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Kurt Cobain’s Mother Wouldn’t Let Him Hang Out With Gay Friend As A Kid

9bd6c545Yeah. Yeah. I even thought that I was gay. I thought that might be the solution to my problem. Although I never experimented with it, I had a gay friend, and then my mother wouldn’t allow me to be friends with him anymore because… well, she’s homophobic. It was real devastating because finally I found a male friend who I actually hugged and was affectionate too, and we talked about a lot of things… I couldn’t hang out with him anymore.”

 

— Late rock icon Kurt Cobain asked if he had problems with people thinking he was gay as a kid, in a recently unearthed interview with PBS from 1993

 

H/t: Huffington Post

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