Gary Floyd, who fronted legendary Texas punk band The Dicks as well as Sister Double Happiness, died on Tuesday in San Francisco. He had been in ill health for a while and was admitted to a hospital earlier this week after suffering congestive heart failure. He was 71. Openly gay at a time when few musicians were (the band called themselves a “commie fag band” in an early interview in Maximumrocknroll), Floyd was an outsized presence onstage and off, often in drag, with a confrontational style that was an huge influence on punk for years to come. David Yow (Scratch Acid / Jesus LIzard) told Austin Chronicle back in 2013, “It was like Diana Ross meets Johnny Rotten. Especially early on, he was fat, flamboyant, weird, gross, and scary. I think the first time I saw Gary, his hair ...
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