The R&B singer-songwriter discusses the power of submission and not understanding the fans who still think he’s straight.
WORDS MIKELLE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY RYDER Earlier this year, Destin Conrad was in an Uber riding through New York City.
He was lost in his own world, in his own problems, staring out the window. And then he saw her: a girl standing at the bus stop with the word “Submissive” stamped across the front of her hoodie in big bold letters. “It brought me so much joy,” Conrad tells GAY TIMES.
The hoodie was merch from his two-part Submissive project and accompanying from earlier this year. Though the driver was going too fast for him to roll down the window and call out to her, the experience stuck with Conrad. “I almost started crying in the Uber. [That hoodie] is something so loud.