Michael Stipe.
From when I first got into R.E.M. in middle school, to the last note of the last R.E.M. album decades later, his work was a guiding light for me.
When I was transitioning, this song was an anthem to me.
youtu.be/aqRKqWCnCFI?...
She just wants to be somewhere
She just wants to be
Name a queer artist you love beyond measure.
I'm going with @ericlarocca.com this round because he writes viscerally beautiful prose about horrible things and his lived truths come through in every passage. He's horrifying and beautiful on the page, and I am so glad to know him.
