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Joel

Many more important people than I have opinions about this "assimiliation" of gay culture into the "mainstream" of American culture. It seems inevitable, yet when examined....there is a tendancy to intolerance even among gays and lesbians of "radical" or "extreem" people, opinions and behavior. I have enciountered this here in my city when we hung a "LGBT" artists' work in the lobby of the community center. This particular artist had rendered in great detail the erect penis of a male. The mainstream gays and lesbians who use the center for community activities THAT INVOLVE CHILDREN, demanded we remove or COVER UP the offending part. I was just aghast. The purpose of the art exhibit was to show gay and lesbian work.....and thats what we did. Is this what we are coming to? A gay world that looks just like the straight world....complete intolerance of drag queens and "Leather" clubs? If you remember at the last march on Washington the organizers did not want drag queens or Leather guys in the parade.....because they were too "controversial" and lent a poor image to the middle class status mainstream LGBT leaders wanted to project. We all know that drag queens STARTED the Stonewall riots that set off the Gay Liberation in 1969. But in 2009 drag queens are unacceptable to LGBT political contenders who have to distance themselves from that sort of people in order to appeal to a wider segment of the population. I miss the old days. When gay bars and leather clubs florished. When gay pride parades meant more than just showing the straight population how middle class we are with babies in strollers. I prefer the DYKES ON BIKES to the strollers. That old "in your face", "we're queer we're here, get used to it", has been taken over by strollers. Its difficult being and OLD queen.

April 21, 2009