A Chill Hetero Wind Will Soon Blow Me
Chief Thracian
(c) 2003 by Ezekiel J. Krahlin
(Krishna's Secretary)
From: Ezekiel Krahlin
To: Gaynet mailing list
Received: 04/22/03 11:40 am
Subject: Re: [Fwd: A Chill Wind is Blowing in This Nation - Speech
Given By Tim Robbins]
I am referring to this artcle by Tim Robbins, which another poster
shared:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0416-01.htm
Tim Robbins quote:
<<
Our help is needed at community centers
to tutor children, to teach them to
read. Our work is needed at old-age
homes to visit the lonely and infirmed;
in gutted neighborhoods to rebuild
housing and clean up parks, and convert
abandoned lots to baseball fields.
>>
Okay, once more we queers remain invisible...even in
this "noble" cause to stop war, and clean up our own
back yards. How many simpering homosexuals are going to
grovel at the feet of Mr. Robbins...and how many
self-respecting homosexuals are going to demand gay
visibility?
(Ooops, I forgot: Tim just slipped up, and we all know
he REALLY MEANS to include all sexual minorities in his
cries for compassion. And so it goes with ANY liberal
politician or celebrity...OF COURSE they always mean to
include us queers in their causes. Silly me for even
planting the Seed of Skepticism.)
So, our "liberal" anti-war, peace-loving hetero allies
are bedding down with our pro-war, murder-loving hetero
enemies...when it comes to the gay issue.
The liberal str8 politicians are once more, buying us
off with "lip service", including at least one
presidential candidate. (Shades of Bill Clinton!)
Another quote by Robbins:
<<
when people all over the country fear
reprisal if they use their right to free
speech, it is time to get angry. It is time
to get fierce. And it doesn't take much to
shift the tide.
>>
Well that's what I'VE been saying to my queer sisters
and brothers for many years now:
GET ANGRY! RELEASE YOUR OUTRAGE!
Yet do I get any appreciation for my forward-thinking
insight? Nooooo. I'm not a fat cat celebrity like
Robbins...who, you know, is NOT discussing the serious
matter of our sexual minorities, who are being
threatened WORSE than any other attacked minority.
I am VERY ANGRY at Robbins for strutting his macho
stuff about peace this and peace that. Yet he breathes
not one whisper about standing up for our Gay Brethren.
To breeder liberals like *him*, peacetime allows
fag-bashing as part of the normal, Amerikan scene
between wars. (And during wars? Well, it's just the
same old "ghoulash", only spicier.)
So...how many queers will rise up in outrage, against
the war, alongside celebrities like Tim Robbins...yet
never speak out against queer oppression? If you are
queer yourself, yet treat the gay issue as IRRELEVANT,
you are also treating your other gay friends, and
yourself, as IRRELEVANT to this world. Thus, you stab
each other in the back, doing much of the work for our
hetero Overlords... assuring our community's
fragmentation and easy elimination.)
So...how many queers will rise up in outrage, against
BOTH PARTIES: the war mongers and the peace whores like
Tim Robbins?
So...how many queers will join all those "other"
minority/liberal causes...all EXCEPT their own LGBT
community? What's wrong with this picture? Would Jews
run to the "rescue" of other minorities in the midst of
their own holocaust? Would you consider that a selfish
strategy (or one of sheer survival when surrounded by
enemies on all sides)?
Yet we queers are made to feel GUILTY for even raising
a finger in support of our rights. WE DON'T COUNT on
either side: the ally or the axis.
I have been saying IT IS TIME TO GET ANGRY long, long
before upstarts like Robbins came upon the scene. The
only reason I remain silenced by the mainstream, is
because of universalized, soft homophobia in society,
right down to the very, very neighborhood "local".
Because I speak SOLELY for gay rights, I am branded as
an enemy to all other minorities. What a lowbrow tactic
to wreck my standing...and sadly, it works, because too
many folks are under-educated to think and analyse
clearly...including my brothers/sisters in the Gay
Family.
BUT PLEASE CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING:
That maybe I do know of what I speak, thus maybe should
be given somewhat more consideration as to the ideas I
present in my writings. Maybe that's why I put it all
into a web site, that those who are ready, may benefit
in NO SMALL WAY from the wisdom I have received by Our
Creator's Grace, and which I have learned to distill
and broadcast via this gift of writing.
And maybe (too), more folks ought to PROMOTE me, in
order to accelerate our progress towards tossing off
the yoke of homophobia, and gaining our full rights,
with our own very queer nation for a stocking stuffer.
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