The original video, for anyone who hasn’t seen it:
And the relevant album cover:
Sessler was a teenager when “We’re Not Gonna Take It” it was on the charts. Probably had MTV so he saw the video.
No fuckin’ idea how he thought it was in support of “traditional American values.”
Never not reblog. Dee Snider is iconic and queer as fuck for a cishet man.
-fae
No one disrespects my man Dee in this house.
Never forget when he sat in front of a congressional hearing about Lewd Music Corrupting the Youth and completely shut that shit down in the most professional manner that no member of that committee expected from a hair metal musician. They thought they’d get easy points off of a dumb metalhead and this man not only knew exactly what the fuck he was talking about, he tore their arguments apart.
DUDE THE VIDEOOO
For those unfamiliar with this ICON
This is why my working definition of queer is “queerness is that which accepts queerness.”
It encompasses a radical welcome and celebration of things that deviate from “the norm” and a fierce willingness to defend them from people who think mere deviance is worthy of vicious and violent bullying.
Dee Snider is the embodiment of “Queer as in fuck you.”
