“As a straight member of a gay band, I totally didn’t get the point of the gay song I wrote for my gay band”

I hate him saying "get your mind out of the gutter" as if even thinking about people who are gay is itself a perverted sexual act.

Gay people exist. Acknowledging this and discussing whether a piece of media is directed at them is not "mind in gutter" stuff.

I don't want to go so far as to say this person is homophobic, but it sure does sound like some internalized homophobia, perhaps.

I can reluctantly believe that is true (despite the laughable first paragraph where he gives example after example about why such "assumptions" are reasonable) - but he's old enough to know that once an artist puts art out into the world, their interpretation of it is no longer the only one.

The song IS a gay anthem even if it wasn't written that way.

edit - they the

Offering young men ways to have a good time when they're short on their dough sure as hell doesn't sound straight.

And we're SURE this isn't The Onion? How sure?

I mean, the title and situation is a lot more straightforward than the nuance behind his reasoning and the history of the band.

Not the Onion? Amazing.