James Bowman from Against Me!

I know. Most of you have probably thought that this post was going to be about Laura Jane Grace (formerly known as Tom Gabel), the frontman frontwoman of Florida folk-punkrockers Against Me! Her story is truly inspiring for anyone fighting against prejudices and seeking their sexual/personal freedom; a boy who was raised inside the punk-rock scene having to deal with a lot of homophobic behaviours and who, in his thirties, married and with a daughter, decided to accept and reveal her true self, as a woman. Happily, her family supported that decision and the band, or at least the only original remaining member, supported that too.

Peter Hook (Joy Division / New Order)

Long time since last post. I am not always on the mood to blog or to think about gorgeous rockers that may be on the blog. So, I thought I would make two posts almost at the time. The subject would be similar, two mature men that surprisingly or maybe not, I find cuter as time passes. Both of them are British, they’re also great artists and none of them is/was the frontman of their bands. Also, they have something in common musically or let’s best say that one band took sound from where the other(s) left.

¿Feeling curious? I’m talking about Peter Hook, bassist of Joy Division and New Order -nowadays touring and playing Joy Division setlists- and Adrian Utley, which plays, well, bass, guitar, piano and whatever in the truly amazing Portishead, as amazing as Joy Division were.

There are a lot of photographs so I split this in one post for each musician and this one is about Hook.

Hello rockers!

Bienvenidos. Empiezo la andadura de este blog comentándoos un poco su objetivo (para más información, leed el «about»). «Rocker and proud» trata de unir dos mundos que parecen muy separados, como son la música rock y la homosexualidad. Por suerte o por desgracia, el autor, o sea yo, resulta ser gay y un apasionado del rock alternativo y me niego a pensar que soy el único, así que espero obtener algo de feedback por aquí.

Y es que hay comunidades casi de todo pero no he conocido ninguna con estos parámetros. Y no creo que a todos los gays nos tenga que gustar el house y Madonna, de ninguna manera. Por lo demás, sólo espero que la gente se sienta cómoda por aquí, con independencia de género y condición sexual y que encuentre algo que no ha encontrado en ningún otro sitio. Eso sería genial.

Welcome everybody. I start this blog telling you in short what is its aim (for more info, read «about»). «Rocker and proud» tries to bring together two worlds that seem very far one of another, rock music and homosexuality. By good or bad luck, the author, that’s me, is in fact gay and also an alternative rock maniac and I refuse to think that I’m the only one, so I hope to get some feedback around here.

The fact is that nowadays there are communities of almost every thing but I haven’ known any with this parametres. And I don’t think we gays must like house and Madonna, no way. I just want people to feel confortable here, no matter genre or sexual preferences, and that they find something that haven’t found in any other place. That would be awesome.