Prevly unheard terview wh Nirvana's Kurt Coba rerd ls than a year before he died. Cob talks about inty, beg gay, and pa that drove his songs, lyrics and mic.
Contents:
- KURT COBA'S 1993 ADVOTE COVER STORY: 'I'M GAY SPIR'
- Y, KURT COBA WAS A GNGE IN. HE WAS ALSO A GAY RIGHTS HERO.
- KURT COBA ON INTY“I EVEN THOUGHT THAT I WAS GAY. I THOUGHT THAT MIGHT BE THE SOLUTN TO MY PROBLEM.”MORE EPISOSWAYNE COYNE ON LIVG WH DEATH
- THE REASON KURT COBA PRETEND TO BE GAY FOR YEARS
KURT COBA'S 1993 ADVOTE COVER STORY: 'I'M GAY SPIR'
In the 25 years sce the Nirvana lead sger died, many have fotten he was a gay rights activist who stated he "probably uld be bisexual." * kurt cobain was gay *
The men were proudly sexist and homophobic (Skid Row's Sebastian Bach famoly wore a T-shirt that read, "AIDS Kills Fags Dead"), on the other hand, was sensive and effemate -- someone who regularly spoke out for mori and lled out racism, misogyny, and homophobia. While many remember Coba and his Nirvana bandmat wearg drs and kissg vios and live performanc, virtually fotten is the fact that Nirvana performed at a gay rights benef Oregon promotg Nirvana's late-1992 pilatn album Inctici -- which clud the followg statement s ler not, "If any of you any way hate homosexuals, people of different lor, or women, please do this one favor for : leave the fuck alone!
In the Advote article, Coba displayed fort speakg wh an LGBTQ publitn and a faiary wh gay culture, often g terms like "homophobia" and "misogyny, " appreciatg the scriptn of Love as a "fag hag, " and rellg the time he saw the Village People are some of the choict quot om the terview wh journalist Kev Advote: I read the ler not you wrote on Inctici. I've never seen somebody on a major label say, "If you're a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, we don't want you to buy our rerds. I n talk about those issu terviews -- I thk 's pretty obv that we're agast the homophob and the sexists and the racists, but when "Teen Spir" first me out, mastream dienc were unr the assumptn that we were jt like Guns N' were his words: "You shut your bch up, or I'm takg you down to the pavement.
Those people are total sexist jerks, and the reason we're playg this show is to fight homophobia a real small way.
Y, KURT COBA WAS A GNGE IN. HE WAS ALSO A GAY RIGHTS HERO.
The guy is a fuckg sexist and a racist and a homophobe, and you n't be on his si and be on our si. " [Lghs]You know, you were probably takg money om people who were votg y on 9 [an antigay ballot measure] -- but they really wanted to see Nirvana. I ed to pretend I was gay jt to fuck wh people.
I've had the reputatn of beg a homosexual every day sce I was 14. It was really ol, bee I found a uple of gay iends Aberen [Wash.
KURT COBA ON INTY“I EVEN THOUGHT THAT I WAS GAY. I THOUGHT THAT MIGHT BE THE SOLUTN TO MY PROBLEM.”MORE EPISOSWAYNE COYNE ON LIVG WH DEATH
How I uld ever e across a gay person Aberen is amazg! But once I got the gay tag, gave me the eedom to be able to be a eak and let people know that they should jt stay away om me.
Instead of havg to expla to someone that they should jt stay the fuck away om me-I'm gay, so I n't even be touched. Que a few you ed to spray-pat GOD IS GAY on people's tcks?
Bee people thought you were gay and you had gay iends, did you ever wonr if you might be gay? And I've always been a really sickly, feme person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while bee I didn't fd any of the girls my high school attractive at all. So I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm jt more sexually attracted to women.
THE REASON KURT COBA PRETEND TO BE GAY FOR YEARS
But I'm really glad that I found a few gay iends, bee totally saved me om beg a monk or somethg.
I mean, I'm fely gay spir, and I probably uld be bisexual. That was all she did for about five or six years of her life-hang out gay clubs. He tried to take away the ban on gays the ary, and I thk that's a pretty posive thg.
Coba is the Gen X in who popularized alternative mic and culture, but on the 25th anniversary of his ath this week, I cherish another aspect of his legacy much more: his nsistent and vol support of gay rights. Coba’s “oh well, whatever, never md” attu about sexual inty, exprsed lyrics and terviews, changed the urse of my Coba might not be the first name you thk of when to gay rights, his band was never shy about s polics, pecially where LGBTQ issu were ncerned. In 1992, Nirvana played a “No on #9” benef ncert and issued a public statement opposg Measure 9, a statewi anti-gay cizen ballot iative Oregon that would have required “all ernments” the state to treat homosexualy as “abnormal, wrong, unnatural and perverse.