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Kurt: "Obviously it's a tragedy, something terrible. A lot of artists are sick and don't think the government cares a fuck. In twelve years, the Republicans have preferred to see people with AIDS, homosexuals, as people of a lower class and have preferred to see the genocide of these people. Imagine if we still put people in gas chambers; they still have that shit working. They ignore it and haven't contributed funds to stop the disease. It's very sad.
There was so much promotion that you would have to be an idiot not to know that today you've got to use condoms or not share a needle. That promotion had the effect of slowing AIDS. You attempted to lower the number of patients by means of promotion. After that, they talk about conspiracies and stuff. I don't know enough to just give an opinion." *
-31 Oct 1992, Argentina
*Archivist's note: This interview was translated into a foreign language and then back into English. It seems clear that some nuance was lost due to awkward/imprecise translation.
tags:
- book:cobain on cobain,
- date:1992,
- date:band era,
- decade of story:1980s,
- decade:1990s,
- media:book,
- person:kurt,
- topic:aids,
- topic:art & artists,
- topic:chronic illness,
- topic:death & suicide,
- topic:drugs & addiction,
- topic:fascism,
- topic:genocide,
- topic:homophobia,
- topic:homosexuality,
- topic:politics,
- type:factual
