad?”
I took a deep dive in Geordie’s music and videos and I recommend you do, too! His songs are relentlessly sexual with titles like Sex Party, Nasty, Touch Me Tease Me, Pu$$Y, Sex Cowboy, Fuck It, Nicotine And Piss and Tastes Like Chocolate. His videos, which you’ll find on YouTube, range from the sweet (Geordie has a bubble bath with another boy) to the more explicit (Geordie is held down by a dominatrix while a sexy older man dressed as a doctor inserts a dildo into him).
I messaged DNA’s contributing music guru, Marc Andrews, and suggested we get onto a Geordie interview asap. Geordie was up for it straight away – I suspect there are quite a few things Geordie is up for straight away. And the good news is that he’s currently in the middle of a North American tour and is headed to Australia in November.
Maybe Broadway is more your style, or disco? If so, Idina Menzel, of Wicked and Frozen fame, has released a disco album called Drama Queen. Marc Andrews also spoke to her for this issue and she told us how much she loves her gay fans, of course!
During Pride month, we asked our Instagram followers to give us their gay Pride anthems and we had some great and unexpected responses. I hope you enjoy people’s choices and have a listen to the ones you don’t know.
This month I strongly recommend our news feature America’s Drift Towards Gilead by Torsten Højer. Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale and the adapted TV series has captured the imagination of millions. In her fictional vision of a dystopian American future, God’s Law is enforced by heterosexual men while women are reduced to subservient baby-making machines, and gays and lesbians are hanged in the town square.
Recent events in real-life America suggest the country is, indeed, moving away from liberal democracy and towards religious autocracy. Torsten compares Atwood’s fiction with recent news events and finds chilling parallels.
Andrew Creagh, Founding Editor
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