Is griz gay

To the rest of the world, his name is GRiZ, the Denver-based multifaceted artist who’s funkin’ up dance floors worldwide with his self-described “future funk” sound, which mixes electronic music with his fiery live saxophone, energetic funk, and sweeping electro-soul.

In April, GRiZ released his celebrated sixth studio album,Ride Waves, receiving praise from the likes of Billboard, i-D, Office Mag, among others.

All the swells, all the tides—they come and go.”

Since the album’s release,GRiZ has released a series of EPs that stay true to his bass-heavy, dubstep-fueled roots, aptly titledBangers.Zip.The EPs are a call-back to his early musical stylings,one of which feature the massive hit “Griztronics”–an epic collab with riddim producer Subtronics that has reached nearly 1 billion streams via Tik Tok, #9 on the BillboardDance/Electronic Songs chart and a total of 7.5million streams across major DSPs plus 14million across YouTube in the US alone.

Sharing his sonic journey with fans around the world, GRiZ set out on Seasons One of hi Ride Waves tour this past summer, selling out venues like King’s Theatre in Brooklyn, The Met inPhilly, and two nights at Greenfield Lake Amphitheater in Wilmington for the second year of his personal-favorite GRiZMAS In July events.Season Two saw him return to the iconic RedRocks Amphitheatre for his fifth-year of double sold-out shows before heading out on an 18-city trek across North America with stops at Berkeley’s Greek Theatre, LA’s Palladium and Chicago’s Navy Pier.

GRiZ has remained one of the leading independent artists in electronic music throughout the years, from his 2011 debut album to his breakout album Good Will Prevail(September 2016) which debuted at #1 on the iTunes Electronic chart and charted on the Billboard200 chart—an impressive feat for a free release.A champion of the live electronic landscape, GRiZ’s live show is a spectacle unto itself.

Shine so brightly that it inspires your community to do the same. Never ever give up on yourself. Keep on doing you, GRiZ! So I waited. It gets better,” co-opting the namesake catch phrase from the It Gets Better Foundation, which serves to empower and give hope to LGBT youths. “But for me, I just wasn’t interested.

Instead of giving into that fear and sadness, we need to shine.

Since openly coming out as gay via a personal blog post on Huffington Post in 2017, GRiZ has remained a vocal supporter and active member of the LGBTQ community. Everything seemed to balance except for one big thing. He also describes how he suffered from anxiety and depression because of the stress of keeping the act up.

It wasn’t until college that Kwiecinski felt that he could come out in his own skin and live openly gay.

He also debuted the 15-piece GRiZ Live Bandat the beloved venue in 2017.

A shining force of positivity, GRiZ has preached his lifelong ‘Show Love, Spread Love’ mantra via his ongoing charity work and community activism. In his statement, the DJ talks about the lack of role models when he was growing up and how that played into him hiding his sexual orientation during his adolescent, noting, “There was so much pressure to fit in, I tried to force myself to be like everyone else.

It won’t always be easy, but the battle is worth it. . It might not be cool to love Britney Spears, study AP physics or play saxophone but, it’s totally cool to be gay.”

Kwiecinski’s statement comes at the start of LGBT Pride Month, which is celebrated every June with numerous events worldwide that attract millions of LGBTQIA+ participants and their allies.

Via his annual run of GRiZMAS holiday shows at Detroit Masonic Temple, which has sold out every year since launching in 2014, and the coinciding 12 Days of GRiZMAS series, he has raised funds for music education programs within public schools across the greater Detroit area. While increasingly, American society becomes more open to LGBTQIA+ individuals, Pride Month falls in June in honor of the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous and violent demonstrations in 1969 by members of the LGBT community that are widely considered one of the largest pivotal moments in gay liberation, which paved the way for the modern LGBT rights movement of today.

Since then, we’ve come a long way, with 2015’s landmark 5-4 Supreme Court Obergefell v.