Mark Simpson: Respectability is the New Closet

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 12:59pm

"Forty years after the Stonewall riots, the gay community finds itself in headlong pursuit of a rather hypocritical decorum."

I've LOVED Mark Simpson since he edited the Anti-Gay anthology in 1996. I'm thinking of creating a Vlog character where I paraphrase his ideas! Perhaps I will use the voice of a sassy black woman, "Uh-huh, that's right, don't hate me for telling the truth!" or a infomercial salesman guy, "You KNOW you want the white picket fence; you DESERVE to be as bland as everybody else!"
"The more things a man is ashamed of," George Bernard Shaw wrote, "the more respectable he is."

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 1:10pm

Oh, for the sake that belongs to Peter.

Posted: 6/2/09 at 1:29pm

Ok, who's going to scream loudest and longest?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 4:30pm

Quiet you two. I'm working on my web vlogentary character. I'm thinking sort of a sassy black Rachel Maddowy glasses wearing smart girl ex-beauty queenish TV therapist type of direction!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 4:38pm

Maybe this quote from the comments sums it up best.

"But maybe it's yours and my generation - we were inculcated on the milk of outlawism, whereas young gays expect to be treated as equal to their heterosexual brothers and sisters."

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 4:45pm

So, basically the polar opposite of Dr. Phil? You should call her Riah and her catchphrase can be, "Hey, I'm just being honest".

Tell it, tell it, tell it like it T-I is.

I guess Aretha Franklin has been rendered completely irrelevant now.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 4:48pm

What about those gay people who want marriage rights AND want to screw around how they see fit? I know there are some out there, including on this board. Where do they fit in?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/2/09 at 5:20pm

Matt, I think "Hey, I'm just being honest" is already used by people who parody Simon Cowell, but I want to take my vlogentator in a different direction. More of a Tootie/Geri Blank/Mary Catherine Gallagher/Sally Jesse type of thing.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/3/09 at 2:54pm

Toss-toss...

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/3/09 at 3:11pm

Yes, more in a Tyray/Tempest Bledsoeish/Dr. Keith Ablowy kind of a thing.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/3/09 at 3:15pm

That's what I thought. You so crazy!