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David

I'm gonna be unpopular for pointing it out, but there >was< a strong element of white, ivy-league educated gay male voices who led the AIDS movement in the 1980s. Many were also Jewish. Larry Kramer (Yale), Paul Monette (Exeter & Yale), David Feinberg (MIT), Eric Rofes (Harvard), Stephen Gendin (Brown). As a white person, I was definitely cognizant of the racial privilege and class undercurrents of Mothers and Sons, just as I notice the GMHC contingent in the NYC Pride March is mostly Black and Latino. I make a conscious effort to read minority authors such as Samuel Delany to hear voices that speak from different experiences. If you don't feel your story is being told, then you need to tell it, but playing the "my group's suffering is invisible in your story card" ignores history even if it is in retrospect, full of warts.

June 4, 2014