Column: What I want Dave Chappelle to understand about the color of queerness
LA TimesThere are queer people in Selma, Ala. You know, in all of the years I’ve visited, watched documentaries and followed news coverage of civil rights activists crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in observance of Bloody Sunday, it had never occurred to me that some of the foot soldiers in 1965 were queer. It wasn’t until I watched screeners from season 2 of the Emmy-nominated reality TV show “We’re Here” that I became aware of some of the ways I subconsciously contribute to my own queer erasure. In fact, it wasn’t until seeing the “Selma” episode of the HBO series — which begins its second season on Monday in time for National Coming Out Day — that I became aware of how much I had accepted the lack of intersectionality in the retelling of our times. Speaking of which, when “don’t ask, don’t tell” was forcing queer people out of the military, robbing them of their careers, no group was hurt more by this policy than Black women. During the “Selma” episode of “We’re Here,” one of the hosts, Bob the Drag Queen, broke down in tears as he spoke with Bloody Sunday survivors.
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