Tim Wise on Racism, Trump, White Privilege (2017)

Notes on Adorning “Otherness”

Picture: By The Atlantic Disfactor art: By Jabram Allen According to David Shariatmadari off the Guardian “We think we know what a gay person sounds like. But there are caveats to the cliche — and ‘voice-shaming’ tells us a lot more about our culture than it does about the person speaking” According to Shariatmadari; “the research says probably not. There’s mountains of evidence to suggest we adapt our speech to more closely resemble that of people we identify with. The particular sounds a group of speakers makes use of are arbitrary. They acquire meaning and recognizability only through association. The fact that these changes are usually unconscious is well documented. But, linguistically speaking, sounding gay is really no different from sounding street, sounding posh or sounding like a bro”. In other words, groups develop, practice and telegraph those actions that set them apart from other groups so that they may be intentionally recognized by those that don’t be...

SFGMC Current Tour

The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus (SFGMC) is the world's first openly gay chorus, one of the world's largest male choruses [1] and the group most often credited with creating the LGBT choral movement. [2] The chorus was founded by gay music pioneer Jon Reed Sims . Despite popular misconceptions, the group does not require that members identify as gay or bisexual. The eligibility requirements for SFGMC are to be at least 18 years of age, to self identify as a man, and to pass the audition process defined by the Artistic Director. Today, with a membership of over 300 voices , the SFGMC continues to present a wide range of music and perform for many different kinds of audiences. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Currently the Chorus is attempting to raise money for its members to engage in its Southern Concert Tour , which is at this point in time incredibly important to maintaining the freedom not just of LGBTQ individuals and communities, but all our comm...

What Got Harvey Killed

What Really Got Harvey Killed By Jab Raven Allen 12/9/2018 Harvey Milk: college, Navy, Stock Analyst — move to San Francisco and engaged in open homosexual relationship. Major socio-political and economic move was eliminating Coors Beer from various bars in San Francisco. His Next move of this nature was helping to make the concept of district elections a reality. Each district elected their own Supervisors ( socio-economics, group politics and recuperative Spaces) He ran for political office in 1973 (Tokenism and political power), and at 47 years old was elected to Board of Supervisors. Despite the outrage that my statement may cause; Harvey’s election was a contradiction in terms; ”gay men did not possess a political voice”, yet they were white males. What were gay white males not recognizing that caused them to issue this statement as a political belief. The adorning of “otherness” and the problem that they posed as a “splinter group”. As a splinter group...

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