Lemonboy

Thank you SO much for this wonderful story spotlighting me and these phenomenal LGBTQIA+ artists performing as part of Intersections 2026 at the ! What a joy and an honor it is to be a part of this with them. 🍋❤️

One night only—Lemonboy in Concert is TONIGHT at 8:00pm! I can’t wait to see y’all there!!

AND, if you can’t make it out tonight, there are other opportunities to support q***r artists coming up so soon—including a cabaret of story and song with TOMORROW at 5:30pm, as well as performances by , , and next weekend! Be there or be ◼️!!!!

🎉🍋🎉🍋🎉🍋 NEW MERCH! 🍋🎉🍋🎉🍋🎉

Make your favorite track a statement piece with these tarot-inspired sweatshirts! Designed by co-producer Emily Zornado, each illustration is inspired by a track from the album, bringing the music to life in a unique, wearable way. Featured in the Spotify canvases, these designs will be instantly recognizable to frequent listeners!

Track & Color Pairings:
🎵 Ribbons – Maroon
🎵 My Mind Is Always Drifting Back to You – Stone Blue
🎵 Worse – Sand
🎵 Until Now – Mustard
🎵 Autopilot – Military Green
🎵 Everyone Has Those Nights – Cocoa
🎵 Catch Me If You Can – Purple
🎵 Morning View – Paragon
🎵 Bright – Navy
🎵 Lemonboy – Forest Green

Which one will YOU be wearing? Comment below!

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Tarot-Inspired Lemonboy Track Sweatshirts — LEMONBOY Make your favorite Lemonboy track a statement piece with these tarot-inspired sweatshirts! Designed by co-producer Emily Zornado, each illustration is inspired by a track from the album, bringing the music to life in a unique, wearable way. Featured in the Spotify canvases, these designs will be i

It's hard to believe that "Lemonboy" officially launched one month ago! Still haven't had the chance to listen? Check out some of the reviews below!

🍋 “A Moving Masterpiece of Self-Discovery and Resilience” - Will Lisil, QueerPeople.News

🍋 “Lemonboy is masterful exploration of vulnerability, community, and self-discovery.” - Olivia Wilson, The Little Garden

🍋 “With each new song, Lemonboy opens up more and more, showing his broad soul and unbridled heart.” - Indie Dock Music Blog

🍋 “Lemonboy mixes indie, folk, and pop styles, creating a sound that’s varied but still feels connected. […] You can hear hints of artists like Sara Bareilles and Boygenius, but Lemonboy’s style and way of telling stories make every song truly his.” - Music Earshot

🍋 “[A] folk-pop release that will have you reaching for the repeat button” - FVMusicBlog

🍋 “These days, it’s easy to fake sincerity, but this record reminds us of what real vulnerability sounds like.” - Martin Daisy, ViViPlay UK

Thank you all for the support throughout this journey! I can't say for certain what's next on this songwriting adventure, but I know I'm looking forward to sharing it with you.

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🎨 Track Illustrations by Emily Zornado

Since y'all already heard the rough mix, I figured it made sense to do this.

"Bright" is now available on Spotify and Apple Music! The rest of the album will be coming your way soon. Thank you SO much for all the love and and support - it is so meaningful!

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4FwACEYu2ZScGxYf4OzJ4w?si=z85K5YTkRwCP1obUKDzygA

Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/bright/1780751639?i=1780751640

LEMONBOY by Stream and Save LEMONBOY - Distributed by DistroKid

“Bright” was the song that started this project a year ago. I wrote it while reflecting on my experience growing up gay in Catholic school. The song is a gentle call to action; a rejection of judgment masked as holiness, and how rigid doctrines can alienate and wound people who are simply trying to get through the day. If I have one single core belief, it is distilled into this song: that the most concrete thing one can do to be a good person is to be kind.

Today, I find myself wondering if kindness is enough. For perhaps the first time in my life, I feel myself truly doubting the goodness of the world I live in. That doubt is chilling. The weight of it makes my skin crawl in a way that feels disarming and unfamiliar.

I find myself wondering, what does it mean to live openly, to love openly, if the people around me don’t see that as something worth protecting?

As a q***r person, the future feels bleak. I am filled with fear; fear that my community will be forced back into cold and colorless hiding places, just as we were getting used to the warmth of the sun on our skin. I fear that beloved trans and non-binary members of my chosen family will be even more afraid to live authentically, because some schoolyard bully who’s never met them doesn’t want to even try to understand a lived experience that's different from their own. I fear the ways in which others will work to silence the q***r joy I and so many others relish in expressing readily and proudly.

If you feel safe today, please try to understand how that is a privilege. Already, I see so many people hardening themselves to those who are grieving. Are we so hardened that we not only ignore but ridicule the pain of our neighbors?

We are all bound together in this world. It matters how we move through it. My identity is not something I will hide, nor is the joy and strength I find in my community. In 2019, DC had the highest LGBTQIA+ population in the US. Even still, living in DC, I have endured countless slurs and heckling for the way I dress, for the company I keep, and for the affection my friends and I show one another. Today, I fear the embers of anger that my joy will stir in those who wish to s***f it out. I fear the ways in which people who scorn me and others like me will feel emboldened to act. I fear the silence of those who may choose the comfort of privilege over the fight for justice.

Still, I cannot seem to turn it off. Intellectually, it feels so naïve, but everything I do is so deeply rooted in this conviction that kindness is the medicine.

So, if caring is a strength, send me to the front lines. I’ll keep carrying it forward, even as it feels like the world is beginning to burn at the edges. The world is not bright on its own. It’s as bright as we make it; it starts with us.

May we all do our part to make tomorrow brighter than today.

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BRIGHT

I don’t want to be a survivor.
I’m not proud of my resilience.
I think some people would be kinder
if they cared less for their own brilliance.

‘Cause there’s no reason to spend a life
hurting hopeful humans who don’t want holy advice.
It’s hard as it is just being alive.
So if there’s one thing I can make the world before I die,
darlin’, I hope I can make it bright.

So hung up on a hairpin,
the scribes and the hypocrites,
but if pride is such a deadly sin,
why are the greedy passing judgment?

It makes no sense to me to spend one’s life
making waking up feel hard for people aching to get by.
Perhaps it’s naïve, perhaps it’s contrived,
but if I ever get the money, I’ve already got the time
to make the world a little more bright.

I’ve never cured my solace
by cementing someone’s pain,
or quoting mistranslations
from the name they use in vain.

As a person, just a person, not a problem,
I’ve got love to give.
As a person, just a person, not a problem,
I just want to live.

And if there’s a world where loving people’s a crime,
that’s f*cked up and it feels like a fatal flaw in the design.
Tomorrow, I hope it’s in your heart to change your mind.
This road has bumps but to me it’s worth the drive,
‘cause if there’s one thing that I aim to make this world before I die,
darlin’, I hope that I make it bright.

I hope I make it bright.
Bright.

Bright - Demo LYRICS I don’t want to be a survivor. I’m not proud of my resilience. I think some people would be kinder if they cared less for their own brilliance. ‘Cause there’s no reason to spend a life hurt

“In Adam Greczkowski’s original song ‘Catch Me If You Can,’ he fluently expresses the journey of desire through place — and reveals how it may find you right back where you started.” - DC Theater Arts

I am SO grateful for the chance to be sharing this sneak peak of my upcoming album, LEMONBOY, through GMCW’s tour of POSTCARDS. It was on this tour a year ago that I found the confidence to pursue this project. It feels like such a magical way to celebrate this journey as I prepare for the project’s release.

Next stop…Luray, VA!

With thoroughly engaging ‘Postcards’, DC's Gay Men’s Chorus sends us The 18-solo cabaret transports its audiences to a rich spectrum of experience, tradition, and identity.

a lil’ lyric tease of what’s to come! any guesses what this song is about? 👀

About a year ago, my original song "Bright" was selected for showcase in the GMCW's annual soloist cabaret. When we took the show on tour, I was honored to add a second original piece, "Everyone Has Those Nights". It was the first time I shared my music in a formal performance setting in a decade - and I got to do so for audiences across DC, Virginia, and Delaware.

After our first performance, I was having a conversation with GMCW's Artistic Director, Dr. Thea Kano, and she asked me about my writing. I told her how I'd been writing music for as long as I could remember; how I had a spreadsheet of hundreds of songs and hooks and ideas; how, as a teenager, I often joked about wanting to record an album before I turned 30, and how special it was to see my music resonate with total strangers.

Thea smiled at me and asked, "Are you 30 yet?"

I was a couple weeks shy of 29. "So," she said, "we've got a year to make this happen.

And so the journey began. Surrounded by a community of some of the most talented musicians I’ve ever met, I found the push I needed to chase a lifelong dream I had thought it more sensible to abandon. It has brought me so much joy not only to create music, but to weave the voices and talents of my chosen family into these songs.

LEMONBOY is an album of music that I wrote to give shape to my biggest feelings. Some of the music is older, most of it is new, and all of it was written because I needed to write it: because it mattered to me; because it felt good; because this is the part of myself I feel I understand the most. But, without the support of my loved ones, I know this dream would have continued collecting dust somewhere, an impossible wish.

How lucky am I to have a community that makes literal dreams come true? 🍋

LEMONBOY, recorded with GRAMMY-winner Charlie Pilzer, will be squeezing onto streaming platforms THIS FALL. 💦 Pre-save link will be available in the coming weeks, so stayed tuned! This has been the honor of a lifetime and I can't wait to share this with you all. 💛

📸 Photography by Matty Hoffman Photo
🖼️ Album Art by Laura Walsh (LJW Graphic Design, LJW BG Paint & Illustration) | http://www.laurajeanwalsh.com