Dustin Lance Black’s Doc ‘Rock Out’ Examines LGBTQ Influence on Heavy Metal, Punk and Rock N’ Roll: ‘It Became Clear That a Queer History Had Been Erased’

Dustin Lance Black’s Doc ‘Rock Out’ Examines LGBTQ Influence on Heavy Metal, Punk and Rock N’ Roll: ‘It Became Clear That a Queer History Had Been Erased’

Dustin Lance Black not only directed the new documentary “Rock Out” about the queer influence on heavy metal, punk and rock n’ roll, but he’s also in it. For good reason. The feature pulls inspiration from a New York Times article by Jim Farber that examined the queer influence on rock, as wells as a question that Black’s late brother Marcus asked before he died 14 years ago: “Are there any gays like me?” Marcus was a queer punk rock n’ ro…