My Chemical Romance Was Toying With Masculinity Long Before It Was Cool

Gerard Way’s band owes just as much to Queen as they do the Cure

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For GQ’s masculinity-themed November issue, the magazine’s editors asked around 1,000 Americans a number of questions on the topic of manliness. Of those surveyed, 97% thought expectations for male behavior had changed in the last 10…