“I felt that my shitty feelings and angst were being taken seriously.”ĭuella Couture, a Seattle-based drag performer who put on a sold-out MCR-themed drag night in November, speaks to how important the band’s 2006 album Welcome to the Black Parade was for queer kids when it came out, due to how it confronted heavy topics in an accessible way. Gita, a 22-year-old student based in Quezon City, Philippines, realized as a young adult that she and all her friends in middle who were big fans of MCR “turned out gay.” Over Twitter DM, she says that it makes sense in retrospect, considering the band’s music “celebrated outcasts” and expressed themselves in a melodramatic, almost campy way: “I listened to MCR because their music had a degree of drama to it that maybe other people would have found over the top or silly,” she says.
