“That Faggot Stuff” (PS to Bruno Review)
While GLAAD is not happy with the portrayal of gays in the movie Bruno, we have some real world examples of homophobia, and the degree to which any public display is to much for many homophobes.
EL PASO — Two gay men kissed at a Chico’s Tacos restaurant, prompting guards to eject them and a police officer to endorse their ouster. . In all, five men were ordered to leave the restaurant. They say they were forced out by homophobic guards.
“It was a simple kiss on the lips,” said Carlos Diaz de Leon, a gay man who was part of the group. . De Leon quoted one of the guards as saying he didn’t allow “that faggot stuff” in the restaurant.
One the one hand, the over the top behavior of Bruno can be called into question, but a simple kiss? A kiss in a city that passed a nondiscrimination ordinance in 2003? Someone must have forgot to tell the security guards and the police about that.
The folks at GLAAD are well intentioned, and I totally agree that we need more positive portrayals of Gays in the media. But everyone is missing the point if they think that homophobia is about how we act. It is about the very fact that we exist at all. To miss this point is to be displaying our own internalized homophobia.
For more information:
http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2009/07/kissing-at-texas-chicos-tacos-deemed.html
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_12814956?source=most_emailed
http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=4174&MediaType=1&Category=26
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