Um, as someone pushing fifty who was out when y'all weren't even fetuses, can I sort of call bullshit on all this?
Classy? Awesome? As opposed to what? The activists who literally put their lives on the line every day to be out when it wasn't so easy? The ones like Quentin Crisp who got the shit beat out of them on a daily basis because they weren't in the closet?
I'm not expecting every queer to be an activist. But it's sort of irking to read a thread where it sort of seems like y'all are patting yourselves on the backs for NOT being activists, when it was activists who put their asses on the line to make the cozy world you live in now.
Pierce could have come out years ago, stunned no one, and made a difference. He could have come out and said, you know, I'm in the public eye and as such, I have this special power! I can show all your parents that queers CAN have happy, fulfilling lives. Instead, he -- as nelly as they come, by the way, and fooling no one except high school kids -- waited until it was nice and safe and then just slipped it in under the radar.
Mind you, I have nothing against him, and I support him coming out, but you won't find me lining up to valorize the way he's done it.
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Date: 2007-06-01 07:41 pm (UTC)Classy? Awesome? As opposed to what? The activists who literally put their lives on the line every day to be out when it wasn't so easy? The ones like Quentin Crisp who got the shit beat out of them on a daily basis because they weren't in the closet?
I'm not expecting every queer to be an activist. But it's sort of irking to read a thread where it sort of seems like y'all are patting yourselves on the backs for NOT being activists, when it was activists who put their asses on the line to make the cozy world you live in now.
Pierce could have come out years ago, stunned no one, and made a difference. He could have come out and said, you know, I'm in the public eye and as such, I have this special power! I can show all your parents that queers CAN have happy, fulfilling lives. Instead, he -- as nelly as they come, by the way, and fooling no one except high school kids -- waited until it was nice and safe and then just slipped it in under the radar.
Mind you, I have nothing against him, and I support him coming out, but you won't find me lining up to valorize the way he's done it.