Punk Rock is Political, Cleveland’s Gay Metal Bar Won’t Let You Forget

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As the first sounds of the show start to drift past the security at the door, the group disappears inside the venue, No Class. Cleveland’s second-best gay bar, the space’s dive-y aesthetic and all-black sticker-covered interior sets the expectation immediately that you’re there to see a punk or metal band on stage. Existing for years as Now That’s Class before Jochum took ownership, the space organically transformed from crust punk hovel to its current existence as No Class, what can only be described as a gay metal bar. “A lot of metal dudes are not into politics at all, or if they are, they’re into the wrong politics,” Jochum continued. In June, her bar hosted a Punk is Political meet-and-greet for city council candidate Tanmay Shah.