The basement reeked of patchouli and rebellion tonight, thick smoke curling around string lights that cast prismatic shadows across water-stained ceiling tiles.
I always felt like creators were given a little more freedom to be “different” when watching all the LGBTQ+ creators. I don’t know which comes first - I came up with my first novel idea when I was seven or eight years old (probably seven, if I add in the fact the summer I was eight was at Mariann’s and not home, and I remember working on the story on the floor of our living room) - at that time, in a fundamentalist Baptist, heteronormative world, I had not other expectation but to one day marry a man and make babies. Even then I was working on art, prose, poetry and music.
Christianity and Islam have been doing it to Queer and other despised, marginalized people from the inception of their religions of hatred, judgement, condemnation and murder! Not just Queer folks, but: Africans; Celtic Peoples; Hindus; Southeast Asians; Aboriginal/First Nations Peoples!
Art, theater, literature, music, dance, cuisine, healing, philosophy, technology, on and on!!!!
Beautiful recreation of our history! BTW what happened here? Phoenix , dear, you know Mom has seen Freddie play live before rithrt"
Typo again. Fixed it.
Typos or not, you are still a fabulous writer and I always look for these crazy bar tales.
I always felt like creators were given a little more freedom to be “different” when watching all the LGBTQ+ creators. I don’t know which comes first - I came up with my first novel idea when I was seven or eight years old (probably seven, if I add in the fact the summer I was eight was at Mariann’s and not home, and I remember working on the story on the floor of our living room) - at that time, in a fundamentalist Baptist, heteronormative world, I had not other expectation but to one day marry a man and make babies. Even then I was working on art, prose, poetry and music.
Christianity and Islam have been doing it to Queer and other despised, marginalized people from the inception of their religions of hatred, judgement, condemnation and murder! Not just Queer folks, but: Africans; Celtic Peoples; Hindus; Southeast Asians; Aboriginal/First Nations Peoples!
Art, theater, literature, music, dance, cuisine, healing, philosophy, technology, on and on!!!!
Hah! I bet you didn't know I took a class on Korea and Vietnam and the teacher brought in James Baldwin as a guest speaker! Berkeley, 1979.
Wow!