As he sang in “Controversy,” Prince luxuriated in not conforming to any easy classification as male or female, black or white, straight or gay—and as his career developed, we might also add secular or sacred, fanatically insular or generously
Years before the leaders of the gay and lesbian community began to embrace a more nuanced, less binary notion of queerness—and decades before transgender and genderqueer politics became mainstream topics of interest—Prince presented a living
I wasn't sure if he was straight, gay, bi, or even male or female—such was the fluid electricity of his persona, one that galvanized our puritanical country long before gender became everyday discourse, filling it with the throbbing sounds of passion
With the death Thursday of Prince Rogers Nelson, you may see a strange mix on your Facebook feed of sex and religion. That's because perhaps one of the raunchiest, steamiest pop culture figures in the past quarter-century was a conservative Christian.
With the death Thursday of Prince Rogers Nelson, you may see a strange mix on your Facebook feed of sex and religion. That's because perhaps one of the raunchiest, steamiest pop culture figures in the past quarter-century was a conservative Christian.