You know, I often say that I was immensely lucky in that when I came out, I only lost one friend. However, it was the first person I came out to, and they were an experimental artist, which -- art just always seems like the purview of the left. It really took me by surprise.
Tonight, I was going through my collection and read up on the right wing, fascist, and racist associations of some of the bands that that particular friend got me into. I wouldn't say I was ever fully on board, but they bought me some media as gifts from time to time and I liked a couple of songs in a very naive way.
I made the choice to purge their music from our media server. I have to decide what to do with the physical media.
I had gotten the idea that that friend had become very... distracted by certain misogynist male thinkers, which never seemed great. But I think maybe there was more under the surface that at the time I didn't have the context to examine carefully. It's disappointing and kind of sad, and I wish I'd been a better influence when we were young.
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