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Depending on which website you ask, the photo above, taken May, 1986 in Aberdeen, WA, is either a mugshot from when Kurt Cobain was arrested for trespassing or from when Kurt Cobain was arrested for vandalizing a wall with the expression “God is gay.” Or maybe it was “Homo sex rules.” Or, if police records are to be believed, “Ain’t got no whatchamacallit.” Internet confusion abounds over which incident the shot is connected with and what he actually spray painted when he did spray paint something, but what’s clear is that Cobain was arrested twice in a limited period of time, and when asked years later about his vandalism accuse, he wanted people to believe he wrote something provocative that referenced homosexuality. The specifics become less significant when you consider that the phrase “God is gay” reached more eyeballs by way of interviews than it ever would have on that wall in Aberdeen, and even more ears as the final lyrics of the 10th track of one of the best selling records of all time.
Cobain’s vandalism may involve elements of myth, but his distaste for homophobia was well documented. Two exa
How Kurt Cobain Influenced LGBTQ Rights
September 24, 1991, marked the day when the music world changed. The rumblings of this event started four years earlier in Aberdeen, Washington. Gen Xers witnessed a phenomenon expand and become the mindset of that generation.
I fully keep in mind this day. It was eight months before I would graduate high institution. I had only started driving about a month prior and loved the freedom it gave me. My musical tastes in tall school were broad, to say the least. It would shift when I heard the irate guitars and yelping cracked voice of a new singer, Kurt Cobain. It was music that seemed to talk to my very rebellious soul.
At that time I was struggling with my feelings of creature gay and keeping them hidden. I would pop in this cassette into my 73 Dodge Dart and blast it on the way to or from work and feel oddly liberated. “I found it hard, so difficult to find. Oh well, whatever, never mind.” Would echo in my intellect and give me my angst to rise in apathy against the rules I felt held me down. But I never idea how Kurt Cobain would influence the world or how Kurt Cobain would influence LGBTQ rights.
Smells Like Teen Spirit
“You know, I felt so d Kurt tore himself to shreds worrying about fame and selling out. In Utero, the follow-up to Nevermind, was deliberately abrasive while Nirvana often refused to play Smells Like Teen Energy in concert. But their MTV Unplugged concert - released as an album after Kurt's death - showed how the band could have survived in the longer term. It's unusual for a live record - in that it sidesteps the band's hits in favour of more obscure songs and a slate of covers very few people had ever heard of (including three tunes by The Meat Puppets). But it is beautifully, nakedly emotional. Kurt performed the place in one unbroken take, surrounded by lilies (the flowers of death) hunched over in his oversized cardigan. His fingers sometimes fumbled on the unfamiliar acoustic guitar, but that only heightened the frailty of his lyrics. If the band needed to find a way out of the corner they'd backed themselves into, this was it. Favor Dylan going electric, but in reverse. "I'll never forget after we did Unplugged, how happy Kurt was - he was so happy," bassist Krist Novoselic told the BBC's Seven Ages of Rock pro .
Six reasons why we still love Kurt Cobain