Random Commentary

Alright, this requires a touch of setup. As in, 'WTF are you talking about old?' Okay - the thing I watched that put this little thorn in my brain was on like months ago. It was some program that I watched in the wee hours because there wasn't anything on TV and I needed something to stare at. That's not all though, because the program in question was old news when it aired when I watched it. So really, I'm bitching about something so far past its relevance that it seems entirely pointless. Bear with me.

The program in question is this newsmagazine show that plays on Logo called In the Life. I have no idea where it came from, and I don't really care. It's homolicious, so somewhere in the contract I signed when I made my lifestyle choice there is fine print that I have to watch this sort of stuff. I'm lax on that too, but I get my fix in. Anyway - at one point they decided that they had to have the grande dame of queerdom make some sort of editorial piece at the end - Harvey Fierstein's gay babblings (I don't remember what the segment was called, and I doubt you care). This is the aforementioned thorn.

So what, pray tell, can her high holy homoness have said that has endured in the cartoon riddled cheese I call a brain? Harvey was going on about gay exposure in the media and somewhere in there he...

(I'm resisting the urge to go all flamey and constantly refer to him in the feminine. It's difficult sometimes - she just begs for it! Sorry about the excessive parentheticals.)

Anyway, somewhere in there he starts in on how many popular shows/movies/whathaveyou that end up with a gay theme (or are just plain gay to begin with) inevitably go for the gay bashing scene. He talks about how this is so sad and wrong, always going for that one particular theme instead of showing gay people in a loving environment, doing positive things, having wonderful lives. Because that, of course, would make rainbows pop out of fundie moron's asses and everyone would would just love their neighborhood faggot. The show he mentioned specificially was Queer as Folk, which did the big first season cliffhanger with Justin getting his head bashed in. (Sorry if I spoiled that for you.)

Now see, I happen to like Queer as Folk. It's totally a soap opera, gloriously melodramatic and cheesy and full of drama and angst and typical characters. I wallow in its soapiness. So having a gay bashing is pretty much necessary - I mean, it's a defining part of what it is to be gay, the fear that some asshole is going to try and kill you because his heart is a black hole of useless hate, and for no other reason that that. Anything else anyone has to say on the subject is a fucking lie.

Whoops, sorry. Got a little militant there. There is a point to this, let me get to it.

Here's what made Ms. Fierstein's rant spawn this rant. Have you seen Torch Song Trilogy? You know, the play made into a movie starring a certain Harvey Fierstein, wherein there is a part where his lovely young boyfriend is - get this - killed in a gay bashing! Gasp! Well missy, I guess you're the only bitch allowed to touch that subject then. Who the fuck do you think you are throwing that hissy fit around when you did the same damn thing? I'm not denouncing you or anything, cuz I really don't give a shit. I just want your little moment of bullshit OUT OF MY HEAD!

Thank you.