Faith No More member came out to Kurt Cobain
In a new interview with The Guardian, former Faith No More keyboardist Roddy Bottum spoke about his friendship with Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. According to Bottum, the Nirvana frontman was one of the few people who instantly accepted him when he publicly came out as gay in the early ‘90s.
Before coming out, Bottom admits he had never even discussed his sexuality with his bandmates. “They were open minded, they would have been OK with it,” he explained. “It was the damage of being a gay kid in that era, the damage of the shame and homophobia.”
Cobain, however, embraced him with open arms.
“Kurt was like a unicorn,” Bottum said. “He wanted to be gay – Kurt loved the provocation of that. I think that’s why we were really good friends. He loved that I was gay, that that was a thing he got to be around. He was a very special person.”
Reflecting on his decision to come out publicly, Bottom said: “I was the only out queer guy in rock. Freddie Mercury hadn’t come out before he died. Michael Stipe didn’t talk about it, nor Rob Halford, nor Bob Mould. It made me angry. I needed to put myself on that page of history, to get people to accept a queer person in music.”
