Body positivity within the LGBTQ+ community can too often feel like an oxymoron, and that’s always infuriated me. Of all people, we should know what it’s like to be unfairly and unjustly ostracized or judged, yet we do that to ourselves on a daily basis, establishing socially-constructed hierarchies among ourselves as soon as we are given the chance. We would do better to celebrate each other and lift our fellow human beings up rather than comparing or judging. Remember, comparison is the thief of joy.
To that greater end, Chris Conde brings a welcome breath of confident and justified self-assurance to our world, boldly and bravely defying the boxes in which society would contain and limit us. Check out his glorious EP ‘Conde Digital’ available here and bombastic lead track ‘Year of the Queer’. We will not be kept silent, and when the music goes this hard, why would anyone want us to be? Conde rightfully earns this Dazzler of the Day for unapologetically being nothing but himself, and sometimes there’s nothing braver than that.
