Observant caonimas may have noticed that Kpopalypse featured random “non-Korean LGBT” selections in Kpopalypse roundups during 2025. Since roundup is now over for the year, here’s a handy list of all music content that was part of this feature, just so you don’t have to go trawling through individual roundups to find the picks!
Previous years of the Kpopalypse random song feature such as the black music feature and Asian-but-not-Korean-not-pop-not-world-music feature had a specific purpose, but this year I featured non-Korean LGBT artists for no reason other than I decided 2025 was going to be a particularly LGBT year (and I was right about that, wasn’t I). Here were all the videos featured.
Judas Priest – Painkiller
While there was no real guideline I was working with in 2025, I did make a conscious effort to try and keep away from “stereotypical music for the gays”. So of course Judas Priest had to be the first artist off the block, because people were completely blindsided when he came out, after decades of dressing himself in BDSM club fetish wear no less. To straight metal fans it was just “tough” or something… and I guess it was, because in such a heteronormative scene announcing your gayness is something that’s often shied away from. There’s plenty of other heavy rockers who are gay and will take their secret to the grave because they’re scared of losing their fans… Rob Halford paved the way!
Throbbing Gristle – Hamburger Lady (live at Turin 2005)
Speaking of paving the way, Throbbing Gristle are the only industrial group proven to make BTS fangirls cry, although they actually made a lot of other people cry before then. Throbbing Gristle are basically industrial music’s version of The Beatles, a completely revolutionary act that changed the game and became enduringly popular… okay scratch that last bit, they never achieved more than cult status, but it’s guaranteed that your industrial music faves listen to this.
Limp Wrist – Live at , November 05, 2016
Limp Wrist were the first openly gay punk band that I had the pleasure of seeing live, I got a lot closer to the singer’s bare asscheeks than most straight male k-pop writers you’ve heard of as well as most people in this video. They were great, the loudness was intense and the songs were short, sharp and shiny as the singer’s butt-sweat.
Gorgoroth – Teethgrinding (Live At Wacken 2008)
Gaahl is great at interviews, and it’s even better that the most satanic metal person who ever was satanic (apart from all the other ones) is also gay as shit. Did I mention that metal is heteronormative and bland as fuck? As Jello Biafra once said about metal “no high school gym teacher could get so many people to dress alike”, but at least Gorgoroth fucks differently even if he dresses the same. I feel like that’s what matters.
Tyler The Creator – Yonkers
I put “Yonkers” in the actual roundup and that’s a great song, but this time I’m putting Tyler’s great gay freestyle in, because it’s even better. Watching Funkmaster Flex get as uncomfortable as all shit when Tyler starts rhyming “flex” with “buttsex” is hilarious, rap guys are just as closeted and weird as metal guys and they need someone like Tyler to shake things up. Also, “like R. Kelly wet dreams / I only keep six teens” has to be bar of the year (for whatever year this was released in… or maybe it can just be the bar of every year).
Angel Vivaldi ft. Nita Strauss – Serotonin
Angel Vivaldi sure has some dancing chops and I feel like he could easily collab with a k-pop group and fit right in with no issues. Maybe this combined shred/dance thing should have been floated to After School back in the day, or maybe some of the newer guitar-slinging k-pop girls like Heejin or Winter or whatshername from TripleS could take a leaf out of his book. Anyway he’s also gay as if that wasn’t obvious (actually it wasn’t to me and I’d seen him in guitar shred collabs for years before I knew).
Death In June – The Accidental Protégé
Industrial-adjacent folk group Death In June definitely deserve a place in this list, and it’s a little known fact even among fans of the group that Douglas P has had at least one confirmed bear-on-bear gay porn appearance. Good luck finding any of the footage these days although I’m sure a few superfans have it stashed away somewhere, ahem. Anyway because I’m boringly straight the music’s always been the main thing for me with Death In June but unfortunately I forgot what I was going to say about it because I can’t get visions of him licking that other guy’s ballsack out of my head. But yeah. Good music, I promise.
Azealia Banks ft. Lazy Jay – 212
While she jumps the shark on social media more often than Steve Irwin and Oh My Girl combined, there’s no denying that “212” was an absolute banger. None of her other songs managed to really capture what’s so good about her (although “Anna Wintour” got close), if only she harnessed more of that social media hate-energy into her songs she’d be unstoppable. Her exact LGBT status, who the fuck even knows these days, I’m hesitant to even throw down on it because by next week it’ll probably change and then she’ll abuse me for it, I’m such a delicate flower on social media please don’t hurt me Azealia uwu
Megara – Truco O Trato
A reader suggestion and a good one, Spanish heavy metal lesbians? Don’t mind if I do. Okay, it’s not the best music out of everything in this list, but hey… it’s Spanish heavy metal lesbians. Points for the concept alone. I’m not sure why she kills the other girl in this video though, that seems kind of weirdly random, but I still bet a few of my readers would sign up to die this way.
The Dicks – Dicks Hate The Police
Truly one of the best punk songs of all time, “Dicks Hate The Police” is legendary, does everything a punk rock song should and nothing that it shouldn’t. It’s certainly helped along a great deal by gay singer Gary Floyd’s incredible vocal delivery which is just perfect for this style. Yes Kpopalypse does sometimes care about vocals when it matters, it just doesn’t matter when your dumb k-pop bias opens their mouth.
Qiao Qiao – Ai Bui Fen (Love Doesn’t Discriminate)
Qiaoqiao is China’s first openly lesbian singer. The song here is nice and features a neat drama video with lesbian lovers who aren’t allowed to kiss because society says it’s not okay so they just hang out on the beach a lot and their ovaries hurt like Caitlin and Hana in their dorms. Qiaoqiao also opened the first lesbian bar in Beijing, and there is still an under-the-radar lesbian nightlife in Beijing to this day thanks to Qiaoqiao PAVING THE WAY.
Diamanda Galás – Das Fieberspital (The Fever Hospital) part II
In the LGBT features this year I deliberately shied away from featuring people who were mere “allies”, because there’s plenty of actual LGBT artists to feature and let’s face it pretty much everyone is waving an LGBT flag these days. However gothic operatic singer (for want of a better way to descrbe her) Diamanda Galas is a special case as her committment to LGBT causes is so long, well-documented and intense. This woman has entire albums dedicated to AIDS victims that sound exactly like the grim reaper visiting you while you sleep and tearing your soul into pieces and if you don’t believe me take a listen. This is music that you don’t “enjoy”, instead you “experience” it, and then you talk about it later in the same hushed respectful tones as when you talk about the time you nearly sliced into your genitals with a carving knife while trying to make the perfect woodcut of IU. Recommended.
Liberace – Chopsticks (live at Carnegie Hall)
The only person who could turn the disastrous “Chopsticks” into something actually worth listening to (Niziu could never), not to mention exhibiting more stage presence while remaining seated than your k-pop bias can muster over an hour long concert, I loved Liberace as a kid. Probably because like me, he played piano, and I could probably sense those long torturous hours of practice and sexual repression hiding behind that smile. Truly one of the greats.
Coil – The First Five Minutes After Violent Death
I didn’t feature Psychic TV in the LGBT roundup but I guess it doesn’t matter because between Throbbing Gristle and Coil we’ve covered all the members anyway. Further proof that industrial music is the music of BADING, Coil have a vast catalogue and all of it is kind of strange and fucked up so if you like strange fucked up music I recommend them wholeheartedly.
The Runaways – Cherry Bomb
I can’t even remember when The Runaways came out, but I have a feeling that it was the female equivalent of Judas Priest, where all the boring straights like me had no idea but for those in the know it was the most obvious thing in the world to the point where it didn’t even need stating. The camerawoman must’ve been gay too judging by the way they absolutely refuse to focus the camera in on the one straight girl in the group while she does her guitar solo.
12 Rods – 24 Hours Ago
My research on 12Rods’ sexuality was a bit hazy, and that’s probably the way they wanted it given the similar gender-haziness of this group’s lyrics. Anyway their music is great, like a more modern Pixies.
Big Boys – Fun, Fun, Fun
Big Boys are another cool punk band from the same Texas scene as The Dicks and this is a neat video that definitely recreates the chaos of shows from back then. What’s with gay punk bands and Texas? Who knows, but Sgt Hartman was right.
Faith No More – Be Aggressive
I was actually really surprised to find out that “Be Aggressive” was the Faith No More keyboard player’s ode to sucking men’s cocks and not the singer’s ode to his JAV collection. Anyway they never got better than the “Angel Dust” album that this song is off.
Death – Lack Of Comprehension
I could have put Cynic in the LGBT roundup instead, but Death with the two gay Cynic members Paul Masdival and Rob Reinert in them actually sounded better than both Cynic as usual and Death when they were being hetero. There’s far too much ironic pretend gayness and not enough actual gay gayness in the metal scene so it’s good that “Human” is one of Death’s best albums.
Crisis – Alienation
“I’ve never made it with a woman, I’ve only made it with men / I’d like to make it with a woman, just to see if I can” is definitely a lyric of the ages, and of course it comes from Douglas P, the man who would later form Death In June and sing about making it with men a lot in that group too. Crisis weren’t quite as good but it still holds up pretty well these days even if their left-wing sloganeering dates it to the time when punk bands thought all they had to do to start the revolution was make their own cassette tape covers.
Tribe8 – Butch In The Streets
I thought about putting seminal lesbian queercore group Tribe8 in the LGBT feature, but I decided against it because I bought the Tribe8 album “Snarkism” back in the 1990s after reading an (excellent) interview with them, and regretted it straight away, musically the album was boring, it had no songs. Stupid me, I should have investigated “Fist City” instead, it’s a much better album, but one I never investigated back in the day because in the 90s albums were harder to get. A reader clued me into this great track and thank you for that.
Cakes Da Killer – Living Gud, Eating Gud
Cakes Da Killer is as “gud” as the song title suggests, the guy has some bars and some beats and that automatically puts him above 99% of rappers be they straight, gay or whatever. The fact that he’s gay makes it even better because rap really needs more gayness.
G.L.O.S.S – Girls living outside society’s shit
The problem with a lot of these super LGBT punk bands is that they’re that fucking deep into progressive values that as soon as they start getting the teensiest, tiniest bit of fame, it fucks with their “we’re all about the community and not notoriety, fuck capitalism etc” muscle and they break up in disgust. Which is all well and good for them I suppose but it does make it suck for others like me who want to just track down their music. I’m glad people clued me into this group who existed for hardly any time at all before they called it quits because holy fuck, I’m digging this, it’s really powerful. Not sure what’s going on exactly gender wise, but then nor do I care when the music is this good.
Riotnine – Death Before Detransition
A reader suggestion, I still don’t really know anything about Riotnine but I really enjoy the dynamics of this song, a great example of changing up a style seamlessly and effectively but still with maximum contrast. Recommended.
GG Allin – Bite It You Scum
It’s funny to me how so many very “I’m a tough guy no homo I promise” people that I know love GG Allin and treat their love of GG Allin like some kind of badge of “tough punk guy” honour when he was a big fan of sucking the dicks of fans (literally).
Brojob – Size King
Speaking of which I really like the idea of this song specifically because instead of showing off in the usual ways guys like to show off i.e “I have the biggest dick” instead it’s “I can take the biggest dick”. I think it’s one of the most heartfelt songs ever recorded.
Grant Macdonald – Ram Ranch
The Shaggs meets Brokeback Mountain. Sadly I have to use a fanmade video here as Grant’s YouTube channel got nuked. Free Grant!
God Is My Co Pilot – Songs Of Praise
If Melt Banana were LGBT Americans instead of… whatever they actually are instead, they would probably sound like this. That’s definitely a recommendation.
Peaches – I Don’t Give A…
I saw Peaches live many years ago and she was fantastic, truly a great show. Especially memorable was her “stripping” during the show where she’d constantly take off her underwear just to reveal even more underwear, at one point she had a dozen pairs of panties staggered down her legs like a ladder – all while screaming like a mad woman of course AND signing some pretty damn good pop songs too. Stage presence, you’r k-pop faves DON’T have it, Peaches has it, remember this.
The B-52s – Rock Lobster
For some reason I never cottoned on to The B-52s being an almost entirely gay group, even though they look gay, sound gay, have lyrics that are gay, party like they’re gay, and climbed the charts in my youth like they were gay. Clearly my gaydar is broker than broke and that’s partly why I think an LGBT feature this year was a good idea, maybe it’ll help you find some gay groups if you’re as socially clueless as I am.
Halestorm – Love Bites (So Do I)
A lot of these new retro hard rock bands are actually pretty shit but Halestorm isn’t. It’s probably the sincerity of their BADING lead singer that helps them out quite a bit, she sounds earnest rather than just cheesy, like she actually gives a fuck.
Angel Haze – Cleaning Out My Closet
This rap song is one that apparently many LGBT people credit as helping save them from suicidal thoughts, so I thought it was worth sharing. It has a weak beat but the lyrics definitely make up, and the end result is powerful even to a boring straight-ass like me so I can only imagine how much it means to the 66% of my readers who are somewhere on the BADING spectrum.
Sigur Ros – Svefn G Englar
A band fronted by a gay singer who is blind in one eye and sings in his own made-up language, probably his sexuality is the least interesting thing about him. The early Sigur Ros stuff has their super-warm, beautiful sound created by all the distorted violin-bowed guitars crashing like waves around the mix. Later on they got a bit too “Gweneth Paltrow’s baby-making playlist” for my liking but when they were good they were like nothing else.
Sleater-Kinney – Jumpers
I went and saw this band live not long before they broke up in the mid-2000s (they’ve since reformed) and it was a very kick ass show. I always really liked the drummer, and as usual she turned out to be BADING because I just like lesbians for some reason.
Brockhampton – Heat
I never really understood the hate for Brockhampton when they appeared on the rap scene, but now that I know their sexuality, I get it – rap fans being homophobic pieces of shit as usual. There’s certainly nothing to hate about Brockhampton’s beat choice here, while all the straights were investigating weak pussy trap beats, “Heat” hits like a brick.
Muzizmu – Set
Muzizmu sure is one strange cat. He has a website (NSFW), a lot of gay-friendly visuals over on his Twitter where he just sort of stands around in nature showing his body a lot (very NSFW), and if you want something a bit more hardcore he has you covered there too as he has had a gay porn appearance recently (Douglas P paved the way)… and he also makes this really chilled out, nice, dark ambient music which is legitimately good and not at all what I was expecting after checking out all the other stuff.
Little Richard – Tutti Fruiti
Apparently Little Richard and his band used to wear makeup so they would “look queer” and this wasn’t some early pro-LGBT statement, it was actually so the insecure white men in the audiece would think they were gay and therefore wouldn’t get too worried about Little Richard and his band scooping up their girlfriends and try to start fights. Nevertheless Little Richard was gay anyway, or omnisexual, or something or other, he flip-flopped on all this several times in his career, sadly renouncing all BADING vibes shortly before he died, but he’d had his fun by then of course so it hardly mattered. Still a legend of rock in difficult times for non-straight folks.
Dazey & The Scouts – Wet
Anbother LGBT band that existed for a mere blip on the radar before breaking up, at least Dazey & The Scouts gave us the excellent “Wet” before they vanished.
Goldfrapp – Lovely Head
When I first heard that vocal/analog synth lead interplay thing that Goldfrapp does at about 2:10 into this thing I swear I nearly shot my load (it’s even better on the studio version actually). Many years later I found out that Goldfrapp isn’t into guys and wouldn’t appreciate that sort of thing so I’m sorry about that, miss, but your music was just too good, don’t mind me I’ll just clean up and excuse myself quietly.
Dreamcrusher – Codeine Eyes
A lot of the “new” noise artists are kind of poop and sound a bit irrelevant compared to the Throbbing Gristles and Merzbows of the world but I actually really did Dreamcrusher’s flair with oscillating synths and yelling a lot.
Queen – Breakthru
One thing that really blows me away about Queen is that much like GG Allin, their music attracts so many homophobes. If you tell a homophobic Queen fan about Freddy Mercury being someone who would basically fuck any adult with a hole they always come back with the most crazy rationalisations so they can still be homophobic but like Queen. I guess that’s the power of the music that they just can’t bear to live without it.
Millions Of Dead Cops – I Remember
Millions Of Dead Cops (often abbreviated to MDC, not sure why) are pretty hit and miss actually but when they hit it’s really good, like it is here. I felt they were worth putting in the LGBT roundup anyway despite information on their sexuality being a bit hazy… but ex-Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra hates them supposedly, for… some reason? Pretty good reason to have them here.
Einsturzende Neubauten – Armenia
Blixa Bargeld was the first person who made me realise that noise music could actually work compositionally really well and he did it through this song here. I only found out decades later that he was non-binary, but by then it didn’t matter, he had already fucked me hard in the music taste.
Worriers – They/Them/Theirs
Hey here’s a good song. That’s all.
Leaether Strip – Crash Flight 232
The gay Danish equivalent of Front Line Assembly sounds similar but could use more fast editing.
Uboa – An Angel of Great and Terrible Light
I’m a bit embarrased because it took me so long to find out about Uboa, a transgender artist from my own country. This song gets intense and strange, so if you like intense and strange music, here is some of that.
R.E.M. – It’s The End Of The World
I think that we all assumed that Michael Stipe was queer as fuck in R.E.M’s heyday, but I missed the memo when he actually came out and said exactly that in 1994. What I didn’t miss was their peak 1980s hits, nor seeing R.E.M live which was… okay I guess, they’re better in the studio honestly. Highlight of the show was Michael forgetting the words to “It’s The End Of The World” and running around the stage screaming “FUCK!” into the microphone until he finally remembered his lines. I think it’s the most angry anyone’s ever seen him.
Pet Shop Boys – Being Boring
I had two other songs in the roundup but I thought I’d throw “Being Boring” in to finish this list off and say farewell to our LGBT year. Pet Shop Boys apparently wrote the lyrics to this in response to articles in the press that the band were making boring music, so it’s pretty funny in that context. It’s also a touching little tribute to the people who actually had more interesting lives than me back when this came out. I remember watching this video on my couch as a teenager thinking “gosh they’re having fun, how do I be these people?” I still have no idea about that. Anyway it’s mainly just included here for the fanservice – BADING!
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