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Entry tags:
- date of story:band era,
- date of story:pre-band era,
- date:1993,
- date:band era,
- decade of story:1980s,
- decade of story:1990s,
- decade:1990s,
- interview:the advocate '93,
- media:magazine,
- media:quote,
- person:courtney love,
- person:kurt,
- topic:bisexuality,
- topic:coming out,
- topic:friendship,
- topic:gender-nonconformity,
- topic:homosexuality,
- topic:intimacy & affection,
- topic:sexuality,
- type:factual
Quote: Kurt's bisexual lifestyle pre-Courtney (1993)
Interviewer: Because people thought you were gay and you had gay friends, did you ever wonder if you might be gay?
Kurt: Yeah, absolutely. See I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl. Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all. They had really awful haircuts and fucked-up attitudes. So I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.
I mean, I'm definitely gay in spirit, and I probably could be bisexual. [...] If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual life-style.
(The Advocate 1993)