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The Goths and the Gays: Why Goth is so Important for the LGBTQ+ Community
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With its dark romantic aesthetic and openness to androgyny, is it any wonder that goth is gay? Well, it’s not, because clothing and styles don’t own a sense of gender or sexuality. But goth is gay. Goth is queer, in its own way. I remember as a teenager, having a few goth male friends – all cisgender and heterosexual – and yet their long hair and androgynous clothing style meant that they were the subject of taunting. Why are so many queer people drawn to gothic fashion? Is it its subversion of traditional masculinity and femininity? Is it its acceptance and even appraisal, of all things weird? Historically speaking, queerness has been branded as “weird”. The word literally means “strange” or “peculiar”. Many goths include liberal and left-wing views, and are accepting of Gay people, possibly because of the association of “strangeness” with being queer.
Goth is still branded as “odd” and “scary”. Similarly, so is the LGBTQ+ collective at times. A fear of queerness is still ingrained within our population, as it’s an “unknown” and it differs from the heteronormative r
The moment I saw the headline, I did a sort of combined cringe and sigh. “Vampire Gay Goth wants to add shadowy stripe to LGBT rainbow flag”, boggled the Lancashire Telegraph, an esteemed title probably more concerned with neighbourly disputes and weather turmoil. Instead, the article is doing a booming trade in the usual horrific drivel inhabiting any comments section on the internet – their advertising department will be glad at least.
A disclaimer should come first – I’m a straight man and thus cannot address with authority on LGBT matters. I’ll defer wherever workable to those more qualified to speak.
On with the tale then. Meet Darkness Vlad Tepes, who just one-upped you as a teenager when you tried to get people to call you ‘Raven’. He’s no stranger to the media, having already asked the common to ‘treat him like anyone else’ – in an article where he acknowledges he drinks animal blood, sleeps in a coffin, and visits pubs in a tiny Northern town decked in mourning finery, only to be affronted when he’s subjected to abuse.
Put simply, Darkness – or Mr Tepes as the manuscript superbly calls him &#
Queer and Goth
Glow sticks, sweaty bodies and chest-thumping beats - sounds like any gay club. But when Ascension's website describes the club as 'Edinburgh's leading alternative night', they don't mean gender non-conforming - they mean goth.
'Goth' is a subjective term, especially now with the rise of 'emo' with its equally wide-ranging connotations. So let me define my terms. Please interpret 'goth' as broadly as possible. It includes, but is not limited to: 'baby goth', 'occasional goth', and 'if I wear a colour other than black, I'll combust' goth. And let me specify 'queer' as an all-inclusive designation to include all peoples who might fit roughly under the lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or genderqueer umbrella.
Although some LGBT people appreciate traditionally straight clubs with no problems, many find straight clubs intimidating and unsafe, myself included. It's only in specifically LGBT-friendly clubs that I feel protected snogging a female partner without worrying about being ogled or even harassed by uninvited linear men. When I discovered the vastness of the Edinburgh goth scene, though, my world of clubbing expanded fast. It helps, of course, that "being LGBT on the goth scene kinda makes up for