Status Updates From Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

yall im trying so hard to finish this but i really am tuning in and out of the audiobook as it’s playing like this man just yaps and not in the way i was hoping

"A drag queen - a good drag queen - is not there to mock women, but to transcend the limitations of masculinity."

"The gay roots of pop culture is an embattled terrain of making the people happy and being readily dismissed as insipid."

"Now drag is everyone's escapism - perhaps more like it used to be. Camp is the stuff of wedding reception. Doing the YMCA is a first-world coping mechanism. Over-identifying with the diva vocals of spurned women is no longer the sole prerogative of gay men."

"I texted him a link to a 1987 essay by Leo Bersani, 'Is the Rectum a Grave?' He texted back: Oooh. Don't tell me how it ends." 🤣

On 'queer community': "We hear the word 'community' all the time. Often it sounds like wishful thinking. Queer community is just as vague - just piling a confusing identity onto an elusive concept. Maybe 'community', as Famous says, excludes inherently. At the word 'community', both of us are prone to hear 'clique'."