UNBELIVABLE ANNOUNCEMENT:Dug Pinnick on Accept among the lesbian, gay Members in the Hard Rock/Metal to….

Every now and then, I’ll see a band that I’m really liking, and there’ll be a line in a song about [being] gay, and it’ll be very negative — and not just the word “gay,” ’cause the word “gay,” kids say, “Hey, that’s gay,” I have no problem with that — but when they talk about our lifestyle and who we are in a very negative way, I don’t like when anybody does that, especially a metal band. It kind of makes me angry.

Korn, for instance, when that first record came out and the line says, “I’m a f—t, I’m a motherfucking queer,” what [singer] Jonathan [Davis] did is, he didn’t come out and ridicule gay people at all. He came out and owned it. He said things that made you own what you were saying. It was like it was so, so, so big and so strong. Because gay people, we don’t stand up. We don’t say, “Hey, this is who I am. Screw you.” When he said that, and even though Jonathan’s not gay … it kind of broke a lot of walls, especially [in light] of his childhood sexual abuse … It was helping kids to open up and realize they weren’t alone, especially kids that have been abused sexually.

I don’t know. For me, words are words. I’m black, so I’ve heard the word “n—” more in my life than “f—t,” actually. Going to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert, I heard someone say behind me, “Oh, they’re lettin’ n—s in now,” and I’m goin’, “Wow,” you know? So I’ve lived in prejudice all my life. I’ve heard the comments.

But as for that, no, I don’t have a problem with words. I have a problem with the reason why people say the words. And I’ve always been that way. I’m an advocate that says two words that I think we need to decriminalize, it’s “n—” and “fuck.” Because every time those two words come up, somebody gets offended or has to have a problem with it, and then the rebellious people want to use it all the time in your face to make you mad.

One thing is ’cause it’s such a guy genre. Guys get together, and they make jokes about gay people and talk about gay people and they call each other “gay” and accuse each other of being gay if they do something feminine. Guys are just brutal. I mean, you go to the bathroom in a guy’s bathroom, and you don’t hear a word. No one looks at each other, no one says anything, and when everybody’s lined up at a stall, everybody’s eyes are straight ahead. No one looks at each other, because if anybody looks down or anything, they might get hit.