We’re not all the same and, frankly, it takes a whole variety of queer folks to make our case. Okay?"Īnd this is something both MGs and RGs should remember. You very clearly ordered the gay size."Īfter dropping a not particularly biting insult, Marshalls says "I’m not you, Lionel.
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"Look, Marshall, you can pretend you’re an ’I’ or bi or exploring or discovering or whatever you want to call it. You want Josiah Wertheimer to call you a fag."īut Lionel doesn’t back down. You make being gay something no one would ever want to be. Marshall isn’t amused and says "You ruin it for gay people, Lionel. Lionel replies he acts the way he does because "it’s funny," at which point two jocky guys come around the corner and call them "fags." Lionel isn’t the least bit intimidated and says "You want this sh*t so bad, you dream about it Josiah." Yes, sexual orientation need not always be central to one’s identity, but sometimes it has to be. They fail to credit, oh, say, the Stonewall Rebellion to the drag queens who fought back in the first place. And it’s also probably Lionel that is organizing the GLBTA group in the first place. Marshall is forgetting that it was Lionel who wanted to increase gay visibility with the purple flowers, an idea with which Marshall ultimately agreed. Every single word that comes out of your mouth is about sex or asses." Sick of Lionel’s comments, Marshall says "Would you shut up for once, Lionel f***ing Trane. Marshall tries to ignore the comment, but a group of roughhousing boys prompts Lionel to say "Don’t let them catch you checking them out or you might end in a gangbang you won’t soon forget." Later Marshall is changing in the lockerroom when Lionel arrives and snarkily observes how previously Marshall had been a revolutionary with his purple flowers, but now he’s all "I" for independent. Turns out Courtney is going to be for all sorts of things.
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Or … people."Ĭlearly, Marshall hasn’t quite decided just where he fits in while Lionel looks less than thrilled with the idea. Making it this narrow thing marginalizes us. Marshall even wants to add a new letter - I - for "Independents." That would be those who don’t want to broadcast who they are sleeping with because it doesn’t "…need to be some kind of headline.
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He also reminds Lionel that since they are kids, not everyone has it all figured out and some are even questioning. Marshall quite reasonably suggests that since only eight kids out of the whole school turned out for the club, maybe Lionel shouldn’t be quite so exclusionary. This is the worst kind of RG behavior that is needlessly confrontational and off-putting. When Courtney asks about adding something to represent the straight allies like herself, Lionel goes all bitchy queen on her and says she should start a group called Frenemas which he explains is a friend you can call to come over and help clean you out before a big date.Īnd I, along with the other kids, gag. Since he’s the RG, naturally Lionel is leading the group and he wants to call it the Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Transgender Association which he pronounces Glib-ta. So our confrontation between MG and RG starts in a high school classroom where Lionel and a small group of other students are apparently just forming a GLBT alliance. Meanwhile, your Radical Gay (RG) does see everything through a prism of "gay" and feels it’s perfectly fine to be confrontational and "in your face" in our quest for equality. While your more Mainstream Gay (MG) doesn’t have a problem being gay and wants equality, he doesn’t view his sexual orientation as being central to his identity and doesn’t feel the need to advertise the gender of the person he’s sleeping with. Namely, am I really gay? And what kind of gay guy do I want to be? In this case, it’s Mainstream Gay vs Radical Gay with Marshall as Mainstream and Lionel as Radical.
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This week’s episode of United States of Tara was all about the rather unique issues faced by some gay boys as they come to terms with their sexuality.