Thursday, June 30, 2005

Something's Very Wrong In Gayville

Towleroad seems to have been infected with the LOGO-virus. God forbid we be sexual, flamboyant beings! No, we have to put on a drag of a different sort: a "normal," Middle American, white middle-class drag. Even as someone who is rather "normal," Middle American, white, and middle-class, that attitude makes me by turns sad and outraged.

What has happened to us homosexuals? How did we get infected with this notion that if we just act like we're still in the closet (a see-through model that allows just enough light in for others to see we like the same sex but not enough to show anything else), the homophobes will just instantly like us and give us equal rights? It ain't gonna happen, people!!! Haters will always hate. And I really don't think the "in-betweeners" are damaged by images of drag queens and leather daddies.

Maybe, though, the question is what
didn't happen to us homosexuals? It seems that, instead of trying to make the dream of an accepting and inclusive world a reality, we've allowed ourselves to devolve (or simply stay) nothing more than a collection of bitchy cliques united only by a love of dick (or pussy). Now, not only are we sexually, racially, geographically, generationally, and fetishistically divided, we're divided into the "normals" and the "freaks." Instead of a "rainbow" of harmony and community, we're a sad minority riven by petty differences. We're pathetic!

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