He continued, "I was gay, and I liked all these songs that were blatantly heterosexual, so I thought it might be just interesting and different to be doing something coming from the gay perspective. Because of the musical approach, I realized that many people who were not gay would also potentially be an audience for it." I was singing what I wanted to hear, and I realized that's what many other people wanted to hear too. He was gay and wrote the most heart-wrenching, depressing downer of a song then I played "Fem in a Black Leather Jacket" and another song, and the room just came alive. "When I wrote the first few songs, I remember being invited to this party, where people were like, 'Bring your guitar, and you can play your songs.' There's a guy I knew, and he played before me. I wanted it to be entertaining and not sound like propaganda or a lecture." "I wanted our music to be simple, catchy, and I wanted a lot of it to be fast. "People always like to talk about lyrics, and I don't blame them, but the musical approach was critical," Ginoli explained. They also wanted to get the balance right. At the same time, we were laughing our heads off, coming up with songs and saying, 'Can we really sing this in front of people?' What can I say that I haven't said? What have I not heard someone sing about?' That was what drove the early idea of the band that culminated in Undressed."įrom the get-go, Pansy Division's songs were open and honest representations of who they were and their feelings. It was also a time of a terrible political mess, just like we've got now, and all these people were dying of AIDS. "If we put this album out, I don't want to worry that I held anything back or left something out because we're trying to play it safe. "It was our initial voyage out into the world, so we were going to do exactly what we wanted, the way we wanted, because we may never get to make another album," he admitted. Ginoli, the band's guitarist and singer-songwriter, knew Undressed was a pivotal moment for Pansy Division, and they had to get it right. From the beginning, I knew he was the right person, but getting the rest of the lineup filled in was difficult." Chris, who is on bass and vocals, had been looking for an ad like mine, so he reached out immediately, and it worked out instantly. "The band I had in the 80s was in the Midwest, so my musician friends were far away, and none were gay.
I kept thinking other people were going to do it."Īfter waiting a few years and moving to San Francisco, Ginoli put an ad in a local newspaper.
"At a certain point, it dawned on me that the time had come, and it was overdue. However, it seemed like a ridiculous idea in that nobody would want to hear that, given my experiences with how few gay people I met who liked rock music," he recalled. "I'd had this idea to have a gay rock band for a while. Undressed received widespread critical acclaim in the music press when it was released in March 1993, only two years after Ginoli formed Pansy Division. Pansy Division on stage at the San Francisco Pride event in San Francisco, California., in June.
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