Is griz gay

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Today, the DJ and producer Grant Kwiecinski, known to fans as GRiZ,issued a statement via Huffington Post coming out to the world as gay.

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He also touches on how music and culture has a heteronormative slant, dissecting how the common social and cultural norms only amplified his desire to keep his true sexual orientation a secret and heightened his sense of loneliness. It won’t always be easy, but the battle is worth it. He also describes how he suffered from anxiety and depression because of the stress of keeping the act up.

It wasn’t until college that Kwiecinski felt that he could come out in his own skin and live openly gay.

Yes, there is a lot of negativity and hate. The last thing any teen wants is to be ‘uncool.’ Hell, the typical lingo for things that were lame was ‘gay’ and someone who wasn’t cool ‘fag’ or ‘faggot.’ Every day those words are so casually tossed into conversation as if it were true. Years. Keep on doing you, GRiZ!

“But then you choose toride the next wave with confidence. Turns out, the DJ is gay and wants you all to know about it.

Kwiecinski writes about knowing that something was different about him when he was younger, eventually repressed those feelings for fear of scrutiny and all the other things closted LGBTQ people face when coming out.

“For most guys, thoughts about girls went from “gross” to “I wonder what boobs feel like,” from “ew, koodies” to “let’s mack on some cuties,” Kwiecinski writes.

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He tells his readers, “If at this point you are telling yourself this sounds even mildly familiar, and you have so perfectly and with great pain kept your secret to yourself, I have one thing to tell you. As his most creatively ambitious, most sonically robust, and most personal project to date, the 14-track album features collaborations with major artists like Wiz Khalifa, Snoop Dogg, Matisyahu, DRAM, and Bootsy Collins, and sees the producer taking his sound toward uncharted territories in hip-hop, pop, and dance music, all while keeping the funky GRiZ sound intact.Ride Waves is GRiZ’s musical culmination following a full year of self-reflection and creative development, a time during which he initiated an extended, eight-month-long social media blackout to refocus on personal self-discovery and his own artistic growth.Ride Waves, then, is his expression of what GRiZ calls “the emotional roller coaster that is life,” with the album title reflecting all the exhilarating highs and painful lows we all experience on the daily.“ Sometimes in life, there are big-ass waves that you try and ride, and then you fail,” GRiZ says of the meaning behindRide Waves.

These secrets are heavy, with their ability to “drive you crazy and make you think, feel, and do crazy, sometimes harmful, shit,” and for a long time, Kwiecinski carried his alone.

However, GRiZ’s coming out statement is ultimately crafted as a positive message to others, particularly to younger kids who may struggle themselves with the same problems he faced.

If they don’t then they weren’t actually your friends in the first place.” In reference to this public coming out, he ends with this: “I believe in the goodness of people. . There were no openly gay role models in culture for me to look up to at the time to dispel that myth.”

Read GRiZ’s full article, “My name is GRiZ and .

GRiZ makes palpable “the struggle of coming to grips with your sexuality” and how it “can dominate your world,” noting that he would frequently find himself “laying in bed late every night depressed, stressing, losing sleep, praying to God” that he wasn’t gay, and later touching on his subsequent anxiety and the ill effects of using medication to control his anxiety.