Pansy Division, Fem in a Black Leather Jacket | Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈

In the 1^st edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight the song, “Fem in a Black Leather Jacket” performed by Pansy Division. 

Prepare to beam with P-R-I-D-E 🏳️‍🌈! Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 celebrates, embraces, and spotlights songs by LGBTQ musicians or allies.  In this column, we provide background and insight into the respective musician(s), as well as analyze + go gaga over the decadent bops being served up.  Furthermore, when the music dictates deeper, more transcendent discussion, we ensure the point is articulated to the fullest.  All styles of music are welcome while the songs can be classics or brand-spanking new. So, without further ado, in the 1^st edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight “Fem in a Black Leather Jacket” performed by Pansy Division.

“I don’t like macho, put it away / Doesn’t appeal to me, straight or gay.” That’s fair, Jon Ginoli. Furthermore, toxic masculinity freakin’ sucks! On “Fem in a Black Leather Jacket” (Undressed, 1991), the first openly gay rock band, Pansy Division, prefer more feminine men.  In the chorus, Ginoli characterizes this boy who caught his eye: “He’s a fem in a black leather jacket / And I wanna take him home with me.” Expectedly, as “Fem in a Black Leather Jacket” progresses, more details are fit in over the said fem.  Even as Pansy Division embrace this feminine male stance, it must be noted that the music doesn’t sacrifice the masculinity of rock.

So, what makes this fem fine and hot? It includes a “Cute little butt and sexy hips.” Ooh la-la!  Furthermore, androgyny is encouraged, with gender norms out the door: “He looks as good in a skirt as he does in jeans.” Similar to Diana Ross on “Muscles”, the personality is not a priority. Ross noted, “They say they have to see / His real personality / But that’s alright for them / Still it ain’t enough for me.” As for Ginoli, he sings: “His personality, I’m not impressed / But I can’t wait to get him undressed.” Ooh-wee! All told, the two-minutes-and-change “Fem in a Black Leather Jacket” is fab to the nth degree. Pansy Division proved the gays can rock TF out too and speak about LGBTQ topics.

🎙 Pansy Division • 💿 Undressed • 🏷 DistroKid • 📅 1991

Pansy Division, Fem in a Black Leather Jacket: Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 No. 1 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; DistroKid; Elias Souza, Los Muertos Crew from Pexels; CatsWithGlasses, Maicon Fonseca Zanco, Square Frog, Sudo from Pixabay]