Queer Kid of Color

We all love Marz. He’s the youngest of all the bloggers and he got the LGBT community a win as Best Teen Blog.

What are some of your hobbies?
Um, writing. I love clothes shopping, and that’s why I’m always low on funds. I like partaking in cultural things, like museum exhibits and jazz concerts. But, I haven’t been doing much of that lately. Right now my main hobby is writing. I walk around Philadelphia with this composition book and I’ll just think of a cool line or something and have to jot it down, so I don’t forget it. Or I’ll just think of a poem, or a paragraph it will just flow out. I have to stop shopping momentarily, because I have a slew of birthdays and the holidays coming up, but I’m trying to change up my style, because I feel I’m boxing myself in fashionably.

What are some of the blogs you read?
You’re trying to get me cursed out if I don’t mention someone. Everyday, I look at In the Mix with Trent and Keith Boykin. About three times a week I see if Clay Cane has written anything new. Although you gotta stay up on clay because he writes some hot stuff and then it’s missing when you go back. Those are the mainstays, it seems that a lot of the other black gay bloggers are posting infrequently right now. It’s sort of what happens, I’ve noticed that the seasons change and everyone changes with how much they post. but once the winter hits there will be tons of posts, and new bloggers to meet. I enjoy meeting the new bloggers, and seeing who will stay and who won’t. But besides that Omar, Charles X , D-Place, Bobby Brown Jr. Rodney, Ms. Pam, Afrodyke, Ladynay, Motivated Ho, LJ, I can’t name everyone. I hope no one gets mad. But my favorite blog I would have to say is Smiling on the DL, which transitioned to the unconquerable Soul. His blog always makes me smile and there is just so much growth that he expresses.

What do you want to study in college?
Right now, I want to study a myriad of things. But basically about sex and sexuality. I don’t have everything coordinated right now, and it’s driving my mother and father insane. But I want to be a sexpert or sex therapist or something in that field.

What about a career in writing?
I’m currently working on a novel. It’s still in the outlining period because I had to rework some things out. It’s in the very early phases. I’m still on the first chapter. Before you ask, so far, it’s about gay teens of color in Philadelphia. I want to portray real gay teens and not what’s in media, or what’s in other gay teen fiction. I have read a lot of gay teen fiction and I’ve only come across one character in Jess Mowry’s book Babylon Boyz that I think is a real example of a gay teen in the inner city. Although the book wasn’t solely about him, because he was a supporting character. Most books with gay teens has the boys sad and grappling with who they are, and although that is a reality that a lot of gay people face. I want to show different facets then the one sided, boy-who-is-afraid-to-go-to-the-GSA-meeting-finally-goes-and realizes-that-the-football-team-leader-is-there, type book.

When is your date with queer kid of color?
How unprofessional? Marz and the Queer Kid of color will go on a date sometime next year. I have a busy schedule and I’m trying to get all my applications, scholarships, grades, and everything else together. It will probably be sometime next year in the spring, late spring. Because hopefully I’ll get into NYU, and I’ll be in NEW YORK more frequently.