no, not THE gay agenda, just an agenda.
with gay themed items.
1) the turkish national sport
2) fun home, the musical
3) some guys i saw on church street.
1) the turkish national sport
turkey is one of the most homophobic nations on the planet, which is why their national sport makes me laugh.
let's step right over the concept that men should be able to touch each other and still be manly. i'm a supporter. the less time men spend worrying about what will make them look gay the better off we'll all be.
but seriously. turkish oil wrestling. it is a sport in which the preferred strategy is to get your whole arm down into your opponent's oil-soaked leather pants. any sport for which the official rules need to explicitly forbid squeezing your opponent's penis or inserting a finger into his rectum is a pretty gay sport to start off with.
even men's doubles ice dancing is not that gay.
2) fun home, the musical
in october i went to see the vermont stage production of fun home. it was beautiful and breathtaking and it played in a small house that holds maybe a hundred and twenty people, which made it an extremely intimate piece of theater.
live theater is kind of amazing anyway, not so much for what goes on on the stage, but for that thing that hangs between the performers and the audience. art reaches into that little place where people keep their hearts and gives it a little jiggle.
really and truly it's a show about relationships and family, but the central characters are gay, so while there are universal themes, there are things about it that cut weirdly close for everybody who came of age gay. it's also really stunning to see representations of gay characters who are not there for titillation or to be edgy or to signal liberal acceptance.
i looked around me in that audience and it was full of regular theater-going people who were there to see an awesome show. not because it was a gay show; because it's a good show. a thing like that would not have happened not so long ago.
the show is based on alison bechdel's graphic memoir fun home, and it's a fantastic bit of nonlinear storytelling.
3) some guys i saw on church street
later that night, i was wandering up church street playing ingress because it wasn't that late and i was parked up in the cherry street garage and i looked up from my phone to see that two men walking ahead of me were holding hands. two regular looking guys, large and square in that manly way, one black and one white and the only thing that tipped me off to their gayness was that they were holding hands, and at one point they kissed.
it really is a different world now.
i can remember a time not so long ago when such a thing would never have happened on church street. it would not even have happened that way outside of the old bar on pearl street. men may have kissed or held hands, but there would have been a hint of danger. it would have been a wary political act. a rebellion.
october, 2017: two men walk up church street holding hands. nobody seems to notice or care.
makes me smile.
2 comments:
Okay really? Id this made up? A person puts oil on their arm and well does what you said? How bizarre and how is that a sport? That just made me giggle.
When I first met my hubby and he re-arranged my flowers that I just threw into a vase that I picked up at the grocery store I had to laugh. He was far better than me at this. He told me he worked as a teenager in a floral shop owned by the only 2 gay men he had ever met in his life at that time. They were the talk of the town. But they were nice to him and he loved working for them and over time they taught him how to arrange flowers.
I now wish I could thank those 2 men because I can't do what he can with flowers!
He loves to cook. When he asked for pots and pans after he moved out his mother cried because she thought that made him gay. He told her to stop all the nonsense all it meant was that he was hungry. Isn't it funny what people assume when they just see a situation or person? I don't care what anyone does as long as they are good people. Trump is hetero but he is not a good man. That bothers me more than any sexual prefernce for heaven sake!!
peg, i gave you a link to a buzzfeed article on it. yes, it's a real thing. go ahead, google it.
also, if you like watching big oily men grappling on grass, i have found your new favorite spectator sport.
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