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."
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 EPISOSLOUIS ARMSTRONG ON KEEPG HIS CHOPS
- KURT COBA’S MOTHER FORCED HIM TO GIVE UP GAY IEND
- REDISVERED INTERVIEW REVEALS KURT COBA THOUGHT HE WAS GAY
KURT COBA'S 1993 ADVOTE COVER STORY: 'I'M GAY SPIR'
* kurt cobain gay friend *
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.
Y, KURT COBA WAS A GNGE IN. HE WAS ALSO A GAY RIGHTS HERO.
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. * kurt cobain gay friend *
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.
KURT COBA ON INTY“I EVEN THOUGHT THAT I WAS GAY. I THOUGHT THAT MIGHT BE THE SOLUTN TO MY PROBLEM.”MORE EPISOSLOUIS ARMSTRONG ON KEEPG HIS CHOPS
In a 1993 terview, posted onle last week by PBS Digal Studs, the rocker add: “I even thought that I was gay." * kurt cobain gay friend *
Those people are total sexist jerks, and the reason we're playg this show is to fight homophobia a real small way. 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.
KURT COBA’S MOTHER FORCED HIM TO GIVE UP GAY IEND
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.
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?
REDISVERED INTERVIEW REVEALS KURT COBA THOUGHT HE WAS GAY
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.