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Posted by Pharmakon on 2024-August-26 01:45:52, Monday

I was surprised not to find that slogan available on a t-shirt. But today's rainbow is conflicted about "faggot," remembering having claimed it in its radical youth but now more worried about reducing it to the status of "nigger" as prohibited speech.

However, my inquiry serendipitously turned up a couple of interesting names, both connected with the 1977 manifesto/fable The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions. One is the author of that work, gay communard Larry Mitchell. The other is Ted Huffman.

Let's start with Ted, since he is the "boy" I am relying on for main board relevance. He's now grown, but in 1990 he was a boy soprano. In the clip linked below, you can find him at 16:35.

More recently, Huffman directed a staging of the Mitchell book.

I haven't read the manifesto. Some may question its relevance to our movement today, but remember in 1977 we were still part of the gay movement. In an interview, Mitchell once said about his activism in those days:

I was thrilled to be gay because there were two things I didn’t have to do now—go into the army or get married. And of course over the years the two things that the gay movement fought for was to be able to go into the army and get married. But we were thrilled that we didn’t have to do that. We thought it was fantastic! The gay movement did not follow us there. It went towards acceptance, and we were not about acceptance. We were about changing the rules. We were about opposition.


Does that suggest sympathy for boylovers? I think it suggests, at least, a lack of sympathy for the rainbow assimilationists who threw us out of the movement.

hugzu ;-p


Pharmakon
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