Just Think, Your Tax Money Might be Financing Her Student Aid
From the Vermont Cynic at the University of Vermont:
Art exhibit “Marriage = Death: A Transqueer Critique of Homonormativity” raises awareness about LGBTQA politics and represents queer art in the Burlington community.
In the exhibit, senior Hannah Melton combines raw, provocative text with objects to take a stance against mainstream queer stereotypes.
Chances are that most people who visit the exhibit will not have previous knowledge that mainstream queerness exists in the queer community, as well as in corporations, Hollywood and the political world.
“Homonormativity is when people who are not straight want to assimilate into hetero-institutions and are interested in fighting for rights, like marriage, that don’t necessarily benefit the queer community as a whole,” Melton said. “We need greater queer representation.”
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The problems Melton described were magnified by the intensity of the surrounding exhibit.
Many of the pieces presented a queer critique of not only marriage, but also gender conformity and the mainstreaming of LGBTQA politics, bodies, and practices.
Dangling skeletons dressed in torn, rainbow colored linen announced “Just Buried” with Day of the Dead decor and dangling, crushed beer cans.
In the holy grail of Trojan pleasure, limp condoms hung precisely from a wooden board with a heart-shaped foam Valentine that read, “Want me, please me, use me, protect me.”
In case you're wondering, the 'Q' and 'A' in LGBTQA stand for "questioning" and "allies." And yes, if you read the piece closely, you'll notice a studious avoidance of any gendered pronouns -- they had to take those out after a complaint from Ms. Melton. One strains to imagine the fatigue of being so perpetually aggrieved.
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Apr '12
Re: Just Think, Your Tax Money Might be Financing Her Student Aid
I do understand how tough it is to be gay in a straight world. This is a voice saying gays want to be seen as more than one stereo type. A British politician dared to say gays do not need marriage because civil union gave them all the benefits and partner legalities that marriage brings. He said to leave marriage to the religious ceremony. The US gays are using it to bash main homo population.Here in Canada, we have had gay marriage for a decade I think and my older gay friends are disappointed that the young gays are moving into family neighborhoods with their kids. The Toronto Gay Parade is now fully dressed, not angry any more. There are debates about whether it should have funding from the city anymore as gay is now mainstream. I welcome that so there would be a lack of gay voices wanting the gay lifestyle. The gays have morphed to the homo lifestyle AKA Modern Family.I get the gender wording too. My daughter writes business books and uses her initial only on the front cover and hides her gender in auther, profile. So did JK Rawling. It is economic choices.
Jul '11
Re: Just Think, Your Tax Money Might be Financing Her Student Aid
Troy, I hate to say this, but this is just another day at the office at UVM ('92 grad), and Burlington, VT, in general. I should open a self-flagellation clinic here in the Queen City (oops! Have I offended someone with my phallically-derived worldview?) and rake in the federally-subsidized bucks so "victims" can really get their suffering on.
*ssclowns. This is the result of raising emotional babies through the age of adulthood. I'll say it again: Compare the average 22 year-old American "kid" on June 6, 1944, and June 6, 2012, and you'd probably notice a rather large and glaring deficiency in character and ability between the two.
Um, if that weren't already screamingly obvious.