Like queer people deserve to feel special. I think it is a very savvy political technique to ensure our rights, but queer people deserve to do more than just coexist with each other. And I think that that is a very virtuous aim. Like we just want to be treated the same. It’s been oriented around this idea that, you know, straight people just need to coexist with us.
So I think for a long time advocacy around LGBTQ+ rights has kind of been oriented around this idea of tolerance. Queer and Trans people have always been treated as this kind of malignant, other, these depraved groups of people. KC HOARD: I think so much of conversations about, I’m speaking broadly here, but like diversity, but, you know, I think specifically when it comes to and trans people, culturally we’re freaks. Can you talk a little bit about the flourishing idea?
As a South Asian who grew up in Calgary, one of the few people who identified as other, going to gay bars with my gay friends I found really freeing and safe. It’s kind of a hard thing to capture and you know, one answer and I definitely had a lot of problems trying to capture the importance of these buildings in my long story.ĪNGELA MISRI: The word you said in that early on is a place for you to flourish. These are the places where our community survived together in our darkest hours, in the eighties and nineties during the aids crisis in the fifties and sixties during, you know, a time where it was legal or barely legal to be a homosexual. The thing about these gay bars is they are political institutions. It really does wonders for personal development and also community building. I mean, I won’t give you my whole tragic backstory, but I definitely grew up in an environment like a lot of people where there weren’t a lot of people who were like me, just the environment of being in a gay bar, being in a place or, you know, that everybody is probably from the same community of you and at the very least is going to be affirming of you. I mean, when I was coming-of-age as a young person, these bars were really where I felt like I could flourish, where I felt like I was part of something for the first time. What I can tell you is how vital they were for me personally. KC HOARD: I guess I’ll start off by saying, I don’t pretend to speak for all people. SHEENA ROSSITER: Let’s check out your conversation with KC Hoard.ĪNGELA MISRI: Can you explain how important gay bars are to the queer community? His work has appeared in The Washington Post, HuffPost, Adweek, and more. SHEENA ROSSITER: This week we’ll hear from writer KC Hoard, whose work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Broadview Magazine, CBC Arts, and Xtra.ĪNGELA MISRI: And then we’ll hear from Tim Singleton, who is an artist, designer and illustrator from Toronto. But it’s especially hard for gay bars, which have acted as safe spaces for the queer community for decades, and we’ll hear why. These are the places where our community survived together in our darkest hours in the eighties and nineties, during the AIDS crisis in the fifties and sixties during, you know, a time where it was legal or barely legal to be a homosexual.ĪNGELA MISRI: The pandemic has made for difficult times for bars and nightclubs, many of which have had to shutter their doors. KC HOARD: The thing about these gay bars is they are political institutions. SHEENA ROSSITER: Welcome to the deep dive from The Walrus, a weekly podcast that takes a deeper look into the happenings at The Walrus I’m Sheena Rossiter.ĪNGELA MISRI: And I’m Angela Misri. The Walrus Wins Gold at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards.Objectivity Is a Privilege Afforded to White Journalists.It’s a Drag: Many Gay Bars Are Closing, But We Can Still Save Them.Additional music are licensed versions of “Stay Cool” by Loops Lab, and “Podcast Intro” by InPlus Music. Your answer will not be displayed immediately.The music for this episode is a licensed version of “This Podcast Theme” by InPlus Music. Your answer will be published for anyone to see and rate. The bar was called "The Blue Oyster" and the song was a mexican dance song called "La Bimbo" In film, a orchestrated version was played, tuned especially for making some hilarious sensation (now, that song are a homosexual hymn in some places of Spain and Southamerica, but in a faked way). a spanish pop song from 1975, called "Bailemos el Bimbo". The Blue Oyster, and the music was big band
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