20231009 Off to Taiwan to learn about non-Western Gay culture. Trans extremism is collapsing. Interesting Vietnamese artist.
Also, speaking up at a history conference.
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Off to Taiwan to learn about Gay life in a non-Western nation.
I will be issuing a news letter the first week in November. I hope to start showcasing artists again.
I am going to be visiting the temple of the Gay God in Taipei, Taiwan.
At the temples I am going to be offering prayers for the safety of the Dallas Gay community. You write your prayer on joss paper and it is burned to send your prayer off to God.
Going to visit the Temple of the Gay God Tu’er
I want to visit the temples in Taipei. They are very interesting.
Of course I will be visiting the Temple of Tu’er the Gay God, also known as the Rabbit God. I am going to do a prayer for the Dallas Gay community. I am going to make the homophobia of Dallas known internationally. Or at least try.
This was a video about Tu’er visiting a restaurant worker and help the worker accept being Gay. It is really an interesting story. It has 3.5 million views so far over the last three years. Almost everyone who watches it, love it.
For background information go to this Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/596788864540581
This article interviews the producer of the video, Andrew Thomas Huang.
https://www.goldthread2.com/identity/kiss-of-the-rabbit-god-andrew-thomas-huang/article/3016195
Interesting Vietnamese Artist
https://www.facebook.com/zxwe01
https://www.instagram.com/xuanquyenstudio
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=919882252808126&set=a.574145857381769
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3317530808336366&set=a.361768217245988
Very busy reporting on local anti-Gay campaigns in Dallas
Collapse of excesses of the trans extremists and gender theorists is fast approaching.
From The Guardian, left-wing publication, about the book “Time to Think,” about the collapse of Tavistock. “It reads like a dystopian novel.” It is a horror story being brought to the public’s attention. Further, The Guardian, is realizing it is time to jump ship from the gender ideologs.
This is going to be like Recovered Memory, something that was realized to be pseudoscience and disastrous. Unlike other disastrous things that psychology has done in the past, there will be people physically harmed by surgeries and hormones and visibly horrible reminders of the excesses of this movement.
It will be harmful to trans people since they will find legitimate help stigmatized and possibly not available.
Visibility of Lesbians and Gays in history at the East Texas Historical Association.
I was at the East Texas Historical Society and their was a presentation of the life of Kathleen Blackshear. She retired with a woman to her home where they lived together until they needed hospital care. On the left below is a suit she had made for herself when she was a reporter for the paper in the local paper in the 1920s. The right was her portrait when she was an instructor at the Chicago Institute of Art.
I kept on waiting for the word “Lesbian” to be mentioned. It wasn’t, so I brought it up. The response was that no written record could be found to confirm that she was a Lesbian. Being that she was born in 1897 and died in 1988, she was likely very careful to make sure there were no records, and family members have a habit of burning records of aunts and uncles to “protect” their reputations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Blackshear
I pointed this out, and I said that I think as historians we can draw conclusions, which in this case is fairly obvious, based on her retiring and living with her lover.
When I arrived home, I realize that the standard of evidence being use to decide whether to call Blackshear a Lesbian was that of a criminal trial. Being a Lesbian isn’t a crime, we don’t have to have enough evidence to “convict.”
The interesting thing was that none of Blackshear’s art made reference to the existence of Lesbians. She painted African Americans and helped launch the careers of African Americans, and then later moved into abstract art, but she didn’t do any art related to Lesbians. There was art at that time which did make reference to the existence of Lesbians.
The person who was making this presentation has been very helpful to me, and is a really nice person. She did include a lot of information in the presentation so that the viewer would be able to conclude that Blackshear was a Lesbian.
Yet, unconsciously, the presentation had a point of view of Blackshear’s life which also did an erasure.
For example, like many Lesbians and Gays, she had to leave her rural Texas home to find a place to exist as a Lesbian, which was in Chicago. There is the whole ongoing pattern of Lesbians and Gays migrating from rural, to towns, to mid-size cities, to major cities with Gayborhoods.
By not explicitly acknowledging Blackshear was a Lesbian her life wasn’t viewed through that lens. Yes, she moved to Chicago for her job, but it would simultaneously allow her to be in an urban environment where she would have personal freedom.
Why Blackshear had no art related to being Lesbian wasn’t a question that was asked, except by me at the end.
Again, the presenter is a really good person.
I think as a scholar you have to speak out in all situations where there is a deficiency relating to Lesbian and Gay history, and it likely it will be the most difficult when it is someone you like.
r/gaytransguys
Lying seems to be the choice.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/172tjfa/stealth_and_guy_talk/
Yes instead of trying hard to please everyone, but I think at least I should at least please ourselves. I love it, I think speaking up brings up a little bit of our creativity and light to this world.