Hippo Campus’ Jake Luppen Talks Embracing His Queerness and #FreeBritney

Jake Luppen found out his dog was being put down on Valentine’s Day. The pup was a 13-year-old Havanese named Cookie. She’d been a gift to the Hippo Campus frontman from his parents in the midst of a contentious, drawn-out divorce that took up the bulk of his teenage years. He was allergic to her.
“She was one of the few things that got me through that time. And I haven’t really gone to therapy or anything, or, like, confronted a lot of the trauma I went through,” L