How is it not representation? Hayley Kiyoko is a lesbian and Kehlani is bisexual and it features a romantic/sexual relationship between the two. Additionally, almost all of Kiyoko’s videos are directed by her and feature lesbian relationships or fantasies. No one said it wasn’t true of men, it’s just that this video and her music happens to be about women.
“She and Kiyoko hang out, drink, party, with the exact nature of their relationship unclear until the end of the video.”
and that description makes the audience straight with a “surprise” ending
rather than being directed at a lgbtq audience, who are waiting for the queer content, rather than a well duh, that took too long to get to a point.
it’ boring, coy and queer representation keeps repeating coming out and marginalized themes, because we’re not represented
and watered down, are they, aren’t they, is making queer the thing, rather than characters or plot, and never advancing beyond the original tropes embedded in entertainment since the beginning.
There’s a lot of music being made that capitalizes on female bi-flexibility.
This is not that.
Kiyoko is a lesbian. She had an unusual amount of creative control on this project, which contributes to its authenticity. Unlike a lot of “LGBT” content churned out by (cis-het) media execs, her video and album cover are NOT directed to the straight male gaze, but reflect her own sensibilities.
I remember when Ani DeFranco and Michelle Shocked both started as lesbian singers, both married men.
I am not familiar with Kiyoko, and did not get the impression from the article that she is in the club, instead of being a tourist and just pandering to a heterogaze.
“She and Kiyoko hang out, drink, party, with the exact nature of their relationship unclear until the end of the video.”
and that description makes the audience straight with a “surprise” ending
rather than being directed at a lgbtq audience, who are waiting for the queer content, rather than a well duh, that took too long to get to a point.
By “straight male gaze” I didn’t mean straight folks weren’t the intended audience— I mean that, you know, we can tell when a lesbian scene is shot with men’s preferences in mind, whether that’s a hackneyed straight-girl screen kiss or gay for pay lesbian porn. This isn’t that.
That doesn’t mean it’s not representation. I think good LGBT representation in media, regardless of intended audience, is the most effective tool to change cis-het hearts and minds. Maybe unpick a little bigotry.
Kiyoko is an out lesbian, she’s talked about it in interviews and stuff. Maybe her sexuality will be as fluid as Ani’s, maybe not— but we of all people know how important it is to take someone at their word when it comes to sexuality. We are not the gatekeepers.
and LGBTQ representation is back to a coy, are they aren’t they.
We are in an era of AIDS almost being a chronically manageable illness
Post a small number of Period Piece Queer Oscar movies – Boys Don’t Cry, Brokeback Mountain, TransAmerica (no lesbian oscar movie) and so post Carol, Fried Green Tomatoes and Desert Hearts.
the 1980s and 1970s of queers being killed or suicided
the 1960s and 1950s of queers being predators
and pre-Hayes Code, just part of the archetypes of overly fussy fancy men and butch women on the margins.
so these types of presentations of queers catering to a mainstream view of we’re here too, if that’s okay with you
Art really has not progressed society much
when yesterday, America’s broken supreme court, ended the rule of law with allowing personal religion exemptions to the law.
why not?….there’s about 8 other white supremacists, who call themselves, ‘nationalists’, that are running for political offices. He’s just another name on a list of jerkoffs…
When do the American media ever ask the kind of difficult questions a politician might find uncomfortable? To do so might cost them their precious “access,” i.e. they’d actually have to work at news gathering rather than just waiting for the next White House press handout. Horrors! I’m sure the very thought makes their blood run cold.
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Memphis, Tennessee
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The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
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U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy made the unsubstantiated charge that there were communists working in the Central Intelligence Agency and at American atomic weapons plants.
A sleepy Jazz tune called “Moonglow” by Morris Stoloff And The Columbia Pictures Orchestra pushed Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” out of the top spot on the Cashbox Best Sellers List.
Elvis and Gene Smith flew to Oakland, California, where they arrived at 4.00 a.m. and met with…
uh, it doesn’t, and guess what, nothing in the article says it even is genetic, born that way means born that way, not born that way because of only genetics.
uh, not this layperson, and if someone is so ignorant that born that way means only genetic, then their opinion is one of someone totally ill informed as to the subject.
btw, why is pointing out that born that way doesn’t MEAN genetics not an exchange of meaning? seems that way to me, and btw, i DON”T believe being gay is 100% genetic at all, i think the preponderance of evidence is that it is at least in part EPI genetic, which is INCLUDED in “born that way” even if some are ignorant as to what born that way MEANS.
your second response is to lurch from a meaningless and imprecise phrase “born that way” being meaningful to the science bioglogy term “genetics”
to a science jargon overthink that “genetics” is somehow different than “epigenetics”, when they are merely the direct parents and the context of heredity over generations,
rearing and nurturing certainly shape whatever the genetic potential of the offspring within the family
and how the family is treated in the larger society
so, when there is a “freedom to pursuit happiness”
it doesn’t matter if individual sexual orientation behaviour/expression are genetic or free will choice
deviation should be expected in any group, and indeed, over human history across cultures and observed in over 1,000 mammal species too
so it’s just something that we animals do, and people need to stop being bothered by other people managing their own lives with the same rights and dignity in the public square.
arithrianos Nina Trygg•11 hours agouh, not this layperson, and if someone is so ignorant that born that way means only genetic, then their opinion is one of someone totally ill informed as to the subject.
lol, epi genetics is abvout ENVIROMENT, so it is different, i get you dont care for precison, don’t berate me if i do.
not a nit pick at all, it proves that what you said is not true, it is 100% possible to be someone that does not believe that being gay is genetic yet still supports lgb rights, you know, like ME?
I prefer the theory in John C. Wathey’s book, “The Illusion of God’s Presence”. Basically, infants are more-or-less born with the certainty that a mom is there, somewhere, and will come when called:
“Even if she cannot be immediately seen, heard, tasted, or felt, the mother still exists. Even if she takes what seems an eternity to respond to the infant’s cries, she still exists. This knowledge would give an infant separated from its mother the persistence to keep crying for her, even if hunger and exhaustion would otherwise compel silence and rest to conserve energy. This hardwired, innate sense of certainty of the mother’s existence is, by definition, certainty in the absence of evidence. The infant is certain because certainty confers a survival advantage.”
This certainty-mom-is-nearby circuitry has been hacked by religion.
Religiosity, like being progressive or conservative, cishet or some flavour of LGBT, is inbuilt and arises spontaneously. It’s hard coded and – unlike the anti-LGBT fantasy of eradicating LGBT behaviour from society in a couple of generations by ‘just cracking down hard enough’ – can’t be eradicated from society. We can only learn to more-or-less deal with the negative effects.
Other than that, the above series of posts by a Nina put out by the apparent contradiction of the assertion “religion is mental illness” appears very like that of anti-LGBT commenters asserting that ‘transgenders are mentally ill’. The touches of nationalism and straw-manning in the missives only adds to the resemblance.
they you patronized me by pretending I had first amendment rights, assuming american
and after I corrected you on my nationality to Canadian
and that American Women don’t have rights because ERA not ratified
so you are over reacting to being disagreed with and demonstrated to be in error
so are now lashing out with a baseless accusation based on your limited ability to grasp grammar concepts and political propaganda tropes and misapply those to a queer person posting on a queer newspaper site
so you are now claiming I am anti LGBTQ because you assume a format means more than content
which are more words that you’ll read or understand.
I know, right? I’ve never understood that. I work at a sandwich shop and I greet people with a friendly “hi there! How are you today?” “is there anything I can get for you?”, and a “see you later.” when they leave. 🙂
Not to mention all the times people called Michelle Obama an ape and freaked out when she wore a sleeveless dress
but Melanie/Melania Trump’s doing fake lesbian porn for men’s magazines is somehow classy.
I do see a difference between Rosanne Barr’s tired racist trope being applied to a politician and Samantha Bee’s name calling Ivanka Trump for claiming to be a moderating influence, when her white house appointment is utter nepotism as the difference between hate of a group where an individual is made to represent and commentary on an individual and their conduct in theri sphere of influence.
Also Kathy Griffin, the professional comedian and her severed Trump photo, as art commentary of politics as a being socially valid, unlike random members of the public who lynched President Obama in effigy on their front yards.
it is time for those white people to stop making white embarrassing and people need to be called out out for being bothered that others get to exist.
it’s a teachable moment that working and playing well together is not political correctness, cooperative behaviours are the greater social good.
I remember that. I remember saying “WTF?!” Who the hell do they think they are? They’re just saying things like that because he’s a negro. They can’t stand the thought of a politician in the White House who’s skin colour isn’t the same as “Most Americans.” Talk about backwards thinking!
I know. That’s what I liked about Obama as President. He included all Americans as Americans. I totally agree with you about getting away from national labels. We’re all humans.
I also liked Bill Clinton. He may not have been the best president we could’ve had. I’m sure he had more than one affair, not just Monica Lewinski, but there were things he did that I liked.
under President Clinton, there was a lot “for the economy” as a measurable; it was the infamous “stupid” sign he posted
and he advanced the social public debate forward
he was the first sexy president in years
after Elvis Presley’s GI Haircut, Clinton’s airplane runway one was America’s most expensive.
Hilary headed drafting the first attempt at health care for everyone as First Lady
and that meeting with Gays and Lesbians at the White House
resulted in IGLA, the International Gay and Lesbian Association, the first queer umbrella group to gain UN Advisor Status, and began the inclusion of queers in rights at the UN
so imagine, Eleanor Roosevelt’s mid 1960s proclaimation
if she had been able to be included, given Loreena Hicks.
People remember Queer Nation, Act Up and Lesbian Avengers because it was the young and sexy activists being queer in public
while the less cute and heavier activists did most of the committee work
especially since “most” are no longer “white”
demographically shrinking and why the anti-abortion and “rape is legit contraceptive method” pubically expressed quoted by republican elected officials
and what they really mean to say is “real Americans”
and the people who understand what they are saying
are the bigots who loath women of their own kind, and men and women of all other kinds, and fear those who act as if the other sexually and change gender and confuse their whole world view, why they demand to be able to rape and murder anyone to objects to their having or them being had by another person.
“family values” was code for anti queer, but also pro spousal rape and incest, as far back as the 1990s and the mainstream didn’t listen
even as Focus on the Family published their child abuse manuals favoring rods over children.
they love the troops and leave veterans homeless
the only group that is larger than suddenly homeless LGTBQ teens
meanwhile Florida Gov Jeb Bush and President Bush the Lessor sent healthy men and women into war
while shutting down government over a vegetative coma Terry Schivo to prevent her husband from ending no faint hope even life support
in favor of her parents , so, really, so much for family values of marriage is the prime relationship
and marriage is contract law that does just that very thing
why the “civil union” was a lessor state that did not create the same level of kinship and in the USA and Canada, it’s over 1,000 rights connected to legilation and equal access and treatment under the law
and what the right most fear to speak of is
1970s Affirmative Action was general compensation for past historic wrongs
women never got such a settlement, just an okay, we’re supposed to include you, and in America, the ERA remain unratified
and LGBTQ have won right in the court
we are getting pardons and aplogies
so compensation is the next phase
and, so it’s the passing on of oral history
that is a new thing for LGBTQ when humanity itself now has more generations than ever before living at the same time
so it is amazing to see, how identities play out over generations
during the extended lifetime our species now has, mostly thanks to modern dentistry and health care, sanitation and all those goods n services that civilizations brings.
We have also gone from not knowing if there were still stone age level cultures to knowing where they are and creating boundaries around them.
and we’ve explored more space, from leaving our galaxy to probing other planets and landing on our moon, with several nations participating.
than we have the ocean of our world, that we all breath the same air drink the same water and have the same biological needs
yet, we continue to feel entitled to treat everything and everyone else as trash; and that is not what right mean, or else they really are not worth the paper printed or breath utterance.
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Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1948
June 1, 1938
The world’s first super hero, Superman, appeared in the first issue of the Action Comics series of comic books.
Vernon arrived at Parchman and Gladys and Elvis made the bus trip on several occasions.
Memphis, Tennessee
1949 – 1977
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
June 1, 1955
Patsy Cline recorded “A Church, A Courtroom And Then Goodbye” at her first recording session. It was the first of her 51 sides over a two-year period for Four Star Records.
On a Playbill with Ferlin Huskey, Martha Carson, The Carlisles, J.E. & Maxine Brown, Onie Wheeler and Al Rogers; Elvis performed at the High School Auditorium, Guymon, Oklahoma.
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