Editorial Opinion -July, 2002 End of the Rainbow
The man who invented the rainbow flag considers himself the Betsy Ross of the gay movement; I like to think of him more as the Holly Hobbie of it. The rainbow flag/bumpersticker/windsock aesthetic--the neighborhood covenants with which all homosexual citizens must comply--is only partly about rainbows. It's mostly about insecurity, with 30 years worth of accumulated tchotchkes seeming to argue that being gay is a whole lot like being a fifth-grade school boy. So much purple, so much pink, so much My Pretty Pony and Rain-bow Brite. To step into a gay bookstore--depending on how many bookish men were in charge versus how many recipe-sharing leathermen--was always like stepping into a cross between the student-council spirit store and a stage set for Godspell.
How many lesbian mystery novels can feature a cat? How many self-help books does one messed up teenager need? How many "Nobody Knows I'm Gay" T-shirts can the gay market possibly absorb? We don't really need this stuff anymore--the T-shirts, the self-help books, the cats. We've moved on. The hardest thing about being accepted by the rest of the world is that we can no longer identify with our windsocks; we cannot take refuge in our bawdy refrigerator magnets. Gays and lesbians have come to realize that The Wizard of Oz is increasingly useless as both theology and security blanket. When you get over the rainbow, you get over the rainbow.
Gay editorial Archives Toronto Whorlpool Magazine.2001
Editorial - Eminem's Fag Jag, April 5-21, 2001
Editorial - Heterosexual Family Pride Day, May 26-June 25, 2001
Editorial - Is Gay Cloning Next? December 1, 2001
Editorial - Online Gay Shoppers January 1, 2002
Editorial - Jerry Fawell takes a step forward February 1, 2002Gay editorial Archives - Toronto Digital Queeries 2002 -
Editorial - Is Gay Pride Day over?
Editorial - Straights in Toronto Gay Bars
Editorial - End of the Rainbow
Editorial - Public Sex
Editorial - Profiting from loneliness
Editorial - Integrity in Toronto gay publications
Editorial - Conformity of the urban homosexual lifestyle
Editorial - Primetimers
Editorial - You know your a Torontonian when..
Editorial - Toronto lgbt community silent on war with Iraq.
Editorial - Whatever happened to Queer Activism in Toronto?
Editorial - The flimsy Case against gay marriage
Editorial - Pride week Toronto 2003
Editorial - Time to pull the plug
Editorial - Toronto has two gay villages!
Editorial - The Ridiculousness of Recruiting
Editorial - Homeless gay youth in Toronto
Editorial - Appearance is everything
Editorial - Gay Marriage - The Debate
Editorial - Who cares if gays marry?
Editorial - Why Toronto's gay village is dying
Editorial - Please be yourself- as long as who are your suits me
Editorial - Freedom to chose gay marriage or not?
Editorial - Exploring the Dyke [or Queeriosity]
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