Bob Mould discs beg gay the 1980s, the far-right threateng LGBTQ rights, his recent polil LP 'Blue Hearts', and how he still has fah.
Contents:
- BOB MOULD, ALT-ROCK'S GAY IN, TAK ON AMERIN EVIL: 'MY HEAD'S ON FIRE!'
- INDIE ROCKER BOB MOULD ON WHY TOOK HIM SO LONG TO E OUT AS GAY
- BLUE HEARTS BEATG: AN TERVIEW WH GAY MICIAN BOB MOULD
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- ROCK STAR BOB MOULD THOUGHT GAY MUNY WOULD ‘OSTRACISE’ HIM WHEN HE ME OUT MID-1990S
BOB MOULD, ALT-ROCK'S GAY IN, TAK ON AMERIN EVIL: 'MY HEAD'S ON FIRE!'
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When die-rock pneer Bob Mould me out as gay a 1994 feature for Sp magaze, he was almost 34 years old, and more than a had passed sce his former band, Mneapolis pre-gnge tr Hüsker Dü, had released their but album. “I thk one ncern was jt really how people are gog to look at the work… that people would go back and look at my whole talog and go, ‘Ooh, that song mt have been a gay song!
INDIE ROCKER BOB MOULD ON WHY TOOK HIM SO LONG TO E OUT AS GAY
When die-rock pneer Bob Mould me out as gay a 1994 feature for Sp magaze, he was almost 34 years old, and more than a had passed sce his former band, Mneapolis pre-gnge tr Hüsker Dü, had released their but album. Mould explas that much of his reluctance to e out wasn’t so much out of a fear of backlash the rock world, but more about beg pigeonholed and havg his mic “rentextualized” light of his sexualy. * bob mould gay *
“I thk pecially the '80s, if one were to e out as a ‘gay artist, ’ you got amed that way. "“I thk people that were nnectg wh my '90s band Sugar, maybe those are the folks the muny that e to me and say, ‘That work really meant a lot, and that vio really told whout tellg that you were gay.
BLUE HEARTS BEATG: AN TERVIEW WH GAY MICIAN BOB MOULD
If gay morn rock legend Bob Mould isn’t the harst-workg man mic, he’s fely one of them. To prove that pot, he’s wasted no time followg up 2019’s aptly tled “Sunshe Rock” wh the somewhat bluer “Blue Hearts (Merge).” The album is blue terms of s sexual ntent (check out “Leather . . . * bob mould gay *
I'm gusg some of my fans jt thought was some polil statement, some unaffiliated polil statement, bee there was nothg super-gay about .
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
Mician Bob Mould has reflected on g out the mid-1990s, sayg he thought he would be "ostracised" by the gay muny bee of a magaze article revealg his sexualy. * bob mould gay *
(Photo: Rykodisc)Growg up the ‘60s the small northern New York state town of Malone, Mould said he knew by the time he was 10 years old that he was gay. “Well, I n't really say I knew what ‘gay’ was, bee I grew up a ral farm town and there was nobody gay that I knew about. ” It was only when he moved to the Tw Ci when he was 17 to attend llege that he started to “nont the ia of relatnships or what is beg gay.
Then when we got to , I was still pretty fensive about the ia of beg a mician first and a gay person [send]. "Mould’s evolutn as an openly gay man, however, was far om over. “Personally, I might have been out at 33, but I didn't really feel like I was part of a gay muny until I was 38, 39, New York.
I walked away om mic for a while, and spent time cultivatg my own gay life and my gay inty, and startg to feel whole, feel like a whole beg that directn, ” Mould explas. “I lerally took years away om rock mic jt so that I uld learn who I was, and see if I was able to f to the gay life and feel fortable, and make a difference. Techno artist Richard Morel unr the name Blowoff, and beg volved var charable efforts for gay .
ROCK STAR BOB MOULD THOUGHT GAY MUNY WOULD ‘OSTRACISE’ HIM WHEN HE ME OUT MID-1990S
Hats off to micians the days and kids; if they want to be gay and out, and really forward wh the msage, I thk generally mic fans are more acceptg of that now. ”Read more om Yahoo Entertament:Pete Shelley, lear of semal punk band the Buzzcks, ad at 63'Rocketman' star Taron Egerton on gay storyle: 'I'm very proud that our movie puts ont and center''NSync's Lance Bass says 'mic dtry is still homophobic, ' but ’s time for an openly gay boy bandPop prodigy MNEK on beg a black gay role mol: 'There's nothg wrong wh beg myself'The Dms’ Jonny Pierce: ‘Beg gay lerally saved my life’‘Amerin Idol’ nttant Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon’s brave g-out story: ‘Everybody was a ltle jolted by how transparent I was beg’Follow Lyndsey on Facebook, Twter, Instagram, Google+, Amazon, Tumblr, daily pop culture news livered to your box?