[stylist] LGBTQ REVISITED

Tue Mar 25 04:22:22 UTC 2014

Hi all, 

I am still writing the play about the bisexual transgender male. I would
just like to update on some of the issues that I have read about and
talking to lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning
(LGBTQQ) peoples. One of the issues that I have read about is that many
of the characters that are seen on movies that are acting as LGBTQQ are
mostly heteorsexual and cisgender (people whose gender idenity and
assigned sex match), play LGBTQQ characters. There has been some
controversy in the LGBTQQ community where they want people who actually
identify as LGBTQQ. 

Another issue that I would like to bring up is the inclusion of people
with disabilities who also identify as LGBTQQ wanting inclusion as well.
Even within the LGBTQQ community, there is still discrimination and
bias. 

Thanks, 

Katie 

On 24.03.2014 20:23, Bridgit Pollpeter wrote: 

> Jackie,
> 
> The movie is Tu Wong Fu: To Julie Newmar, with Love, starring Patrick
> Swayze, and yes, it was a funny but heart-felt movie. It was made in the
> mid-90's.
> 
> Bridgit
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jackie
> Williams
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 7:42 PM
> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [stylist] LGBTQ REVISITED
> 
> I AM STILL REVISITING ALL THE E-MAILS I MISSED. Well, I enclosed my few
> about spiders. I have had a hard time remembering the meanings of all
> these letters, but I have one or two poems that might nibble on the
> edges. I have known many gay men, some fellow teachers, two of whom
> adopted. Quite amazing for Arizona. Better parents I never knew. I also
> found that my Great Aunt Dora, a heroine of mine throughout my life,
> left a letter when she died asking that her headstone be placed next to
> another woman's headstone, and a tender letter was enclosed. A very
> attractive woman, she refused offers of
> marriage, and became the Librarian at Upper Iowa University. When she
> retired after fifty years, an old beau asked her again, and she again
> refused. Years after this mystery, an answer. Then, some years ago, I
> saw a movie with a Chinese title about a drag queen. It starred the
> dancer who also starred in ghost, and it was hilarious. I also visited
> a friend in San Francisco, and went first to a place to eat and see the
> belly dancers. Then we went next door and saw endless men in drag. I had
> to write about a man with a mother that could be me, and his wife and
> child who could be my daughter-in-law. Other than my imagination, I
> don't have a lot of knowledge, except my scientific-based beliefs, that
> is most developments take place in the womb, and sometimes are highly
> influenced also by environments that cannot help but magnify or turn the
> tide to an already genetic pattern. Now that I think of it, I have three
> poems that touch in some way on one or another of these "letters."
> I suggest that you read this first line by line, and spell
> out the few words that are not phonetic, then read it a second time with
> insert, down arrow. It is long, 73 lines. I submitted it to Georgia for
> several years, since I understood it to be the drag queen capitol of the
> U.S., but it must have offended someone to claim it as part of their
> history. It is a marathon of rhyming, and if you do not hear it, the
> format has not remained true. Category 4 Jacqueline Williams
> Expressing Beliefs In All Ways 1431
> W.
> 7th Place
> 
> Mesa, AZ 85201
> 
> 480-834-1782
> 
> The Evolution of a Drag Queen
> 
> "My Mother, nothing comes to mind 
> to extricate me from my bind."
> Athletic honors, throwing shot 
> and javelin were surely not
> the skills that now will make up for 
> a youth I wasted. I foreswore
> the effort facing learning times, 
> realities and saving dimes.
> All those awards led me astray 
> until too late, though I must say
> the medals for my breaststroke swims 
> left me big "pecs" and long strong limbs.
> I had a decent resume 
> before I lost my job. Foul play 
> robbed goals set by my love and me 
> for newborn son, cast them asea.
> 
> "My son, I'll think about it soon." 
> So often, Mom, I've heard this tune.
> You'll wear your gowns and gaudy rings 
> to hifalutin social things.
> Oh, wait, my quite majestic mom, 
> so tall, so buxom, such aplomb.
> Ideas brew-a rushing tide. 
> I'll find a conquest for my bride.
> 
> You gone, your spikes upon my feet, 
> I walk and fall and still repeat
> a practice that becomes my code, 
> a perfect imagery, the mode.
> I've got the walk, now what to do 
> to make the perfect witch's brew
> that causes me to light the flame? 
> Please bring me soon to newborn fame.
> 
> My wife's peach-pink scant underpants 
> inspire an undulating dance.
> While she, adored, earns great big bucks, 
> I hold the bottle my son sucks.
> As "Mister Mom," I take him here 
> and there and now it's everywhere.
> The beauty parlor-such a place! 
> He always grins his funny face.
> We hang out as a winsome pair. 
> The ladies think us both quite fair.
> As one beautician holds him tight, 
> another makes my eyes shine bright.
> Eye shadow, glitter, wigs all glow. 
> My heart beats fast. My wife will know
> the depth of love I feel for her. 
> Oh, dear, my makeup must not blur.
> I slowly roll my thigh-highs up- 
> the jet-black net-oh, quite corrupt.
> 
> My mom and wife will meet for dinner. 
> I pray that they will see a winner.
> Mother, son and dearest one 
> arrive all laughing, full of fun-
> awash in new-felt wonderments 
> at rainbow fans on fundaments.
> They do not know I'm here, you see, 
> cast eyes at entrance doors. Oh me.
> 
> The drum roll comes and I sashay 
> the runway, not one hair astray.
> Bestowing smiles on all alike-
> arched eyebrows, winks, I pass my tyke
> with arms outstretched and then he knows 
> his "Mommy" right down to my toes.
> 
> And now when all is said and done, 
> with kudos to my lovely one,
> she must compete with all those droves 
> who bring me gifts and treasure troves
> of drag queens-past and present tense. 
> I hope that I'll maintain the sense
> to build a future-one to see- 
> that's free of fear and bigotry.
> 
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