God is gay nirvana

What did Kurt mean : Among their arsenal of introspection and raw emotion stands ‘Stay Away’, a track from their seminal album

My musical tastes in high school were broad, to say the least. That line would later end up in his song Stay Away. His mother noted that his personality changed drastically to withdrawn and defiant. Cobain was outspoken on gay rights, homophobia, and sexism.

InCobain did an interview with The Advocate where he recounted that he had spray-painted “God is gay” in several vehicles in his hometown. I fully remember this day. His parents remarried and Cobain seemed to spiral out more. In the lyrics sheet that came inserted in the Lithium single, the lyrics are listed as “God is gay, burn the flag” both thoughts would piss off the right wing conservative red necks he grew up around.

Cobain had a gay friend in high school and at one point contemplated his own sexual orientation. He befriended a fellow student who was gay and endured bullying from peers who assumed, he too, was gay. He unequivocally supported her and appreciated her coming out to him.

At the end of the song, while saying: "Stay away," at one moment Cobain says, "God is gay," which is something he spray painted on a classmate's car in high school as a way of pushing his buttons. 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.

It was eight months before I would graduate high school. I had only started driving about a month prior and loved the freedom it gave me.

At that time I was struggling with my feelings of being gay and keeping them hidden. He had been surrounded by music most of his childhood. He would later spend a portion of his life with a born-again Christian family, where he became a devout Christian.

His only worry was for the discrimination she would have to endure, especially from their homophobic mother. Gen Xers witnessed a phenomenon grow and become the mindset of that generation. In his journals, we wrote extensively about how this music impacted him.

He was offered a bike, but Cobain declined. During his life, his sister ended up coming out to him. The rumblings of this event started four years earlier in Aberdeen, Washington. It was music that seemed to speak to my very rebellious soul.

It would shift when I heard the angry guitars and yelping cracked voice of a new singer, Kurt Cobain. September 24,marked the day when the music world changed. While he renounced Christianity, religion would be a large part of his life.

Buzz would introduce Cobain to punk and hardcore. Cobain never minded the rumors, as most people tended to leave him alone. His views on prejudice would start in high school. Oh well, whatever, never mind. Cobain learned to play guitar in high school after receiving a used one from his Uncle.