I know that each one of Even In Blackouts has grown up with close gay friends. They are so ingrained in our lives that I don’t usually even acknowledge the difference. Statements and actions against queerness as a sexual preference is dehumanizing. Homophobia is not just ignorance, that would be simplifying. It is a manifestation of self loathing, and insecurity. To ask if queers should be involved in the punk scene is like asking the sky if it’s all right to breathe.
Now with that said, I am and have always been slightly uncomfortable when propositioned by a gay man, it causes me to question the heterosexual world I walk in. Hooray for them! I am usually very confident that I am about as heterosexual as they come, and yet I am proud and tickled pink when a man finds me attractive. Sex, validation, and compassion, we all want it . We all deserve it.
John Jughead Pierson
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Well said. I was turned on to screeching weasel by a straight roommate of mine. I too am straight and, uh, equal? I was just listening to “i wanna be a homosexual” and i remembered that though my roommate told me the song was pro-tolerance (equality, what have you, not saying there is anything that needs to be ‘tolerated’), other people are hard to convince of that, and I didn’t really know myself firsthand.
To me it was always a “fuck you if you can’t think of yourself or your loved ones being gay” but shit, thats a bold assumption, especially if you listen to the very sarcastic full version with the dialogue intro.
anyway, good shit.
Screeching Weasel is probably one of the most influential bands in my life. Without their music, i doubt i would have made it through high school. Being gay, i found songs like “I wanna be a homosexual” extremely liberating and empowering. I had never heard of any gay bands, and to hear a band i LOVED so much have a song that directly applied to my life was awesome. Of course later on I found Pansy Division, and many other great queer bands, and i’m starting to feel like there ARE people out there like me, and it really is a good feeling.
And about getting hit on by gay men, i have experienced getting hit on by straight women, and although i’m flattered, its pretty damn uncomfortable for me too! haha
-Josh
Being hit on by straight women can be uncomfortable, yes. I’m currently enduring a straight woman thinking she’s in love with me. Sigh…