Bloom

Gone is the melancholic, oneiric Blue Neighborhood that defined Sivan’s past — in his relocation to a new landscape of unabashed revelry and excess, the artist has packed up his electro-pop sensibilities and packed away his poignance.

“Bloom” is a multimedia exploration of movement, abstractifying audiences’ understandings of motion with an expert eye for shadow, texture and negative space.

“The things that we want to do, we feel like we can just actually do now, as before it was this giant mountain we had to climb,” Kearsley said in an interview with The Daily Californian.

Lush, warm and soulful (like that same good old bowl of mac and cheese), the Paper Kites’ stop at The Fillmore was a gentle reminder to take a breath.

With Thanksgiving break upon us, we’re all looking forward to our little moments of escape. While most of us don’t have a woodland paradise to retreat to, this playlist of gentle acoustics and pleasant melodies can help you pretend like you do.

Last Thursday, on the stage of The Masonic, Sivan seemed at home in the rainbow limelight. Running a hand through his shock of pale hair and shrugging off a loose, gray suit jacket to reveal skintight fitness wear, Sivan paused his set to say, “This is the gay one,” before performing “HEAVEN.”

Monday shows some promising picnic weather in the afternoon — get out into nature, and forget about the stresses of school for an hour.

While I have lived among the most privileged generation of queer people in history, a certain outlook on life was fostered by a constant fear of reveal and rejection, the feeling of being a sexual deviant

Whether this is your first Pride Month or you've been celebrating since your infancy, June is a great time to promote and consume queer content.