Onstage at his first Pri performance, Pierce told the dience, “I ed to pray not to be gay. Now I pray to be more gay. Gay is good.”
Contents:
- THE DMS’ JONNY PIERCE: ‘BEG GAY LERALLY SAVED MY LIFE’
- THE DMS’ JONNY PIERCE SHAR HIS ‘ABYSMAL THOUGHTS’ ON LOVE, LOSS, AND GROWG UP GAY: 'I WANT EVERYTHG TO JT BE OK'
- JONNY PIERCE (THE DMS) TALKS GAY CONVERSN THERAPY, HIS TE VOICE AND FEAR
- SONG OF THE GAY: THE DMS - HEART BASEL
THE DMS’ JONNY PIERCE: ‘BEG GAY LERALLY SAVED MY LIFE’
“They were both very anti-gay. He’s certaly a long way om where he was while dog prs for the band’s but album 2009, when he “full-on lied” about his sexualy to a Sunday Tim reporter who somewhat tsively asked if he or any of his bandmat were gay. “I am gay, and that’s gog to show through my art, ” he now says nfintly.
THE DMS’ JONNY PIERCE SHAR HIS ‘ABYSMAL THOUGHTS’ ON LOVE, LOSS, AND GROWG UP GAY: 'I WANT EVERYTHG TO JT BE OK'
If I’m not talkg about beg gay, I feel like I’m not really beg an artist. When die-rock band the Dms, led by openly gay sger-songwrer Jonny Pierce, performed this month at the Los Angel Pri Ftival, marked another major personal and profsnal tone for Pierce, who raised a small town by strict, unsupportive, Pentestal preacher parents.
The tth is that for a lot of my life I’ve celebrated homosexualy, but remaed homophobic towards myself. I uldn’t feel more lucky to be gay — and I uldn’t be more exced to play L. ”After his Pri performance, Yahoo Entertament sat down wh Pierce, age 37, to discs his long and sometim paful journey om beg a closeted kid to out-and-proud queer in, and why he now believ that beg gay ultimately saved his Entertament: For years, you didn’t want to participate any Pri events.
Jonny Pierce: I thk Pri is ultimately a really good thg, but at the same time I don't always feel that my versn of homosexualy is reflected a Gay Pri event self.
JONNY PIERCE (THE DMS) TALKS GAY CONVERSN THERAPY, HIS TE VOICE AND FEAR
I thk a lot of tim when people thk of Gay Pri, they thk of the most flamboyant, extreme versn of Pri or beg gay and you know, I jt never felt like accepted that muny. I want to celebrate everyone who's gay. Onstage at Pri, you told the dience, “I ed to pray not to be gay.
Now I pray to be more gay.
SONG OF THE GAY: THE DMS - HEART BASEL
Gay is good.
And I don't thk I'd be standg there, you know, if wasn't for beg gay. So beg gay lerally saved my life.