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briancvdavis

FREAKS AND GEEKS

Jun 23, 2004 15:58

So this is the week of Pride ( Read more... )

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<clapping> <standing ovation> bramat78 June 23 2004, 22:40:25 UTC

1st prize for 'best thought out post of 04' goes to you.

i agree totally.

thanks for your perspective, im stealing it and will cite your work.

love b

Re: <clapping> <standing ovation> briancvdavis June 25 2004, 14:35:38 UTC

You're the best, Brandon!

I just feel we could use a new perspective on Pride. Without understanding what it means, it's too easy to sh*t all over it.

londonium June 23 2004, 23:19:53 UTC

Woah... this post couldn't be more relevant to my life right now:

Pride is on Sunday.

I just watched a downloaded episode of Freaks and Geeks

I'm reading "Margaret Mead Made Me Gay", the anthology of a anthropologist who studied drag queens and camp (particularly in her first publication, Mother Camp) during the early 70s and on. I just finished a chapter about how the pioneering feminine persona in the gay community had been replaced by "S&M". She made a huge point about how it's much harder to be a drag queen (to mock/embody conflicting gender roles) than it is to exaggerate the normative gender by putting on leather and growing a mustache.

Your post is insightful, as always. That being said, I miss you, Brian.

Wish I could be with y'all for Pride.

briancvdavis June 25 2004, 14:31:56 UTC

I miss you too, Matt.

Sounds like things are fantastic for you in NYC. I want to visit you in the worst way! And I NEED to see Avenue Q... alas, when? But for a trip to the big apple, there's no better tour guide than you.

instynct June 26 2004, 02:33:54 UTC

So many people get pissed that during pride that the nightly news channels inevitably only post film of flaming drag queens. The t-shirt and jeans guys tend to get annoyed by this. But what most don’t realize that if it was not for drag queens we wouldn't have any social acceptance or legal protections we enjoy today. Queens may be scary to many butch t-shirt and jeans gays but when it comes down to it they are the ones with the balls, even if they aren’t wearing the pants.

I may not be a boy in a dress, but I have no problems giving the drag queens credit for being gaykinds warriors.