tongues untied and faggot snappin

i found this video in a post on the boulevardier. anarchism, queerness, and fashion? it is interesting. the combination of topics keeps me coming back to the blog for more. the post is about hooliganism and anarchism and tactics for resistance and survival. pretty interesting. i’ve had many a similar conversation and i like where the writer takes it. but this morning i found the embedded video, faggot snap, and didn’t really want to go much further than that.

this video faggot snap makes me pretty happy. i think i do have a love for homo ‘pop culture’ or homo takes on pop culture. i stay out of a lot of the mainstream of pop culture… as much as i can… (my aunt/uncle who normally reside farther outside of pop culture were getting on me because i didn’t know the name of that adam guy who lost american idol at some point?) anyways, when it has queer under or overtones and/or is from queer culture… i listen.

this video makes me think about marlon riggs’ 1989 film tongues untied depicting experiences of black men loving black men. 1989 — imagine being a black gay man at this time given the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. while this youtube video is pretty lighthearted, it owes a lot to these earlier films, including looking for langston. the space carved out by these films should not be underestimated. the presentation of other lives in the face of homophobia and racism while at the same time being a queer cultural production.

and tongues untied is so 1989. clothes. hair. music. amazing.

or another great (though censored!) piece of the film is located here. (i couldn’t get it to embed for some reason…)

this is also what makes me so much more interested when the pop culture presented is decidedly queer. it takes a lot to put yourself out there like that. to not hide what has been for so long hidden. and in the face of a pop culture that often doesn’t acknowledge its queerness. so while all this shit goes on against queer and genderqueer people… there’s so much desire for the wall that divides hets (heterosexuality) from homos (queerness) (and here i refer to that erected by those who want to protect a pure heterosexuality. it goes the other way too) that it is denied time and time again how very homo so much about human relations is!

oh man. i think this means it is time to write about collier schorr! who i love!

ok. almost to work.

~ by wehavetobehavetobeerrant on November 11, 2009.