![]() Gay men are defined by who we love-and who we want to hook up with-and expressing that is a subtle but necessary resistance to the insidious pressure to only show half of our full selves. On occasion, he delivers on the arresting artwork’s promise. The cover image of ARIZONA BABY suggests an artist newly unmasked: Abstract is shirtless, baring rows of crowded teeth, his skin lacquered as if coated with sweat, amniotic gloop, or some other bodily fluid. Abstract ran away from home as a teen, and his Mormon family only found out that he is gay from his 2016 “Empty” video, in which he gets a blowjob from a jock. ARIZONA BABY, which he has said he made “out of survival,” is a loose document of an artist who has weathered life’s bruises and is ready to reckon with his religious past. Abstract’s sincere intentions are more effectively translated within his music.
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