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Five shot dead at a Queer club in Colorado Springs. Five dead and 18-22 wounded at ‘Club Q’. ...numbers of wounded still vary. Said President Biden:
“We know that the LGBTQ community has been subjected to horrific hate and violence in recent years, Gun violence continues to have a devastating and particular impact on LGBTQ communities across our nation and threats of violence are increasing.”
The president of the United States said this. The year I was born there would have been stone cold silence. Such places were routinely assaulted by mobs the police and hostile press. Progress. It may not seem so but if of an age you for sure see it. Regards the latest event. Officials are charging first degree murder which is far more serious than charging a Hate Crime. In the same way the murder of Black people are now taken as actual crimes so also for Queer folks. Slow progress. More varieties of citizens are now being seen as...human.
So here we are...again. Why does this happen what’s the history of it where does it go? Here’s some snarky notes on who we sort of are which might be a beginning. Once upon a time:
Beware inking down of your dreams. They'll either end up in some future scripture, and or as evidence at your trial. I'm an old school mid-20th century Queer. The whole point back then was to stop people from killing us. Marriage adopting the works. That was science fiction to us. I’m glad we’re moving along but at heart before the alphabet soup stuff we just wanted to be left alone and not shot.
Life in the future. I wonder what it’s like to be a Trans Gendered kid now. Like I wonder what a post Jim Crow youngster feels. These folks are different from me and my cohort. They have problems but not the ones we had. It’s still dangerous even deadly but we have moved along for both. Thing is we don’t have a clue about the human heart or the formula for the perfect doughnut.
100 years ago, they explained queers as the Third Sex and called it a day. 40 years after that we became Gay. Moved on to Lesbians and Gays then all those ever-changing letters now this. Gender-fluidity. It even sounds like it’s from the future. Wonder what ol’ George Jetson would make of this. You youngsters google him. 100 years from now if they ain’t wiped us out. They’ll see the Fluidities in the same way we view that Third Sex mayhem. We live we learn we change.
I knew a kid from Colorado Springs. This was a flagrantly queer kid who fled to San Francisco while very young. It was 40 years ago. I think his dad was in the Air Force. You can imagine how welcome an obviously gay kid would feel in a military family in the home of the Air Force back then.
ReplyDeleteThis was a very, very pretty boy; he could easily have been a fashion model. But he was on a path of self-destruction; I doubt he’s around any more. Another throwaway gay kid.
There is much, much more to this story, but I can’t really say much more. I think you get the picture.
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I more than get it.
ReplyDeletePerhaps in the future if any. There might be a memorial for our slaughtered innocents. The tortured maimed in body and soul and the outright murdered. It likely just in the history of this country by now number in the millions.
Yes. Not that I want to paint a picture of this kid as a complete innocent. He was a rather bad boy; not really evil, but very capable of exploiting a man who was in love with him, and I don't mean just me. On the other hand, one must consider his situation: no stable roof over his head, usually didn't know where his next meal was coming from. And the "respectable" gay community treated kids like him like trash, and still do. Fuck them.
ReplyDeleteBless the lost gay children.
Z
Bless them bless them all.
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