Editing Michelle Shocked (section)

==Personal life==
Shocked's younger brother is the musician and multi-instrumentalist [[Max Johnston (musician)|Max Johnston]], of [[Uncle Tupelo]], [[Wilco]] and [[the Gourds]].

In 1992, Shocked married journalist [[Bart Bull]]. They divorced in 2004.<ref name="bulldiv">{{Cite news |title=Keep the campfire burning, Michelle |first=Jude |last=Rogers |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/jul/31/1 |date=July 31, 2005 |periodical=[[The Observer]] |access-date=October 19, 2011 |location=London}}</ref> She reported in 2007 that she was in a relationship with [[Disney]] artist [[David Willardson]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/shocked-tactics-1.835624 |title=Shocked Tactics |date=December 15, 2007 |last=Purcell |first=Andrew |work=Scotland Herald }}</ref> with whom she had first worked in 2001 when he designed the branding for her record label Mighty Sound. Willardson has since designed album covers for ''Deep Natural'' and for Shocked's album reissues.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.michelleshocked.com/willywear/about_willywear.htm |title=About Willywear |year=2010 |last1=Shocked |first1=Michelle |last2=Willardson |first2=David |publisher=Michelle Shocked |access-date=March 29, 2014}}</ref> Willardson and Shocked share an artist's studio in the [[Biscuit Company Lofts]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ladowntownnews.com/entertainment/what-s-in-my-loft-michelle-shocked-biscuit-company-lofts/article_f11ce5c9-8172-52f1-90dc-8cc0e7ac0151.html |title=What's in My Loft?: Michelle Shocked, Biscuit Company Lofts – An Urban Temple in the Arts District |date=October 15, 2010 |last=Leonard |first=Gary |work=Los Angeles Downtown News |publisher=Civic Center News}}</ref>

===Sexuality===
[[File:MichelleShocked BellyUp 2010.jpg|thumb|right|Shocked performing in 2010]]

According to ''Gay 100'' author [[Paul Russell (novelist)|Paul Russell]], in 1989 she joked to a US broadcast television audience that the Grammy award for Best Contemporary Folk Recording, whose nominees included herself, eventual winner [[Tracy Chapman]], [[Phranc]], and [[Indigo Girls]], should have been called "Best Lesbian Vocalist".<ref name=Gay100>{{cite book |title=The Gay 100 |last=Russell |first=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jACXalmJ3nEC&pg=PA331 |page=331 |publisher=Kensington |year=2002 |isbn=0758201001}}</ref> Shocked herself remembers that she joked the award "could have been called 'They Might Be Lesbians'".<ref name="dv kushner"/>

After an Earth Day performance in Chicago in April 1990, she gave an interview to Christie L. Nordhielm of ''[[Windy City Times|Outlines]]'', a Chicago newspaper for the gay community. Accompanied by future husband, journalist [[Bart Bull]], she told Nordhielm she felt boxed in by listener expectations that she was either straight or gay; she said "I would like a much broader definition for myself."<ref name="Outlines 1990 take2">{{cite news |newspaper=OutLines |date=May 1990 |title='Shocking' Revelations from Michelle Shocked |page=25|url=https://windycitytimes.com/m/APPredirect.php?AID=18269|access-date=14 March 2022 |first=Christie |last=Nordhielm|archive-date=14 March 2022 |id=Republished May 7, 2008 as: "Shocked's change; Carly widens her net" |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314112233/https://windycitytimes.com/m/APPredirect.php?AID=18269}}</ref><ref name="dallas voice 2008">{{cite news |last1=Kusner |first1=Daniel |title=Michelle Shocked: Dallas Voice's controversial interview from 2008 - Michelle Shocked Believes Being Gay is a Sin |url=https://dallasvoice.com/michelle-shocked-controversial-interview/ |access-date=14 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314112007/https://dallasvoice.com/michelle-shocked-controversial-interview/ |archive-date=14 March 2022 |work=Dallas Voice |orig-date=Originally published April 2008 |date=20 March 2013}} {{plainlist|Following this 2008 interview, the ''Dallas Voice'' responded to Shocked's request for specifics from the 1990 ''Outlines'' interview with:
* [http://www.dallasvoice.com/michelle-shocked-said-what-1990-outlines-interview-surfaces-10434.html "Michelle Shocked said what? 1990 ''Outlines'' interview surfaces"] ''Dallas Voice'' April 25, 2008:
* "''Dallas Voice'' contributor Rex Wockner battled ...to dig out his May 1990 issue of ''OutLines'', the Chicago paper that contained Michelle Shocked's "coming out" interview... By the way, ''OutLines'' merged into ''Windy City Times'' in 2000. In last week’s edition of ''Dallas Voice'', Shocked demanded that I quote her what the article said. Well, here’s just one tidbit that might have made people think she came out as a lesbian:
* 'I was with my first woman lover about a year and a half ago. To be honest, the real fear of coming out of the closet, not fear, but the real pressures of coming out of the closet had been if you had certain problems identifying yourself one way or the other.' "}}</ref> She explained her wish to be politically and sexually subversive by saying, "I resent like hell that I was maybe 18 years old before I even heard the 'L' word. I mean, that's understood, growing up sheltered in a Mormon environment. But it would have made all the difference for me had I grown up knowing that the reason I didn't fit in, was because they hadn't told me there were more categories to fit into."<ref name="Outlines 1990 take2"/> She said she did not condone the [[outing]] activities engaged in by members of [[ACT UP]].<ref name="Outlines 1990 take2"/>

Since then, Shocked has been listed as bisexual in reference books,<ref>{{cite book |title=Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America |last=Gross |first=Larry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aF3x8sUB1bEC&pg=PT157 |page=157 |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-0231529327}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0EUoCrFolGcC&pg=PA523|page=523 [https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofle00bzim/page/523 523] |title=Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia |volume=1 |editor=Bonnie Zimmerman |chapter=Music, Women's |last=Mockus |first=Martha |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2000 |isbn=0815319207 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofle00bzim/page/523 }}</ref> and does not self-identify as a lesbian. In a 2013 interview with CNN, Shocked stated "I am, for the last 10 years, so deeply in love with a man that the idea of living my life without him is impossible. I know how much I love him, and knowing that passion that I have for him, would I ever want to deny that to anyone else? Absolutely not."<ref name="willman hr 2013">{{cite news |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/earshot/michelle-shocked-piers-morgan-im-not-homophobic-432258 |date=April 2, 2013 |last=Willman |first=Chris |title=Michelle Shocked on 'Piers Morgan': Evasive, Incoherent, Says 'I'm Not Homophobic' |newspaper=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]| access-date=January 1, 2016}}</ref>

===Religion and views on homosexuality===
While performing at the [[Wild Goose Festival]] in June 2011, a Christian event at which the [[LGBT-affirming religious groups|inclusion of gay Christians]] was debated, Shocked responded to an audience member's question about homosexuality by saying "Who drafted me as a gay icon? You are looking at the world's greatest homophobe. Ask God what He thinks."<ref name="Wild Goose Festival">{{cite web| title = Wild Goose Festival's (Mostly) Welcoming Spirit for LGBT Christians | url=http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/sexandgender/4888/wild_goose_festival%E2%80%99s_(mostly)_welcoming_spirit_for_lgbt_christians_/ | publisher = Religion Dispatches | date = August 1, 2011 |access-date = March 18, 2013}}</ref>

On March 17, 2013, Shocked made an impromptu speech against [[same-sex marriage]] during a concert at [[Yoshi's (jazz club)|Yoshi's]] nightclub in San Francisco, which led some audience members to leave in protest and the club's management to end the show.<ref name="homophobic rant">{{cite web|last1=Avery|first1=Dan|title=Alt-Folk Singer Michelle Shocked Goes on Homophobic Rant, Tells Audience 'God Hates Fags' | url=http://www.queerty.com/alt-folk-singer-michelle-shocked-goes-on-homophobic-rant-tells-audience-god-hates-fags-20130318/|publisher = Queerty.com | date = March 18, 2013 | access-date = January 1, 2016}}</ref><ref name="homophobic rant staff shutdown">{{cite news| title = Shocked show shut down over gay slur | url= http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Shocked-show-shut-down-over-gay-slur-4363898.php|publisher = SFGate.com | date = March 18, 2013 | access-date = January 1, 2016 | first=Leah | last=Garchik}}</ref> All venues eventually cancelled scheduled performances of her "Roadworks Tour" in response to reports of Shocked's remarks.<ref name="Evanston cancellation">{{cite news| title = Michelle Shocked: anti-gay rant triggers Evanston cancellation | url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-michelle-shocked-evanston-20130318,0,7598900.story|publisher = Chicago Tribune | date = March 18, 2013 | access-date = March 18, 2013 | first=Mark | last=Caro}}</ref> In a March 20, 2013, email to the news media, Shocked apologized, saying that her comments had been misinterpreted, and that she was not describing her own opinions about homosexuality, but rather those of some Christians.<ref>{{cite news| title=Michelle Shocked: 'I'm damn sorry'| first=Leah| last=Garchik| work=San Francisco Chronicle| date=March 20, 2013| access-date=January 1, 2016| url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/garchik/article/Michelle-Shocked-I-m-damn-sorry-4370886.php}}</ref> An audio recording of the performance was reported as contradicting Shocked's post-performance explanation.<ref>{{cite news| last=White| first=Ryan| title=Michelle Shocked issues two statements, and audio of her Yoshi's show emerges |work=The Oregonian| url=http://www.oregonlive.com/music/index.ssf/2013/03/post_25.html| access-date=January 1, 2016| date=March 20, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1553842/michelle-shocked-speaks-out-as-full-audio-of-meltdown-emerges |magazine=Billboard |date=March 20, 2013 |last=Schneider |first=Mark |title=Michelle Shocked Speaks Out as Full Audio of Meltdown Emerges |access-date=January 1, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.spin.com/2013/03/audio-of-michelle-shocked-anti-gay-rant-listen-stream/ |title=Audio of Michelle Shocked's 'Anti-Gay' Rant Reveals Only Confusion&nbsp;– She contradicts her apology, but also appears addled |last=Kreps |first=Daniel |date=March 20, 2013 |journal=Spin |access-date=January 1, 2016}}</ref>

On April 1, 2013, Shocked appeared on CNN's ''[[Piers Morgan Live]]'' to clarify her remarks. Morgan asked Shocked three times whether she was "homophobic". Eventually, Shocked stated "If you want to keep this simple for the audience, let me just give you a straight no, I'm not homophobic. But the truth, I don't think, lies in the simplicity. It's in the nuance, and that's been completely lost in this." She said that the meaning behind her prior comments was misinterpreted.<ref name="willman hr 2013"/>

===Political activity===

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A photograph of Shocked being detained during a protest that appears on the cover of her 1988 album ''Short Sharp Shocked'' was taken by Chris Hardy of the ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]'' at a protest in [[San Francisco]] during the [[1984 Democratic National Convention]]. Years later, Shocked was arrested during the November 29, 2011, eviction of the [[Occupy Los Angeles]] movement.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://laist.com/2011/12/02/la_times_posts_list_of_those_arrest.php| title=LA Times Posts Names of Those Arrested at Occupy LA, Stories Begin to Unfold About What Happened During the Raid: LAist| work=[[Gothamist]]| access-date=December 2, 2011| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529090945/http://laist.com/2011/12/02/la_times_posts_list_of_those_arrest.php| archive-date=May 29, 2012| df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://spreadsheets.latimes.com/protestors-arrested-occupy-la/| title=Protesters arrested at Occupy L.A.&nbsp;– Spreadsheets – Los Angeles Times| work=[[Los Angeles Times]]| access-date=December 2, 2011| date=December 1, 2011}}</ref>