Putting the "Gay" back in Homosexuality

On a recent Public Television broadcast of the show Nature, two young men (who appeared to be partners in that they expressed an intimacy in their physical and verbal interactions)  were deemed to be be too nelly and bitchy and thus reinforcing of negative homosexual stereotypes by a  blogger over a the Bilerico Project, a collective GLBT blog.  This blogger was offended by this segment from the Nature show about the relationship between pets and their owners.

Said blogger saw none of the warmth, the humor, or humanity of this exchange.  Instead, this is how he expressed his feelings:

"Great. Another stereotypically gay bitchy HIV+ queen stroking her feline and being, well, catty to her friend, "You don't have any trouble... especially in that shirt." When will FOX see these stereotypes for what they... Uh. What? PBS?! Goddamn it."

Isn't that cute how he made a slur using HIV+ at the same time?  This blogger is not just any ol' Gay blogger, but is Bil Browning, co-founder of the Bilerico Project.  I link to them, but they do not link to me.  I'm about to change that.  I have no interest in associating with uptight, middle class queens with no sense of humor and an over inflated sense of their own self-importance.  I hope his dick is bigger than his heart and sense of humor.

Buh buh bye bye Bilerico.   Visualize this:

I'm sure Browning is a nice enough guy.  According to his bio, he lives in Indianapolis, Indiana where it is assumed that all Gays are nelly and all Lesbians are diesel dykes.   We nelly Gays apparently embarrass him.  He's probably equally embarrassed by the idea of transsexuals.  Listen, I know how tough it is.  This nelly drag queen was in the U.S. Army, for chrissake.

But, Bil (one "L," his spelling, not mine -- talk about Gay!) I learned a long time ago, and if you are blessed enough to live a long life (me? I've had HIV since 1985 -- that's a long life, sugah), none of us are free until we are all free. Until drag queens are free, none of us are.  You only think you're butch enough to escape homophobia.  You seriously need to get over yourself.

Here's my cheer:  I'm here, I'm queer, and I'm a bitchy, sarcastic, nelly semi-drag queen, and I don't need permission from uptight assholes who live in the middle of nowhere for me to be me.  I don't think I know how to be anyone else.

Cheers, y'all.

Comments

[Brenda]

Love that visualization. I use that wave myself every so often. :-)