Shakesthegrounds Rumblings

[CellarDweller]

They are a community, not a family...

 


*gets towel to wipe water off monitor*

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Okay, so I do a search on youtube for gay hillbillies and what did I find? An f'in' video about my home town!

Enjoy! I sure as shit did. 

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oufSE3n3_z8[/youtube]

[injest]

oh man.

I had kinda hoped that far off cities was DIFFERENT than around here...

 

[ifyoucantfixit]

           you folks should put a gate at both ends of the county and charge a fee for people to enter.
Thats like the country Bear jamboree in Disneyland.     


            Bye the bye was that one of your relatives, with Adkins written on the side of the truck?
I loved the tractor on the porch.  That must be where they park the ones they are fraid of getting
stolen.

[Shakesthecoffecan]

           
            Bye the bye was that one of your relatives, with Adkins written on the side of the truck?

Not sure, they were speling it with  "T" and I use a "D" but I am related to some of them.

[Shakesthecoffecan]

I ain't sure what to make of it.

A few years ago I read in a gay newsletter published in Roanoke, Virginia, that my area, Martinsville, would be holding its first known gay event, the Rainbow Bowling League was going to be at Druid Lanes in a tournament. Well, whaddya know about that.

Since then I have witnesses a gay protest, right in front of my office. When the Virginia Museum of Natural History was opened in a gala event that included the Govenor and his wife strolling over my donated bricks in memory of Jack and Ennis, a guy who had been fired (he says because he was gay) and a few frends and hangers on stanged a protest on the sidewalk. I sat on the office porch with a drink and binoculars with my brokers making comments on how the women were dressed. I suppose I could have joined the protest, could have carried a sign that said "Govenor Kaine it's 2006!" (it took place in 2007).

Then the other night I am on youtube and discovered that DRAG SHOWS have been going on at the local Best Western! OMG! I like to have fell out! And they are posting it on youtube! Man, people are fearless any more.

I have never been much for a drag show, but a part of me would like to be there in real time just for the novelty. I mean, a room full of gay people, in Martinsville, Virginia, not in someones house! Out in public!

Like that guy in Laramie Tails said: "I am glad I have lived to see the day....."


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y12yodA5Zbo[/youtube]

[injest]

Truman, I hope you don't feel like you have to be an activist....you have a right to live your life..and not everyone can be like that.

But I also hope you can see that there isnt' so much to be afraid of....

[ifyoucantfixit]

       Well honey, give yourself a break.  Take a walk on the wild side.  Isn't life about learning.  Maybe you
will have learned something that will make you like it better.  Even if it isnt.  It will just be something out
of the ordinary and humdrum days of life.  Go for it ...!!!  Come back and give us the report like all your
other reports.  Make it a type of academial adventure.

[jstephens9]

I thought at first that this drag show was supposed to be funny, but I take that it is serious. Am I right about that? I know the football players at the high schools around here have always dressed up in drag, but they are supposed to be funny.

[Shakesthecoffecan]

I guess it depends on your perspective, I think the performers want to be taken seriously, and have not themselves looked in a mirror.