@Iovemelo Every time you tell this lie, you spit on the sacrifice and coiurage of thousands of gays and lesbians who did the actual heavy lifting. Fuck off with that
Please stop saying “you need to have empathy for Karmelo… it could have been you!”
No, it could not have been me. It could not have been my daughter. It could not have been my brothers. It could not have been my nieces or nephews.
Why not?
We’re not out randomly picking fights and then stabbing dudes at track meets.
Now, if they start handing out jail sentences for roasting former congresswomen, crackheads, or leftists, I’m getting consecutive life sentences. I’m also going to identify as a woman because… reasons… I’m not spending the rest of my life looking at a bunch of men.
But Karmelo and I are two different dudes. Stop trying to put his dumb shit on those of us with common sense and decency.
The reason there’s no modern day capote/vidal/warhol/baldwin is because post gay rights homosexuals were all shuffled into one broad category where they had to either play the clown or the hero. Now every bit of gay art falls into one of those two categories. It’s either a humiliation ritual about a sex addicted buffoon or an overcoming “oppression” narrative. Having to be secret to some extent, despite everyone knowing their proclivities, created a mystery around them that produced good art. Truman couldn’t turn to Babe Paley and offer her poppers while making some joke about anal sex at one of her dinner parties. He had to be more creative than that, wittier. A refinement was required, a bit of a game, like the geisha who is not quite a prostitute. Now it’s just bussy out, being called brave for showing hole online because you’re “living your authentic self,” and 1000 tweets a day about douching.