Editing Dee Snider (section)

==Personal life==
Snider has been married to his wife Suzette, a costume designer, since 1981.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0811124/bio |title = Dee Snider - Biography |website = IMDb.com |access-date = 2017-01-20}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{YouTube |S0Vyr1TylTE |'Dee Snider PMRC Senate Hearing Speech' (Full)}}</ref>

In 2003, Snider's brother-in-law, Vincent Gargiulo, was murdered.<ref>{{cite news |title = Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider stands by wife Suzette at trial of LI killer gym rat|date = April 25, 2013 |url = https://nypost.com/2013/04/25/twisted-sister-singer-dee-snider-stands-by-wife-suzette-at-trial-of-li-killer-gym-rat/ |publisher = nypost.com |first = Mitchel |last = Maddux}}</ref> The killer was apprehended in 2009.

Snider lived part-time in [[East Setauket, New York]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/dee-sniders-house/ |title = Dee Snider's House in East Setauket, NY  |publisher = Virtual Globetrotting |date = 2007-08-25 |access-date = 2017-01-20}}</ref> He appeared on ''[[MTV Cribs]]'' in 2005 to show his [[Long Island, New York|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 the "mistakes" [[George W. Bush]] had made [[Presidency of George W. Bush|while in office]].<ref>{{YouTube |Y0Wl80EQy68 |Dee Snider Talks About Obama}}</ref> In 2024, Snider reflected on the [[2024 United States presidential election|presidential election]] held that year, and regarding the victory of Trump said, "I’m disappointed that most of my countrymen, both men and women, can’t see the big picture."<ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. Rocker Dee Snider: My great-grandfather was shot dead by Russian soldiers in front of his son – I understand why you feel the way you do |url=https://www.delfi.lt/en/politics/us-rocker-dee-snider-my-great-grandfather-was-shot-dead-by-russian-soldiers-in-front-of-his-son-i-understand-why-you-feel-the-way-you-do-120063332 |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=Delfi EN |language=lt}}</ref>