Seymour Stein hired me to help him run Sire Records. Man, was that the gayest label ever! I don't even mean that we had tons of gay and bi artists-- which we did-- or that the two top executives were gay-- which we were-- I mean the music just had this huge gay following. The Ramones-- despite Dee Dee's little experiment on the corner of 53rd and 3rd-- were a straight rock band but the kind of outlaw gays rebelling against the status quo flocked to them. Same with Talking Heads, Aphex Twin and Ministry. And then there were Erasure, the Pet Shop Boys, Yaz and Yazoo, Depeche Mode, Soft Cell and Marc Almond, The Smiths and Morrissey, The Cure, k.d. lang, Plastic Bertrand, Book of Love, Everything But the Girl, Dangerous Muse, B-Movie. Madonna. Seymour always talked to me about relatives and associates in high places in the military. I didn't pay much attention. I was too busy trying to figure out how to get videos made for Giovanni and Michael Davidson and other young singers he had met the weekend before and signed to 12" deals. But now it turns out that Seymour's relatives at the Department of Defense were devoting a great deal of energy and resources to Sire marketing plans. I kid you not. I was shocked today to read that the Pentagon was working to develop chemical "weapons" that would turn people gay. Sure, Seymour's little helpers were smart enough to couch their work as weapons developments, the development, to be precise of the "Gay Bomb... a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting." But don't fall over laughing just yet. It may have been tested out-- and there are incredible and otherwise inexplicable spikes in Erasure sales to prove it. And then there's the little matter of Mitch McConnell, now a closeted U.S. Senator from Kentucky, but once a hapless recruit who may have been a victim of one of these experiments gone awry. How else can you account for McConnell's 10 day stay in the army, precipitously terminated after some unapproved activities with several privates' privates?And Lindsey Graham? You want to explain that one? And this could never have happened without a gay bomb, right? Senator Mike Gravel's gay/military story is a lot more inspiring.Apparently Muslim scientists have already developed the gay bomb and have been threatening to deploy it. Who knows-- maybe they already did. Looks like Seymour may have gotten his friends at NASA to come up with one too:The original version of this post has a lot of art. You'll have to click over to Down With Tyranny to see it all. Warning: not for the faint of heart.
Jonh Ingham says
Great post. Especially the soccer mom link: "Why is daddy moving the furniture and who is Judy Garland?" lol! You remind me of what a powerhouse Sire was - fabulous roster.
Seymour Stein hired me to help him run Sire Records. Man, was that the gayest label ever! I don't even mean that we had tons of gay and bi artists-- which we did-- or that the two top executives were gay-- which we were-- I mean the music just had this huge gay following. The Ramones-- despite Dee Dee's little experiment on the corner of 53rd and 3rd-- were a straight rock band but the kind of outlaw gays rebelling against the status quo flocked to them. Same with Talking Heads, Aphex Twin and Ministry. And then there were Erasure, the Pet Shop Boys, Yaz and Yazoo, Depeche Mode, Soft Cell and Marc Almond, The Smiths and Morrissey, The Cure, k.d. lang, Plastic Bertrand, Book of Love, Everything But the Girl, Dangerous Muse, B-Movie. Madonna. Seymour always talked to me about relatives and associates in high places in the military. I didn't pay much attention. I was too busy trying to figure out how to get videos made for Giovanni and Michael Davidson and other young singers he had met the weekend before and signed to 12" deals. But now it turns out that Seymour's relatives at the Department of Defense were devoting a great deal of energy and resources to Sire marketing plans. I kid you not. I was shocked today to read that the Pentagon was working to develop chemical "weapons" that would turn people gay. Sure, Seymour's little helpers were smart enough to couch their work as weapons developments, the development, to be precise of the "Gay Bomb... a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting." But don't fall over laughing just yet. It may have been tested out-- and there are incredible and otherwise inexplicable spikes in Erasure sales to prove it. And then there's the little matter of Mitch McConnell, now a closeted U.S. Senator from Kentucky, but once a hapless recruit who may have been a victim of one of these experiments gone awry. How else can you account for McConnell's 10 day stay in the army, precipitously terminated after some unapproved activities with several privates' privates?And Lindsey Graham? You want to explain that one? And this could never have happened without a gay bomb, right? Senator Mike Gravel's gay/military story is a lot more inspiring.Apparently Muslim scientists have already developed the gay bomb and have been threatening to deploy it. Who knows-- maybe they already did. Looks like Seymour may have gotten his friends at NASA to come up with one too:The original version of this post has a lot of art. You'll have to click over to Down With Tyranny to see it all. Warning: not for the faint of heart.
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