Rock has always blurred gender lines

Tom Gabel's announcement that he is transgender shows how rock music has long offered succour to those trying to define their identityLast year, Keith/Nina Caputo of the New York band Life of Agony came out as transgender. This week, Tom Gabel, lead vocalist of Florida punk outfit Against Me! has taken the same brave step. Fans of Against Me! may guessed something was up in his 2007 song The Ocean ("And if I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman/ My mother once told me she would have...

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14:56 on May 9 2012

Rock has always blurred gender lines

Guardian Music — Tom Gabel's announcement that he is transgender shows how rock music has long offered succour to those trying to define their identityLast year, Keith/Nina Caputo of the ... more info