Queer Kid of Color

“I’m just thinking about some of the horrid monikers we’ve encountered on the ‘Net: ‘The Old Dyke.’ ‘The Angry Fag.’ ‘Queer Kid Of Color’. “Faggoty-Ass Faggot.” Straight people see and hear these vulgar identifiers. What do they make of them? Do they feel they have permission to use them, too? What also occurs to me is that these names don’t just speak to a shameful feeling about one’s gender and/or sexuality; they speak to an obsession with it! “

Um, ok.

link: http://www.whosoever.org/v13i3/internal.shtml

The message:

(But not really)

The new Advocate cover seems to suggest so.

Another young Black transgender female was victim to a hate crime last Friday. But unlike the support for marriage equality, you won’t find people protesting about this nationwide, or organizing for better hate crime legislation. It really is a pity. Just as the death of Duanna Johnson was ignored, so will this one. It’ll appear in a few blogs, maybe in The Advocate (highly doubt it) , and then it will be forgotten.

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SYRACUSE, NY – Dwight R. DeLee shot and killed Moses “Teish” Cannon with a .22-caliber rifle Friday night because he didn’t like that Cannon was openly gay, Syracuse police said.

Cannon, 22, and his brother, Mark Cannon, 18, both of 404 Arthur St., were shot as they sat in a car parked in front of 411 Seymour St., where they had been invited to a party. The bullet grazed the left arm of Mark Cannon, who was in the driver’s seat, and hit Moses Cannon in the chest, police said.

Police have charged DeLee, 20, of 420 Gifford St., with second-degree murder. DeLee went into the home at 411 Seymour St. to get the rifle after guests at the party started “making profane and vulgar comments in regards to the sexual preference of our two victims,” police Chief Gary Miguel said.

“There was no previous argument between these individuals, there was no previous fight, there was no bad blood,” Miguel said. “Our suspect took a rifle and shot and killed this person, also wounding his brother, for the sole reason he didn’t care for the sexual preference of our victim. Isn’t that sad? Isn’t that a sad situation that that’s the sole reason why?

“I talk to you about this atmosphere of violence and that certain individuals believe that violence is the answer no matter what, and here’s just another example,” Miguel said.

Cannon’s family said his death should be treated as a hate crime. Miguel said it’s up to the District Attorney’s office to decide if it’s a hate crime.

Police started searching for DeLee after interviewing witnesses. He was located at 2 a.m. Sunday at a residence in Liverpool, police said.

Miguel said there’s no indication the Cannons were lured to the party so they could be assaulted. “The person who called (to invite them to the party) is a friend,” Miguel said.

Link: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/syracuse_man_was_killed_for_be.html
Link 2: http://brooklynboyblues.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-murder-of-duanna-johnson.html

Seriously, The Advocate couldn’t find any Black gay couples at all?

The Bloggers’ Book Club
I want to stand up and applaud Darius. I don’t know how many blogs this guy runs, but he seems to be the most popular person out in the blogosphere right now. He enthuses me in some ironic way. His latest endeavor is an amazing collaborative between him and many other bloggers. It’s a book club that brings together the blogosphere through reading. I think it’s an amazing concept!

Check it out here: The Bloggers’ Book Club

Get Your Ass Out & Vote
The most frequently asked question I’ve gotten these past couple of weeks is who am I voting for. I finally chose – after some rather rigorous research – my candidate. I mailed out my absentee ballot a few days ago and have my fingers crossed for my candidate. But I won’t be telling you who I voted for! Not currently, anyways.

Seriously -

Read up on your candidate. CHOOSE WISELY. Don’t feed off of sound bites, headlines, polls, and what your friends tell you. Vote because you’re IN THE KNOW.

Hope you’re having a great weekend!

“Clay this is some bs. Miss Patrik Ian knows you would rather have interview…and access to STARS than report FACTS. No shade but it is very funny that Patrik and Logo are sending interviews and tidbits to CLAY CANE and DARION and QUEER KID OF COLOR. Not Rod 2.0. Y’all have cute little blogs and stuff and Clay writes for HX but the difference is night and day.”
 

-an anonymous comment on claycane.net

“I was entertaining a chick wit a dick. Does that count as a female? She looks fine as brown gravy and could pass for a female too! I mean, she fooled me! After the date, she told me there was something important I should know. I had her in my car and she just grabbed my hand. She held it for a minute. Silence. She moved it and placed it on her dick and I was done! It was all over. I took a trannie out on a date and liked it!”

- that blogger who can’t figure out whether or not he’s straight. 

link: http://myunfoldingstory.blogspot.com 

before i inserted the new baron. CD celebrity into my drive, i promised myself to give baron. an unbiased review. nevermind the fact that his song “feels like fashion” is the theme song for the christopher street the series’ trailer (a series I’m producing) or that he’s beloved and in serious demand at events. or that his fans and supporters are powerful enough to break me – nope that’s not enough to have me not hate his new cd. before writing this, i calmly said to myself, “steven if you hate the CD, you have to say it. if there’s something you dislike, you must write about it.” truth be told i’ve seen baron. perform two years ago in person at a queer black cinema benefit and though i loved what i saw, charisma and sound with musical artists changes overtime. however, baron. is as charismatic and musically sound today as he was two years ago – and what a relief that is. 

the most uncanning and perhaps unusually good thing about baron.’s CD is its inconsistency. baron. intertwines hip-hop, electro, funk, and house to make a mundane dish of unforgettable music that only socially conscious artists could deliver. his sophomore cd has a refreshing rhythm that is new to ear drums and echoes the sort of sound that music lovers have been hungering for. but who the hell does baron. think he is? how dare he challenge hip-hop’s ugly façade, and try to then change it by bluntly seducing it with electro and funk to produce something even hotter. i’ll tell you who baron is – he’s an understatement. he walks around humbly calling his cd celebrity knowing as well as we do that he’s more than a celebrity; he’s an icon slowly trend setting the allure of music as we’ve come to know it.
 

purchase the CD HERE

add baron. on myspace HERE

why silly queens need to stop hating on my conservatism

There exists some spiteful gays out there who can’t understand politics if it curb them in the ass. However, they take the time to try to debate and engage in conversation and choose to call me defensive when I can articulate my conservative views and cite my sources. You queers need to stop. If you cannot frame a cohesive argument, and mold a thought to save your life, please don’t bother emailing me about how destructive my political thoughts are – this blog is a fraction of my life and you don’t know me personally.  Clearly, people have been trying to get into discussions with me about the political process and it’s annoying when you can attack but can’t counter my arguments.

don’t vote with identity politics

I am not a fan of identity politics. I do not shout for marriage equality and I cannot support Affirmative Action when quotas exist. When I vote I’m not looking at the track record of Barack Obama or John McCain in the People of Color communities, because both of them claim to be post-racial. And I will not be assessing their views on their support of the gays, because neither supports same-sex marriage. I do not vote with my gender and religion in mind because I do not support patriarchal bias and I do not practice religion (Mom, don’t hate me for the latter!). I get annoyed when people tell me they are voting for Obama because he’s Black, because he talks well, or because Oprah loves him (I’m serious!). I hate when people tell me they will not vote for McCain because he’s old (seriously folks lets not be ageist), or because he’s an extension of Bush’s plans. I don’t know whom I’m voting for. The truth is it won’t matter either – Obama will collect the New York electoral votes. Yet still, I cannot let the beatings that Blacks have endure for my right to vote. I’m going to vote critically. I plead with you all to do the same. Fuck polls. Fuck headlines. Fuck what your friends and family members think. Study the policies. Study the issues. Vote with KNOWLEDGE!

have a comment or question email me at  queerkidofcolor @ yahoo . com