What else could I say? Everyone is gay.

 Headbanger's Ball MTV, 1991.

     That Cobain was seen in his youth as feminine influenced his identity later.  He was bullied with homophobic name calling, which led to his later defiance of hegemonic masculinity.   As previously stated by Cobain, he saw the manly boys who were his peers as idiotic mostly as a result of him being an outcast.  In addition, thinking they were idiotic made him more of an outcast.  His rejection of gender roles started his feminist message.  According to Pierre Tramblay researcher and author on LGBT issues, in his book The Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Factor in the Youth Suicide Problem, in school Cobain came out to his peers as gay which got him beaten and called very homophobic names (115).  The darkness of bullying in Cobain’s youth led to the pain in his lyrics and influenced his passion for women’s and gay people’s rights. Cobain knew what it was to be a victim.



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