tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780795730939193102.post5654916232701411726..comments2023-10-15T04:19:39.781-05:00Comments on Austin Eavesdropper: It's Ok To Be Me (Even if I'm a Drag Queen)! - QueerBomb.Austin Eavesdropperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09089689495366272459noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780795730939193102.post-43699102809742507002010-06-04T23:57:33.899-05:002010-06-04T23:57:33.899-05:00Can I just say that I love that Austin has a count...Can I just say that I love that Austin has a counter-Pride party to complement a Pride parade! I would dance with Jon at BOTH venues. <br /><br />:)<br /><br />Maybe it's a little stuffy that the original organizers insisted on a staid, safe parade, but now y'all get the best of both worlds. Maybe next year there can be a transition between the parade and the more glorious after-party with the "Dykes on Bikes" motorcade? YES!Clairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07879042403842193554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780795730939193102.post-58393297646674451572010-06-04T23:15:57.976-05:002010-06-04T23:15:57.976-05:00I love my friends SO fucking much.
Jon and Jeff!...I love my friends SO fucking much. <br /><br />Jon and Jeff! I want to (as always) clutch you to my bosom and never let go!!<br /><br />@Alex - While captivated by your response in general, I was especially tickled by the "assless chap embracing" catch-22 road you started down in your comment...I was right beside you on that road, giggling all the way. :)<br /><br />@Rachel - I am so glad you weighed in here. Especially since you've been in Austin since the beginning of our city's own Pride, and have watched the different sects of our gay community congeal, unite, fight with each other, and party with each other.<br /><br />I have more to say but am going to pause for now; my brain stopped working about an hour ago.Austin Eavesdropperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09089689495366272459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780795730939193102.post-74409735232764822582010-06-04T21:23:48.993-05:002010-06-04T21:23:48.993-05:00As the other "gay bestie" (and non-shirt...As the other "gay bestie" (and non-shirtless pointing guy in that pic [memories!]), I--also diplomatically--can see both sides. <br /><br />For me, the high camp of Pride has always been a not-so-subtle middle finger to the oppressive gender norms placed on all of us. A reclaimation celebration! And whereas a throbbing, shirtless sea of men in a back lot studio in Hollywood can be viewed through so many telescopes (mine was manufactured by Irony, Inc.), at the end of the day: IT'S A PARTY. HAVE A DRINK, STFU, AND DANCE!<br /><br />But, I can also appreciate the clipboard-wielding, Equality Now button-sporting masses that use the opportunity for education. "Family-friendly" can be a tricky term. Mostly because its subtext often stinks of the implicit martyrdom of "I'm-going-to-try-to-judge-you-less-in-spite-of-your-difference" vs. "I'm-going-to-accept-you-as-you-are."<br /><br />Hey, we're the LGBT community. Spend this much time at the margins and you start to realize something: we, by our very nature, embrace everyone.<br /><br />Now let's dance.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00049072453292140717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780795730939193102.post-2980048108485017992010-06-04T16:37:52.576-05:002010-06-04T16:37:52.576-05:00Yay for "dance injuries" at L.A. Pride!!...Yay for "dance injuries" at L.A. Pride!! And as one of the said gay bessties, who has been to many a Pride in many a city, I think the QueerBomb idea is great! Pride was first and foremost a day to feel liberated and be who you are without judgement. We can spend the other 364 days of the year "educating."Jeffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780795730939193102.post-36265191025213225692010-06-04T15:21:27.468-05:002010-06-04T15:21:27.468-05:00Tolly, you're the awesome-est. If there was an...Tolly, you're the awesome-est. If there was an Academy Award for Awesome & you didn't have to be in a movie to get it, you'd totally have won...like 12 of them. Meryl Streep would be envious of your statue count.Frank J. Riverahttp://www.nowaustin.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780795730939193102.post-54883051157560670812010-06-04T15:20:12.313-05:002010-06-04T15:20:12.313-05:00I see both sides here (I think... it was hard to g...I see both sides here (I think... it was hard to glean much from that Chron article which, as usual, is so close to the story that they fail to aptly explain anything at all) but I'm going to have to side with the more normative and sanitized parade. I have absolutely no problem with fist shaped butt plugs and assless chap, if that's your thing, go for it. But it has a place and I don't think that place is on the streets of Austin. A pride parade can be a great experience for a child, to see families with two moms or a woman who looks a little tall and..different...that's a good thing and a great opportunity to open that discussion between people and with children. But children and families don't need to be exposed to some of the hypersexuality that is often injected into these parades. Gay people are more than just what happens between the sheets and that's why I think that the parade, which is a community event, should show that. Gay pride week is a whole damn week, there are plenty of times for sweaty shirtless nights at Rain, twinky gogo boys tossing rubbers and trannies making dick jokes, but I think the parade needs to be family friendly.Rachelhttp://www.rachelyouens.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780795730939193102.post-91089482828399830982010-06-04T15:15:21.794-05:002010-06-04T15:15:21.794-05:00I will be there!I will be there!Hipstercritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02168118598530462596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780795730939193102.post-60591728544817710942010-06-04T12:40:05.105-05:002010-06-04T12:40:05.105-05:00Listen to the beginning of Episode 189 of Dan Sava...Listen to the beginning of Episode 189 of Dan Savage's podcast: http://podcasts.thestranger.com/savagelove/<br />He makes the case for exactly what's going down here. I'm pretty indifferent to the drama that sparked this thing. QueerBomb is here and it's here to stay. Pride committees everywhere need to take note if they want to embrace this, otherwise QueerBomb can and should go viral on its own.DEstlundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01691670821878195228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780795730939193102.post-59095585917152964152010-06-04T12:12:47.033-05:002010-06-04T12:12:47.033-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.DEstlundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01691670821878195228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780795730939193102.post-88868773272159906712010-06-04T11:05:05.288-05:002010-06-04T11:05:05.288-05:00Excellent insight. Thanks for covering this. Pride...Excellent insight. Thanks for covering this. Pride shouldn't be political!Digital Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00300556111784447372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780795730939193102.post-19533396079053678212010-06-04T10:19:49.608-05:002010-06-04T10:19:49.608-05:00i am in favor of both the family-friendly celebrat...i am in favor of both the family-friendly celebration as well as the eye-poppppppping gLeeful celebration; i definitely think both have their place.<br /><br />having lived the last several years in highly conservative places (which also have PRIDE celebrations - take Bismarck, ND of all places! ZOMG!) that have the eye-poppoppopppppping celebrations that fully embrace (or don't?) assless chaps (can you be embraced by an assless chap? do you see where i'm going here? it's totally missing the embrassing ... anyway ...), i can see that even in the most closed minded, conservative places they have had super successful PRIDE celebrations - even if they may be small.<br /><br />that said, if there's any way that the LGBT community can continue to educate an inoculate folks who may be less familiar (read: comfortable) with LGBT issues, and that means having a "family-friendly" PRIDE event, then more power to them. i think the two events in Austin should complement each other ...Alexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780795730939193102.post-60802900364474836552010-06-04T10:15:25.062-05:002010-06-04T10:15:25.062-05:00SLC's Pride is this weekend as well. I'll ...SLC's Pride is this weekend as well. I'll be moving to Austin in September and can't wait to see Austin Pride next year! My little sister is a lesbian and I have many "gay besties" as you put it. I wish we had QueerBomb here!!Heather Howellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15908964530091833203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780795730939193102.post-2122791836879951622010-06-04T10:08:15.647-05:002010-06-04T10:08:15.647-05:00I admittedly wrote this post before coffee, with a...I admittedly wrote this post before coffee, with a TON of typos in it. Sorry guys if you read this while it only halfway made sense.Austin Eavesdropperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09089689495366272459noreply@blogger.com