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| | MetroActive Music | Pansy Division |
 | | Pansy Division has spent the past eight years singing on the pop-music margins, making catchy, Ramones-style punk for queers who never got down with disco as well as for androgynous indie kids and riot grrls. |
 | | Squeezebox, a Manhattan club that Pansy Division plays every year, was his favorite hangout, a place where skinny go-go boys danced on the bar in tattered Catholic schoolgirl uniforms, and the drag queens seemed to worship David Bowie and Kiss as much as Donna Summer and Gloria Gaynor. |
 | | Pansy Division's failure to crack the alternative-music mainstream has to do, at least partly, with America's inability to fathom openly gay rock stars, despite the easy embrace of ambiguous figures like Mick Jagger, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and David Bowie. |
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