Open Letter To Gays In Puerto Vallarta - Signed "The Other Gays"
Dear Gays Partying in Mexico,
I want you to know we aren’t dragging you or cackling at that sinking party boat because we’re jealous (OK, maybe just a little). It’s not just the colonizer vibes of locals selling their health with a smile for your margarita. These giggles are because we understand all too well why you’re on that boat to begin with. The dark impulses our community suffers so much to control: the pursuit of pleasure at the expense of spirit, of meth binges and steroid heart attacks, of clubs asking for two forms of ID to Black folx, of casual, deadly transphobia, of gentrification. You clacking that obnoxious fan at a circuit party during a pandemic is systemic homophobia at work, the failure of our schools for not teaching you AIDS history. It’s a confirmation that our worship of the sun-kissed Adonis, that flesh-industrial complex of parties and porn has always hidden a culture of nihilism and death. These are nervous giggles because you embody the most tedious, vapid and scary parts of us, forcing us to use shame as a weapon and knowing we’ll need to unpack yours for years. Thanks for giving us homework when we have so much else on our plate. Don’t get me wrong, we also laughed at you because you look like a f*cking clowns.
Sincerely
The Other Gays
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | January 6, 2021 9:59 PM
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He seems pretty annoyingly woke and self-righteous.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 5, 2021 12:29 AM
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These woke and self-righteous gays are becoming quite tedious and very tiresome.
If they would only admit what is painfully obvious to everyone else; much if not all this angst and anger derives from fact sort of gays that do attend these sort of events won't give them the time of day.
If it wasn't covid-19 these poor unfortunate souls would find something else to moan about.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 5, 2021 12:39 AM
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"clubs asking for two forms of ID to Black folx, of casual, deadly transphobia..."
Folx and deadly transphobia. Very dramatic. Deadly dramatic....
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 5, 2021 12:54 AM
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It’s going to be four years of this shit.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 5, 2021 1:00 AM
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[quote]These woke and self-righteous gays are becoming quite tedious and very tiresome.
They make me want to vote Republican forever and ever snd ever.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 5, 2021 1:00 AM
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It's the small cocks v. the big cocks. Always has been.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 5, 2021 1:01 AM
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He's Puerto Rican. In my experience that means big cock, R8.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 5, 2021 1:03 AM
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BLOOP?
I didn't realize we're in 2011.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 5, 2021 1:12 AM
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hes not wrong,but its old news. They did the same shit when aids was raging. All just a little bit of history repeating.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 5, 2021 1:13 AM
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Note to self: refrain from radiating colonizer vibes when paying for beverages.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 5, 2021 10:36 AM
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Oh the irony of this self important cunt thinking he speaks for anyone other than himself
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 5, 2021 3:16 PM
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[quote]clubs asking for two forms of ID to Black folx
Please. It's a club, they're not opening a bank account.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 6, 2021 5:02 PM
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Shame works.
I'm career as a musician has been completely derailed, possibly forever, because of covid. assholes like this make it only worse
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 6, 2021 5:05 PM
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I'm all for dragging the PV queens, but this gurl is Roxane Gay-level EXHAUSTED.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 6, 2021 5:08 PM
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How is this "woke?" This is simply not wanting this stupid pandemic to go on any longer than it needs to because people are being selfish and irresponsible. This isn't a political issue. It's a human issue. It's not that hard to wear a mask and stay the fuck home unless you have to go get food or pick up supplies.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 6, 2021 5:18 PM
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“I’m tired of your scraps. Tired you expect Queers to be grateful for your scraps. Tired of asking for pronouns when other languages gave us nouns, verbs and names centuries ago. Tired of voting for our love to be legal and our murders illegal, when your government owes us healthcare and an HIV vaccine. Tired of your media renting our Black and Brown rhythms, fashion and slang, then paying us with bland white gays in a Hallmark movie. Tired of congratulating straight men for wearing dresses in magazines when Black Trans deserve the cover. Tired same-sex kisses and gay-bait stunts still make headlines, while social media bans us for going against your “community guidelines.“ Tired we beg for your “inclusion” when what I really want is my neighborhood leather bar to reopen. Tired of decades-old scraps repackaged as “visibility.” Scraps are for famine. We are not starving. Queers have feasts in our history and banquets in our closet. Keep your f*cking scraps.”
-Leo Herrera 12.16.20
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 6, 2021 5:20 PM
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Don't these "Other Gays" prefer to be called 'Queer' anyway, because 'Gay' (to them) only encompasses the type of guys who went to PV?
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | January 6, 2021 9:26 PM
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Why is “folx “ a thing—“folks” is perfectly fine and nongendered. I blame “Latino.”
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | January 6, 2021 9:59 PM
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