Noise: SFBG Music Blog - Gayest. Videos. Ever. (Pt. 2)

We've been compiling a little archive of local movers and shakers' favorite super-gay videos, either in context, influence, or just plain awesome swishiness. (Check out Part 1 here.) It's an webxperiment! Many of the participants appeared in our Gayest. Music. Ever. cover story from last week.

This week, local queer rock impressario Bill Picture of monthly punkrock live-act throwdown Trans Am (happening this Saturday at Club Eight and featuring The Passionistas) chimes in with a few limp-wristed doozies. Check it!

Bill peeks slyly from behind his partner, DJ Dirty Knees

For me, "gay" is more than just a more-palatable alternative to "poo-stabber." I also use it to describe things that I think are totally hot, really silly shit, and stuff that's totally lame. Check out my favorite "totally gay" videos, and you'll see what I mean:

David Bowie featuring Klaus Nomi, "The Man Who Sold The World"
Then-fence-sitting David Bowie performing "The Man Who Sold the World" with tranny-from-another-planet Klaus Nomi and future-drag-cabaret-superstar Joey Arias singing background. This "gay" falls under the "totally hot" heading. I was seven years old and fascinated by these gender-fluid freaks...

Toilet Boys, "You Got It"
Tranny-fronted headbangers Toilet Boys' "You Got It." Again, "totally hot." The first time I saw the guitarist Sean, who happens to be straight, I thought, "God, I wish I was a guitar so Sean would rub his sweaty business against me every night."

After the jump: Debbie Harry meets the Muppets, and Madonna gets exxxed

Debbie Harry and the Muppets, "Call Me"
Gay super-icon Debbie Harry performing "Call Me" for an audience full of frogs on "The Muppet Show." Definitely the "really silly" category. Debbie Harry is like CBGB's answer to Judy Garland or Liza Minelli . Too bad fags hadn't co-opted the word "fierce" yet because that's exactly what Debbie Harry was. I mean, who else could make a Golden-Girls-ish, lavender sweatsuit with sequins new wave appliques look sexy? Okhay!!!!...

Ex-Boyfriends, "Burning Up"
More "hotness." Local two-thirds-queer indie trio Ex-Boyfriends' live punk cover of Madonna's "Burning Up." Do I really need to explain this one?

Wham!, "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"
Okay, "totally lame"...Wham's "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go." What's up with George Michael's orangey Sun-In highlights? Anyone who didn't know that George Michael is gay when they saw this video should really be embarrassed. If gay was contagious, the whole world would have caught it from George Michael.