i still just can't get into it
it's been over a month since the election. we've had rallies and protests and speeches and editorials and keith olberman and all sorts of stuff about how prop 8 and the whole gay marriage thing is something whose time has come. we have president-elect obama nominating an out lesbian to be a top policy advisor on the environment and the obama transition team posting their glbti policy objectives online. we have people saying it's time to end "dont' ask, don't tell." we have the movie milk making lots of noise as regards oscar nominations.
i still just can't get into this obama thing. i was a proud supporter of him before the election. i voted for him.
i'm glad he's our next president, but i'm just so totally over the idea that he's the liberal messiah who is going to save us all from the perils of the bush administration and the radical right, who is going to fix the economy overnight and all. what's worse to me is this line of reasoning that seems to say with obama in office the prop 8, anti gay marriage thing, will just sort of naturally evaporate from the american consciousness.
it ain't a-gonna happen, missy.
what's worse to me is what i perceive as a bunch of really silly ideas in the gay rights movement front, such as the "day without a gay" thing this week that was a major flop. why is it we don't ever fight? why do we have to be nice about stuff? i am tired of nice. nice ain't gettin' us shit.
it's time for angry. real angry.
it's time for drag queens and leather dykes and gay suits and lipstick lesbians and flaming hairdressers and muscle boys and daddy bears and ALL of us to be seen as what we are: QUEER AS THE DAY IS LONG--AND A BEAUTIFUL, VALUED, NECESSARY PART OF THE WHOLE.
the only way that is going to happen is by actually telling our history, our culture, our values and our dreams to people. instead, we say things aren't equal. big fucking deal, life is unfair. people don't know us and they don't know why we should be here and they don't know our value to society. they also don't know we are strong. they believe we will lie down and take it, because we do.
that has to stop. and it has to stop now.
i still just can't get into this obama thing. i was a proud supporter of him before the election. i voted for him.
i'm glad he's our next president, but i'm just so totally over the idea that he's the liberal messiah who is going to save us all from the perils of the bush administration and the radical right, who is going to fix the economy overnight and all. what's worse to me is this line of reasoning that seems to say with obama in office the prop 8, anti gay marriage thing, will just sort of naturally evaporate from the american consciousness.
it ain't a-gonna happen, missy.
what's worse to me is what i perceive as a bunch of really silly ideas in the gay rights movement front, such as the "day without a gay" thing this week that was a major flop. why is it we don't ever fight? why do we have to be nice about stuff? i am tired of nice. nice ain't gettin' us shit.
it's time for angry. real angry.
it's time for drag queens and leather dykes and gay suits and lipstick lesbians and flaming hairdressers and muscle boys and daddy bears and ALL of us to be seen as what we are: QUEER AS THE DAY IS LONG--AND A BEAUTIFUL, VALUED, NECESSARY PART OF THE WHOLE.
the only way that is going to happen is by actually telling our history, our culture, our values and our dreams to people. instead, we say things aren't equal. big fucking deal, life is unfair. people don't know us and they don't know why we should be here and they don't know our value to society. they also don't know we are strong. they believe we will lie down and take it, because we do.
that has to stop. and it has to stop now.