Pop prcs Kali Uchis turned up the queer factor at Coachella mic ftival – and lerally screamed 'gay rights.'
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- PALM SPRGS GAY MEN’S CHOS HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLI DRIVE
- KALI UCHIS LERALLY SCREAMS ‘GAY RIGHTS’ DURG COACHELLA 2023 PERFORMANCE
PALM SPRGS GAY MEN’S CHOS HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLI DRIVE
Jt keep breath' and breathg and breath' and breath' and breath' and gays flockg to Ind, California won't be cked out cutoff jeans, floppy hats, tie dye and flower crowns this year. Ok, bis Gran, Coachella is pretty fuckg gay this year. As a gay man attendg the ftival, I knew I was supposed to be moved, but after the weekend's events, I was not sure what to make of the early January, as my ey snaked down the whe font of Coachella's hly announced 2019 lp, my heart-poundg excement soon halted to a pse.
"And whether was to fight the backlash and anti-LGBTQ narrative triggered by his past donatns or double down on his claimed "support [for] the rights of all people whout regard to sexual orientatn, " Anschutz donated $1 ln to the Elton John AIDS Foundatn this ntroversy, as my close iends were blastg my phone wh texts already planng our wild and grandse trek to Ind, Calif., April, I was tryg to sort out what would mean for me -- a gay man -- to jo on the attend the ftival, at first, felt sort of like sellg out my personal and polil beliefs. I was ready to blow the whistle on Coachella's blatant homophobic practic. However, as a cisgenr, whe gay man, I found no such many atten, Coachella even seemed to provi a welg environment for exprsn.
The abundance of rabow imagery rporated to the ftival -- cludg a massive spiralg rabow tower at s center -- add to the notn that Coachella was a place for packs of crop-topped "stagays" olicked around large numbers and jumped up excedly for Kacey Mgrav, I began to unrstand why Coachella had such a large LGBTQ followg. Feelg safe to hold a partner's hand or don a flashy outf is a privilege few queer people get to regularly experience, pecially outsi of hypersexualized spac like gay seemed that a certa openns pervad the ftival that enabled privileged ftivalgoers to transcend societal limatns. And though watchg gay ins Kacey Mgrav and Ariana Gran perform, surround by other visible LGBTQ people, felt fortg, was Lizzo's set that tly moved me.
KALI UCHIS LERALLY SCREAMS ‘GAY RIGHTS’ DURG COACHELLA 2023 PERFORMANCE
However, what I do know for certa is that when Rihanna fally headl Coachella, you n bet my gay ass will be Ind. Ind, California, Beyoncé (AKA Our First Lady Savr of the Gays) took to the ma stage for her headlg set at this year’s Coachella Valley Mic & Arts Ftival.
Odds are that if you are queer, you tuned to the performance one way or another; if every breath Beyoncé tak be stantly inic the gay muny, this show was our asi om Bey’s ftival-stealg performance, another Coachella-centric nversatn saw jt as much attentn, but for a much ls celebratory reason.
For every queer person gaggg about how Queen Bey slayed at the ftival, another queer person was right there to remd them that Coachella has a pretty troubled nnectn wh the queer July 2016, the queer advocy group Freedom for All Amerins published a report showg that Philip Anschutz — the billnaire entreprenr whose last name provis the “A” AEG, the entertament group that owns both Live Natn and Coachella — had donated $190, 000 to anizatns wh anti-gay ti through his Anschutz Foundatn between 2010 and 2013. ” Though he then noted that after learng about their homophobic ti, he immediately stopped donatg to those specific anizatns, was later found that he had ntued to give money to other anizatns wh qutnable ias about LGBTQ+ rights (cludg parisons of homosexualy to ct, rape, and even murr).