[2] At age nineteen, Freeman was going to marry a girl that he played in a band with, before breaking it off and admitting he was gay.

[4] With Freeman playing bass, and Ginoli guitar, Pansy Division went through a series of drummers before settling on Luis Illades, who has been in the band since 1996.

They became known as one of the founders of the queercore genre of punk rock, and received mainstream recognition by being Green Day's opening act for their first arena tour in 1994.

The band met their guitarist Steve McKnight after Freeman found an ad he posted on the gay personals site DaddyHunt.

One of his classmates was Michael Carmona, who would go on to direct the 2008 documentary film Pansy Division: Life In a Gay Rock Band, which Freeman edited and co-produced.