All right, this is my manifesto. Hit it!
This song is dedicated to corporate government corruption and all homophobic shitheads everywhere!
I'm not your stepping stone!
Stop texting and start fighting! Turn your boredom into revolution!
I call upon the ghost of Carl Jung to convince everyone to become more psychologically responsible.
All of you, go get a fucking therapist! Look at the hate in your own heart!
The hurt and the homophobia as a racism and fucking stop it!
Stop colluding with a government that oppresses you! Stop it! Get more gay!
Queer Mondays is an LGBT, non-elitist, experimental performance series that happens on the last Monday of the month at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica.
Anyone who has a queer vision can email me.
And I'll be like, yes, you have ten minutes to come to Fabulous Highways and give it a go.
That's kind of what it is. I don't ask too much about what people are going to do.
It's kind of exciting to see what's going to happen.
It's not up to me who gets to perform.
No one has to audition. No one has to prove themselves or fit into some predetermined artistic sensibility.
You know, like what my college fucking told me art is.
So it's all over the map. Really, we've had like big name artists like Tim Miller and Penny Arcade all the way down to like, you know, kids off the street.
There's been video artists and come on and dance and spoken word and there was like a vagina ritual that the Miracle Whips did.
It had shaman ceremonies and, you know, even stand-up comedy, you know.
I'd really like to ideally, you know, foster a new gay renaissance in the city and have a new explosion of gay art.
I think that would be fabulous.
I mean, I personally believe that art is gay or to make art is an intrinsically gay act that you go into your own self, your own mind, your own heart,
and kind of fuck yourself or like, kind of fertilize your own soul in a way and birth ideas.
It's like Plato's idea that gay love breeds children of the mind, like art and philosophy and music and politics.
You know, straight people can do it, but what they're doing is entering into homosexual union with their own soul and creating a child in the form of art.
I have a fetish for gay history!
Oh, it sounds academic, but I'm no expert, I'm a pervert, and I'm proud, so I've created a brand new invention that gave his orgy a charm!
To take us all on a robotic journey through thousands of years of homo-history, are you ready?
Gayist orgy came from... Well, someone told me that there was this guy who was the grandfather of the gay rights movement, Carl Heinrich Ulrichs.
And I was like, what? How come I haven't heard of this? And he's this German lawyer in the 1860s.
You know, I read his work and some of his quotation, in fact a lot of it, is still super relevant.
He grabs me roughly, I coyly push away, and he says, no, it's our dutiful responsibility not to resist, but to follow the dictates of our orientation which was planted in our hearts by the higher force.
That is our sole responsibility. Oh, I've erected like, immediately. I mean, who doesn't want to fuck after hearing it's your duty to the higher force, right?
Yeah, put the cock back into it. I mean, that's the problem with history, is they neuter it. They teach you like, there's nothing below the belt at all, you know?
Like, people don't have genitals or something.
One week before his 24th birthday, Leonardo da Vinci was publicly accused of committing sodomy in the butt with a boy named Jacopo Soltorelli, a 17-year-old who's been a party to many wretched affairs, and consents to please those persons who exact certain evil pleasures from him.
Leonardo was absolved, provided it didn't happen again, but oh no, it didn't happen again.
And what inspired Da Vinci to paint the Last Supper? His boyfriend, the love of his beautiful model, all of those men were inspired to greatness by gay love, and that's really what the show is about.
Yoshi was so taken with the beauty and talent of Zyami that he became Zyami's patron and lover, and from their relationship sprained 500 years of shogunal patronage of no fear.
Can you believe it? It's like, I wish it would happen to me.
My father is a historian, an archeologist, and a college professor, a U.S. history professor.
So history books were all over the apartment, you know, that's what was valued in my family.
My mother also majored in history and then became a psychologist or social worker.
You know, I would go watch my father teach classes.
You know, he had a slide projector, and he was kind of a wacky guy, and he did a whole kind of performance.
And in a way, it comes from him, I'm not too far from the tree.
I mean, more repressed, but he was funny, he was a funny, wacky man.
History was all around me.
Oh no, what's happening?
Stop this disgusting display.
For your information, Mr. McKinnon, there is no such thing as gay history, as you call it.
Don't you even know the dominant viewpoint taught at all universities in the queer theory departments?
Homosexual is a modern, constructed identity.
After homosexuals were invented in 1869, it was early organizing,
and then there was the Stonewall riots in New York City in June of 1969.
Now we have the struggle for gay marriage rights and the right to serve in the military, and that's it.
I hope gay culture gets radical again.
It seems to be moving in a scary, assimilationist direction.
To me, it can be hetero-imitative.
One of the many gifts of gayness is that we're outside the system of like,
get married, have a kid, grow up, die.
We have this wonderful opportunity to discover other meanings of what it means to be alive,
what it means to be human, other purposes.
And the military stuff, great, but oh god, I don't want to go kill people in another country.
That's not what being gay is about at all for me.
I'm about loving men.
I love men.
I want to make love to men.
I don't want to go bomb people for oil.
It's disgusting.
I know there's rights and binational couples.
That's a big fucking problem, you know?
They can't just get married, and gay marriage could help international couples come together,
and that's super important.
So I totally support it.
But I hope that the gay movement gets psychological and goes inward and starts to try to confront
the internalized homophobia that's been shoved down our throats by growing up in a hetero-culture.
It's challenging, but I hope my show is inspiring to people to look at history and look and see
like, oh hey, things weren't always how they are now, and we can gather strength and ideas
from our gay forefathers and our gay brothers.
I would really love for that sort of wave of gay energy that rose up in the late 60s
and through the 70s to come back, and it's kind of gone underground again,
so I think it's time for that, the tidal wave to come.
You gay love on your face, gay love on your eyes and gay love on the camera, gay love, gay love, gay love!
