southern records

This was the same year the slogan "We're here, We're queer, Get used to it" was everywhere. It seemed like "tolerance" was the aspiration of queer politics.

Queer may be a consumer focus group, but it's also more; love & sex, and it's always going to be messy and in your face.

While tolerance is necessary, being tolerated is not my ultimate political goal. I want a world where parents say "Hurray, we have a queer child - how lucky we are!"

Queers aren't going to line up and say "Thank you for letting us own property, and vote, and marry [sic], and serve in the military like 'normal' people...thank you for letting another year go by without putting us back into concentration camps." We're going to live our lives without permission from anyone. We are your children, and we're going to fuck each other.

In a big dumb Republican country, I feel the need to point out that this song is not about the age of consent, although there's probably a good song to be written about that (or did Bronski Beat do that already?).