“This year we all had the opportunity to give up or move forward, and most of us probably did at least a little of both. I have been surviving the pandemic through music, fashion, art, rescue doggos, and just showing up for the communities I care about and belong to. I’m grateful to still be here and feel very clear about who and how I am trying to be in this new world. My reaction to the endless suffering happening around me and across the globe this past year was to lean all the way into gay joy, any way I could. Everything I create now is rooted in this unwavering belief that we will all come back together someday, to dance and hug and kiss and fuck and eat at restaurants and go to shows and see our families and shop in stores and travel and get the mail without worrying about dying and just have fun, like we used to. I spent so many years — decades, actually — unhappy in my own life. I just absolutely refuse the darkness now.” – Logan Lynn
(Full quote for Out Magazine, November 2021 issue)
This Christmas song of mine that Kill Rock Stars just put out was written about how our government and lots of our friends and neighbors failed us all over the last couple of years. We recorded it in the midst of the first wave of the pandemic where it really seemed like absolutely everyone I know and love was going to die.
Many did.
I think the holidays are traumatizing for a lot of people, especially now, given the scale of the loss and grief of this time we are living through. There are a bunch of queer and trans people who have already lived through a pandemic that brought suffering into our lives and wiped out entire generations of our LGBTQ+ elders — so I figured there should be a Christmas anthem for us, too. Fuck Christmas, ya know? Especially now.
I channeled all of my exhausted, queer rage into this beast in the studio and I know it was really cathartic for my whole team as we were in there making it. There has been so much to scream about, and not enough people screaming. It felt good to let some out, and to have a place to put it all.
For the video we brought together imagery that evokes these feelings I’ve been having around all of the loss, violence, misinformation and trolling so many of us have been experiencing, then we juxtaposed that with imagery of gay joy and sex and wildness from the before times.
Thank you to Out Magazine for the great night and for the #Out100 honor.
Thanks also to Portugal. The Man for making a gay feel special.
You can watch the replay of the show now at www.Out.com/Out100Live — it’s cute! (The #Out100Live program kicks off 19 minutes into the video cuz livestream.)
Super excited to be part of this year’s #OUT100 Livestream event, happening next Thursday (11/18) at 8pm ET on Out.com/Out100Live and Out Magazine’s Facebook and Twitter accounts!
It’s such an honor to be recognized as one of this year’s #Out100 alongside Billy Eichner, Justin Tranter, Demi Lovato, Orville Peck, Elliot Page, Aubrey Plaza, Niecy Nash-Tucker, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, and so many of my faves!
Thank you to Alessandro Michele and the team at Gucci for dressing me again for this shoot. 💚❤️
