Was chester bennington gay
The news of the death of Chester Bennington, front man and lead singer of Linkin Park, affected me deeply. This was strange: a lot of musical greats have died recently—Prince, Bowie, Chuck Berry—and while each death mournful me, I refrained from outward shows of grief. This time was different.
It felt even stranger because, for the majority of my adult life, Linkin Park has been small more than the butt of a joke. It’s the kind of band some people associate with their emo teens, and thus worthy of derision. I even have an carried on joke with some coworkers: who can sneak the most of the lyrics of “In The End” into a design review as possible?
“I tried so hard!” “And got so far!” “But in the end, you know. It doesn’t even matter.”
That’s usually as far as I get before I get a crumpled sticky note thrown at me. But there was a time when I learned every word to that song, and those words were a mantra to me, a refrain that I could use to feel stronger.
Bennington’s death slap me hard in part because of how he died. I found out through a tweet, obscurely referencing his death and calling for the squeeze to report it responsibly as he had died of suicide. I im
November LGBTQ music: Linkin Park and Alice Longyu Gao
November 2024 music roundup
This month, Gay City News reviews the latest albums by the veteran rock band Linkin Park, whose new singer Emily Anderson is lgbtq+, and non-binary, pansexual hyperpop singer Alice Longyu Gao.
Linkin Park |“From Zero” | Warner Records
What a difference tragedy makes! When Linkin Park first emerged, their lyrics sounded angst-ridden in a particularly adolescent manner. Ballad after song recounts a struggle with mental health: the titles of their hits tell the story: “In the End,” “Numb,” “Close to the Edge.” After singer Chester Bennington’s suicide in 2017, all this seems different. Rather than a calculated image, the darkness in their tune was real. But they’ve never been hip, unlike the Deftones, who started out from a similar mixture of hard rock, hip-hop and electronic pop influences. Critic Ian Mather wrote “to the extent that Linkin Park ever were/are cool, it’s at least partly because they absolutely do not appear to care if some people come across them cringey.”
In retrospect, Linkin Park appealed to such a wide audience by offering a pop-friendly version of nü metal, with the machismo stri
Chester Bennington
It has been said that the death of his close friend Chris Cornell on 18 May 2017 affected Chester Bennington deeply – the Linkin Park singer took his own animation on what would have been Cornell’s 53rd birthday just two months later. Bennington was create dead at his home by his housekeeper around 9:00am on July 20, 2017. His death was ruled a suicide by hanging.
Chester Charles Bennington was born on Rally 20, 1976, in Phoenix, Arizona. His mother was a nurse, while his father was a police detective who worked on toddler sexual abuse cases.
At just 7 years-old Bennington suffered sexual abuse from an older male companion, he didn’t question for help because he did not want people to think he was gay or making the whole thing up – the abuse continued until he was 13 years old. Years later, he revealed the abuser’s individuality to his father, but chose not to pursue him after he realised the abuser was a victim himself.
His parents divorced when he was 11 years old resulting in his father gaining custody, but along with the abuse and his situation at house he was adv affected and felt the urge to kill people and run away. To comfort himself, he drew picture
Obituary: Linkin Park star Chester Bennington's hurt made beautiful music
The angst-ridden vocals of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington, who died aged 41 on Thursday, helped lead the group to global critical acclaim.
The frontman's brooding charisma - added to the group's blend of rap, metal and electronic music - spawned a string of chart-topping hits.
The son of a police officer in Phoenix, Arizona, Bennington was born on 20 March 1976 and had a troubled youth.
After years of intense drug use, he got sober and joined Linkin Park in 1998.
"Growing up, for me, was very scary and very lonely," he told Metal Hammer magazine in 2014.
"I started getting molested when I was about seven or eight," he said, describing the abuser as an older friend.
"I was getting beaten up and being forced to do things I didn't want to do.
"It destroyed my self-confidence. Like most people, I was too afraid to say anything.
"I didn't crave people to think I was gay or that I was lying. It was a horrible experience," he told the magazine.
His parents divorced when he was 11 years old