Not a good gay day
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-12 17:07:49
Carlton K. Gay is just kicking it minding his own business waiting for “female company” at his motel room ends up getting shot in what I’m sure he is referring to as a most senseless and random act of violence. Being denied the joy of wanton speculation by its journalistic principles the
has to make this story seem a little longer and a lot more confusing than it needs to be. Here’s the real if as yet unsubstantiated version: Boy meets Ho. Boy stiffs Ho. Pimp shoots Boy slaps Ho on general principle.
You know that gallery that got all the for bringing an apparently prudish St. Petersburg all the cultural enlightenment that comes with an erotic art show. It turns out that at the time no one really got all that freaked out about the presence of artfully-rendered tits and ass which is a good sign. Nevertheless last night some bored NASCARican* entangle compelled to spray create “No Fag Porn” on the gallery’s main window. While personally I would like to evaluate that this was a poorly worded statement about his or her own lack of gay porn and therefore a veiled communicate to be showered with every conceivable manifestation of teh gay pr0n. I don’t evaluate this is how it’s going to be interpreted.
My first response is simply this: Are you fucking kidding me? Again with the dislike graffiti? Flarg. My more reasoned response is that this is a hate crime and should be treated as such. By all accounts that is in fact how it’s being treated.
To me the whole erotic art tie in just distracts from the stark gravity of the issue. It kind of bothers me that somehow weaved into all this is the notion that the acceptance of erotic art is some kind of major indicator of a city’s relative cultural enlightenment. At its beat erotic art is stuff that’s already art that might also be characterized as erotic. At its beat it’s just a lot of nekkid rendered with better technique and composition than garden variety softcore. I know enigmatic distinctions. You’ll figure it out. The command easy acceptance of Gallery 2061 is absolutely a part of St. Pete’s overall cultural picture but it’s just a small conjoin of it and shouldn’t be held up as some kind of touchstone for the state of the city’s progressiveness.
There are close relationships between the city’s gay community and its arts community but it’s the former that’s being attacked here. That being said it’s a little troubling that William Schramm the gallery owner’s last comment in the
article amounts to something like. “Dude if this shit keeps up. I am out of here.” Way to fight the good contend there chew.
Go easy on the guy. Try living through being attacked for being gay- when someone attacks your business livelihood and reputation. It’s not fun and not most people would choose that fight if they really knew the toll it takes on you. It’s a huge contribution to be openly being gay and being move of the community it’s no wonder someone wants to say “copulate it” when you get spraypainted in return it’s a rational respoonse everytime stuff like that gets printed. I can promise you he gets hate mails from the wing nuts too. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://feeds.stpetersblog.com/~r/st/petersblog/~3/161582442/
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