Frances Bean Cobain recently posted her father Kurt Cobain’s mugshot from when he was 19 years old. The arrest is attributed to being for Cobain spray painting ‘God is gay.’
According to the Smoking Gun, the photo is from May 1986: “Kurt Cobain was arrested by Aberdeen, Washington police in May 1986 and charged with trespassing while intoxicated. The misdemeanor bust was not the Nirvana founder’s first brush with the law. The musician had been arrested in Aberdeen a year earlier on a vandalism count.”
Feel Numb wrote, “Cobain was booked for trespassing after he was found on the roof of an abandoned building at 618 W. Market Street, Aberdeen Washington. He was caught, according to the paper, after he ‘wandered onto the roof’ of the building that now houses Juicy Tan and Westside Communications.
His fingerprint card says the date of arrest was May 18, 1986 but I guess he was formally booked on May 25, 1986 as the mugshot photo shows. The 19-year-old Cobain, was hit with other charges that included ‘failure to pay, malicious mischief and minor possession.’
This misdemeanor was not the first time Kurt had been arrested, as he was arrested in Aberdeen a year earlier on a vandalism count. Kurt claimed he wrote “God is gay” on the side of a local Seafirst Bank Building (now Bank of America) in Aberdeen, Washington. However, Aberdeen police records show that the phrase for which he was arrested was actually ‘Ain’t got no how watchamacallit.'”
