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yin & yang, kid weekend edition
Aug. 3rd, 2015 10:52 amGood: Picnic on Mercer Island to watch the Blue Angels. To tell you the truth, if m'boy hadn't wanted to go, I wouldn't have bothered.
Bad: I couldn't persuade him to go to Riz's hip hop thing down in the CD. It was sort of a mini-street festival.
Good: I got him to watch "The Celluloid Closet" with me. He agreed that it doesn't suck. It's mainly about depictions of queers in US & UK movies throughout the 20th century. It's a nice coincidence that the first Hollywood movie to depict queers as neither villains nor doomed nor jokes - you know, happy - since the jazz age was The Boys in the Band from 1970, just months after Stonewall.
Favorite quote, from Harvey Fierstein: "Negative visibility is better than no visibility." I hate to say it, but he's right. Just the knowledge that you are not alone is powerful, and that was even truer in the middle of the twentieth century, when queers had no freedom of the press or assembly.
And Marlene Dietrich in "Morocco"? Oh. Em. Gee. I can't believe that made it onto a screen, even pre-Hays code. No wonder the woman's an icon. And the people responsible for the Hays code? Looked and sounded like they might be people responsible for the Hays code.
Bad: Yelled at kid for leaving dirty dishes around. Loudly. You would too after the several hundredth time and hell no, I am not exaggerating.
Good: Cooked, for the first time in four weeks, for him.
Bad: He's a cell phone game addict. Getting him to put his stupid phone down and do anything else is a frequent struggle.
Bad: I couldn't persuade him to go to Riz's hip hop thing down in the CD. It was sort of a mini-street festival.
Good: I got him to watch "The Celluloid Closet" with me. He agreed that it doesn't suck. It's mainly about depictions of queers in US & UK movies throughout the 20th century. It's a nice coincidence that the first Hollywood movie to depict queers as neither villains nor doomed nor jokes - you know, happy - since the jazz age was The Boys in the Band from 1970, just months after Stonewall.
Favorite quote, from Harvey Fierstein: "Negative visibility is better than no visibility." I hate to say it, but he's right. Just the knowledge that you are not alone is powerful, and that was even truer in the middle of the twentieth century, when queers had no freedom of the press or assembly.
And Marlene Dietrich in "Morocco"? Oh. Em. Gee. I can't believe that made it onto a screen, even pre-Hays code. No wonder the woman's an icon. And the people responsible for the Hays code? Looked and sounded like they might be people responsible for the Hays code.
Bad: Yelled at kid for leaving dirty dishes around. Loudly. You would too after the several hundredth time and hell no, I am not exaggerating.
Good: Cooked, for the first time in four weeks, for him.
Bad: He's a cell phone game addict. Getting him to put his stupid phone down and do anything else is a frequent struggle.
