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My unexpected Pride icon: they were not cool, but bands like Mumford & Sons eased the turmoil of coming out
As a queer, black woman raised on jazz and soul, discovering the genre of indie folk felt like an antidote to the guilt and self-loathing I was battling through
It was largely associated with hipsters – the twirly moustached, braces and Henley-shirt-wearing kind – and with band members who all look like Sunday school preachers and youth pastors. It’s an obsession that led me to Tumblr, where there were tonnes of fan edits (short video tributes to the show’s couples and characters), all set to an endless stream of stomp and clap such as the Lumineers’ Ophelia or King and Lionheart by Of Monsters And Men. But indie folk was all mine, music discovered in an online community almost as an antidote to the catholic guilt and self-loathing I was battling through.
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