Courtney Isn't Loved by Straight Guys

By Michael Musto Wed., Mar. 30 2011 at 9:30 AM

Hit So Hard: The Life & Near-Death Story of Patty Schemel is a hard-hitting documentary about the lesbian ex-addict Hole drummer (second from right), which is playing the New Directors/New Films festival tonight at MoMA.

In it, Courtney Love's first quote is, "I was completely high on drugs. I can't remember much."

Honest, at least. But the Hole singer prods herself and manages to come up with some interesting stuff.

Like how when you're a woman in rock, you have no rivals.

"Madonna wakes up every day and somebody wants to be her," says Courtney. "Nobody wants to be me -- which is so awesome!"

Also, how it's been said that Nirvana's fan base was people who grew up in broken homes, and that's true, but Courtney has found that her own niche is as follows:

"A lot of females and a lot of gay guys and a few advanced and evolved heterosexual men. Not many!"

More poignantly, she also talks about how Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff O.D.'d just a couple of months after Kurt Cobain suicide.

"Horrific! And it got overshadowed by Kurt's completely," says Courtney, eating. "It's just not fair!"

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Monica456

Most about relations between Courtney and Cobain I got to know from movie «Kurt & Courtney». On http://www.torrentoff.com it is available. It shows investigating the circumstances surrounding Kurt Cobain's death and gives lots of intresting facts from his life with Courtney.

Movielover

Straight guys are not wild about chix who don't appeal to them in a physical way. "They" don't like Sarah Jessica Parker or Rene Zellwegger either. Those two have gay appeal, but are not what you'd call conventionally pretty. Butch women have great appeal to straight men if they have beauty. I guess plenty of gays are interested in hard core rock, lawdy knows, we are the world. We are everywhere. In fact, we're your mom & dad!

Jonster

I didn't know Love had a gay following. I know her ex had a gay following. Everyone on the strip back then knew about Kurt and Marty. I always thought she was just the beard.