tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122973.post6915022698110433501..comments2024-02-08T05:04:18.484-08:00Comments on J'S THEATER: Rambles + "Commander Guy"John Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073378940347627766noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122973.post-30131293276485097172007-05-03T22:46:00.000-07:002007-05-03T22:46:00.000-07:00France: "Ségo, Sarko" I love it. I will say this ...France: "Ségo, Sarko" I love it. I will say this until I fall asleep tonight. It sounds like one of Celestial Teas’ exotic blends. Infectious.<BR/><BR/>For sometime I have had the feeling that Sarko is inevitable. The economy is on every Frenchman's mind, and what happens to the coloured folk will not come into play at all. Socialist systems are normally closed shops. A colleague said at a lunch one day, “Most people think with their stomachs and not with their heads.”<BR/><BR/>Jamaica: The situation is really tough for me to handle. When I first heard stories like this at the Jamaican/French fusion bistro I used to work at in NYC ten years ago, I was still figuring out how to negotiate my own sexuality (does this practice ever end?). It was more about dealing with the people who were close to me (all West Indian or Latino) and their “new opinions” about who I was and why I loved men, than any act of violence towards me per se. It did not take me long to figure out that my multi-miniature coming out experiences over jerked chicken and brioche were neither as pleasant an experience as those depicted by several proselytizers of gender discourses hovering around me, nor the hip young white men of Chelsea who seemed to transition “out” with parents they could talk to on a first name basis. <BR/><BR/>In many ways I was horrified by what I used to hear concerning the stoning, burning and maiming of young men and women. Some instances were recited by my boss and late night taxi drivers as if they were read straight from a newspaper. <BR/><BR/>Ironically, I also had experiences that showed me there were same sex signals being communicated right underneath the nose of the most hateful and homophobic. And sometimes, the homophobe was included. <BR/><BR/>As tragic and horrible as this latest incident is, I still believe there is a narrative missing concerning same sex attraction and relationships in Jamaica, not to mention Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. But that does not negate the fact that the violence and persecution is very real – such acts by the state, or an “indifferent” state in the face of the mob, build the cocoon of secrecy that governs how people act on their desire. I just wonder if there are rules that transverse the public and private sphere, giving a well grown and common shade to those that delight in the love of a man or woman. I believe there are and we are just no attuned to them. Or, at least I am not . . . fullyLittlemilkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08875308841224185781noreply@blogger.com