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The Appeal has a searing new feature called "What's Bothering Michael Petrelis Now?," filling readers in on what's pissing off San Francisco's most important always-present/entertaining queer activist. This time around, Petrelis had a bone to pick with the 2009 Homosexual Pride Guide, which, we hear, is heavy on the Anglo-Saxon love.
Check it:
Pick up a copy of the "official magazine of InterPride 2009" littering many San Francisco and other cities' watering holes, then get a good pair of strong sunglasses to wear while reading it. It's so white, the glare may blind LGBT readers.
But wait, it gets better. Petrelis breaks down the magazine's photos by race. This year's guide to Poofdom Pride goes something like this: 68 images featuring white folks; 5 pictures of a very black President Obama; 1 photo of dead, gay, black man James Baldwin; 1 man of questionable Hispanic heritage; and 0 images of Asian Americans, Native Americans, Transgender people (what, no Donna Sachet? Impossible), Ivory Coast natives, Samoans or Andorrans (or Andorians, for that matter.)
Silliness aside, he does have a point, doesn't he?
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Most important queer activist? Isn't this the same guy who was (is?) an AIDS denialist with Act Up SF and worked with Republican thugs to kill the Ryan White Care Act? Who also helped convince S. African President Mbecki that HIV was not the cause of AIDS which led to a ban on 'toxic' AIDS meds in South Africa by Mbecki?
I could be wrong, but that's the same guy, isn't it?
He'll totally freak when he sees the Guardian Queer Issue tomorrow. It's all questioning two-spirits.
(I wish!)
@Wagnerian: kind of: http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/news/cbcivilwar.htm
How does he know none of the pictures are of the transgendered?
Barack Obama is gay?
this is a terrible injustice to catamites everywhere.
Wait, transgender is an ethnicity now?
Love this picture.
Arnold is looking very ready for Pride Weekend!
The picture ratio sounds about the same as the SkyMall racial collage.
White people ARE gay.
So that's 68 pictures of people. Who cares what color they are?
Not being a frequenter of gay bars I haven't seen these guides, but I've since noticed that most all of the banners and bus ads advertising Pride around town have people of color on them. (FWIW)
racism, or "just-my-preference!!" as some people call it, is pretty common in the gay community. just peruse the classifieds. "white people ONLY" or "asians ONLY" is extremely common.
I gave up being gay AND Asian/Latino/African in 1999. It was the last time I bought a Prince album and partied on a rooftop in Tele Hill, or is that now called something else?
NEONB - North East of North Beach.