They point out that during the band’s December reunion show in Los Angeles, Way “ dragged his hand across his chest” while singing a line about “duct tape scars” during a performance of 2010’s “Destroya” - which could be interpreted as a reference to chest binding. A 15-year-old New Jersey-based transmasculine high school student who wishes to go by Ghoul for this story told me over Twitter DM that MCR’s music is especially “affirming” because Way “drops hints in his music” about gender and masculinity. MCR’s influence has also touched a younger generation of teens who might have not even been born when the band’s first album was released.
FAT BOOTY Sissy rides dildo HARD with CREAMY GAPE. Ass Bareback Bedroom Big cock Blowjob First time Jizz Riding. They also tell me over Twitter DM that Way’s gender-fluid self-expression helped them figure out a “pathway” to their gender identity more quickly. SEXY TWINK GETS HIS FIRST ANAL without a condom tear up practice IN BED. “ meant a lot to me as a youthful emo several years back,” Mikey wrote in a tweet about the event.
Having met Mikey previously at various meet & greets, Way recognized the young fan in the audience, pulled them up, and let them use their chosen name in front of the entire crowd. Mikey, a 22-year-old London-based transmasculine illustrator and MCR superfan, recalls a time when they were celebrated on stage by Way at a 2014 show in Oxford, when Mikey had just recently come out as trans. Way is also one of the biggest stars in music - straight or queer - who so frequently advocates for trans and nonbinary rights on stage and in interviews. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. “It definitely gave me some gumption to face bullies and come to grips with how similar we all truly are… We're all ‘emo’ for something, let's just talk about it.” “This album specifically tackles really difficult subject matter to confront when you're young, especially regarding identity, politics, life, and death,” she writes in an email, explaining that she used to be called an “MCR gay” while growing up in Mississippi. “I felt that my shitty feelings and angst were being taken seriously.”ĭuella Couture, a Seattle-based drag performer who put on a sold-out MCR-themed drag night in November, speaks to how important the band’s 2006 album Welcome to the Black Parade was for queer kids when it came out, due to how it confronted heavy topics in an accessible way. Gita, a 22-year-old student based in Quezon City, Philippines, realized as a young adult that she and all her friends in middle who were big fans of MCR “turned out gay.” Over Twitter DM, she says that it makes sense in retrospect, considering the band’s music “celebrated outcasts” and expressed themselves in a melodramatic, almost campy way: “I listened to MCR because their music had a degree of drama to it that maybe other people would have found over the top or silly,” she says.