What do you mean most folksingers are heterosexual? Wasn't it Woody Guthrie himself who wrote the great Gay Hymns This Gland is Your Gland, This Gland is my Gland, and Pretty Boy Freud? How about Dylan's I Like a Rolling Stone,his thinly veiled lovesong to Keith Richard? Or his ode to bestiality, I Want Ewe? Even the great Irish Traditional song Carrickfergus speaks of a man who in one line has his marriage recorded "on marble tablets, as black as ink", but several lines later is trying to find "a Handsome Boatman."

However, I am still surprised and shocked by this statement from Catspaw- "Personally, I am proud to admit that I'm a bald, Rogaine-using, mutated Ubanganese, Satanic converted, cross dressing, tri-sexual, with a passion for Armenian pants salesmen and Innuit strippers." - since, from his picture in the archive, he does not appear to be bald.

LEJ