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Fascinating subject covered in this article.
I'm a gender and sexuality scholar. Here's how the media blew it on Prince. - Vox
Personally, I am sucked into trying to understand these types of dichotomies. Prince was vocally anti-gay and supposedly a devout Jehovah Witness Christian (born a 7th Day Adventist--which is just as nutty), but yet he had sex parties, dressed like a queen and did pretty much everything Freddie Mercury was known for except admit to it. What always puzzles me is. How do we define that person?
Maybe, it needs no definition.
IMO, Prince was a very bisexual individual who had such a ****ed up religion that he could not openly admit to his identity. So, he hid it in the closet and did his behavior on the sly. Not that he was good at hiding it...I dare say.
I'm a gender and sexuality scholar. Here's how the media blew it on Prince. - Vox
Personally, I am sucked into trying to understand these types of dichotomies. Prince was vocally anti-gay and supposedly a devout Jehovah Witness Christian (born a 7th Day Adventist--which is just as nutty), but yet he had sex parties, dressed like a queen and did pretty much everything Freddie Mercury was known for except admit to it. What always puzzles me is. How do we define that person?
Maybe, it needs no definition.
Here's what I teach my students in diversity and mass communication: If people self-identify as something, we should take their words for it. If people don't want to self-identify as something, we shouldn't force it on them. But mainstream thought posits: "If a man dresses like a woman, doesn't that make him queer? If a man has sex with other men, doesn't that make him gay?"
Not necessarily.
Prince tried to help us understand the differences between identity (how we think of ourselves), behavior (what we do), and perception (how others think of us). Prince dismantled and queered what contemporary culture has tried to bracket.
For those of you who are too young to remember, or for those of you who are old enough to forget: Perhaps the apparent controversy demands a peruse through the archives....
IMO, Prince was a very bisexual individual who had such a ****ed up religion that he could not openly admit to his identity. So, he hid it in the closet and did his behavior on the sly. Not that he was good at hiding it...I dare say.