GayCay, 2017 - Present

GayCay began as a nomadic space for experimentation between multidisciplinary artists and partners Edgar Fabián Frías and Thaddeus Pedisich. They create frenzied minimal synthpunk, the likes of DAF, Nitzer Ebb, and Adult. Formed in Los Angeles in 2017, GayCay's intention is to be a platform for a collective message of hope and the urgency of queer and trans liberation. Emerging from the Portland underground music scene, Pedisich's former musical projects include PinkSlime and Dopesmoker (PDX), among others. Frías, a contemporary artist originally from Southern California, has exhibited internationally and has a solo project called Galaxias Eternas. The band self-released their first self-titled debut in 2020.

“Inexplicable as their personas as futurist beekeepers in a symbiotic biosphere, the music of duo GayCay is pertinently off-the-wall yet catchier than any known car dealership jingle. Their influences are obvious to the weird music adept but their message is more of an incantation for a world liberated from the confines of ecocide and heteronormativity.”

Lilian Void, CVLT NATION, GayCay - The Queer Mutants of Synthpunk, July 22, 2020.

“GayCay is a Los Angeles-based duo made up of Edgar Fabián Frías and Thaddeus Pedisich that makes frenzied, electronic punk that calls for queer liberation through pounding kick drums and wiry synths."

Nastia Voynovskaya, SF Chronicle. They performed their first show on Friday, Aug. 4. The Lab, 2948 16th St., S.F. for the Universe is Lit, a Bay Area black & brown punk festival.

GayCay has both a digital album available and a tape Queer Mutants Unite released through Cult Love Sound Tapes.

GayCay performed as a part of ABUNDANCE at LA Dance Project, presented by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) on Thursday, April 25, 2024.

ABUNDANCE presented cutting edge performance art and interdisciplinary work by artists whose lived experiences as non-traditional or fat bodies challenged intersectional forms of oppression. ABUNDANCE was a call to taking up space with pride, generosity, and a spirit of collectivity. This assembly of artists invited the public to witness and participate in the reclamation of our own plentiful bodies: disrupting the status quo and forging liberatory ways of being through community.

Held over three days at L.A. Dance Project, ABUNDANCE included re-stagings and new work by performance, sound, and literary artists Patrisse Cullors with Ashley Blakeney and Darius Williams, Edgar Fabián Frías, GayCay, Jessica Carolina González, Vanessa Hernández Cruz, Alima Lee, Caleb Luna, Melba Martínez, Cody Perkins with Sabrina Johnson, Ghis Rodríguez, Yesika Salgado, and Dorian Wood. Responding to the word “abundance,” these artists examined the politics of their existence through the way they saw and experienced the world, with abundant, generous, humorous, joyful, or rageful entry points that put our collective and individual biases into question. Two Fat Girls Press (@twofatgirlspress) were onsite offering a selection of zines available for purchase.

Documentation is courtesy of the artist and LACE. Photographer: Angel Origgi.