of the song by demonstrators in Fort Lauderdale protesting face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Snider approved the use of "We're Not Gonna Take It" by the Ukrainians. Personal life Snider has been married to his wife Suzette, a costume designer, since 1981. They have four children, Jesse Blaze Snider (born September 19, 1982), Shane Royal Snider (born February 29, 1988), Cody Blue Snider (born December 7, 1989), and Cheyenne Jean Snider (born October 31, 1996) who was in the band They All Float. He also has four grandchildren. In the 1985 Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) Senate hearings, Snider stated: "I was born and raised a Christian, and I still adhere to those principles." In 2003, Snider's brother-in-law, Vincent Gargiulo, was murdered. The killer was apprehended in 2009. Snider lived part-time in East Setauket, New York. He appeared on MTV Cribs in 2005 to show his Long Island home, along with two of his four children, Shane and Cheyenne. In 2008, he stated in a TMZ interview that he would be voting for Barack Obama because John McCain (whom he liked and supported for many years) would not acknowledge George W. Bush's mistakes that he made while in office. Projects Books In 1987, Snider and co-author Philip Bashe published Dee Snider's Teenage Survival Guide, a self-help manual for adolescence. His autobiography, Shut up and give me the mic, was published in 2012. He wrote We're Not Gonna Take It, a children's book illustrated by Margaret McCartney, which was published in 2020. In 2022, a graphic novel collaboration between Snider, writer Frank Marraffino, and artist Steve Kurth, was announced by Z2 Comics, scheduled for publication in 2023. Bands Twisted Sister (Disbanded 2016) Desperado Widowmaker Bent Brother (Twisted Sister occasionally made small tours around the world, in full makeup, and previous to those performances, performed as Bent Brother, practicing their set and appearing without makeup, usually at reduced ticket prices) Discography Solo albums Never Let the Bastards Wear You Down (2000) Dee Does Broadway (2012) We Are the Ones (2016) For the Love of Metal (2018) Leave a Scar (2021) Guest appearances "Eleanor Rigby" on Eddie Ojeda's Axes 2 Axes, 2005 "SCG3 Special Report" on Lordi: The Arockalypse, 2006 "The Haunting" on Ghostlights, by Avantasia, 2016 "Contract Song" on XXX : 30 Years in Metal by Hansen, 2016 "True Rocker"