I have a couple more YouTube suggestions, which I should have put on my first time. I see that some people can move the videos from Youtube directly to here. I don't know how to do that, so I have to rely on telling you about them so you will go there.
The first is Jack I Swear done by BayCityJohn. It is the Steven Robinson song with skillfully selected clips from BBM. This is the most powerful BBM song I have ever heard, and BCJ does a beautiful job with it. There are a few versions of the song on YouTube, but his is by far the best. If the end of BBM still makes you cry, you will cry here too. BayCityJohn has done many excellent videos on YouTube; look for his name when you go there. He is, by the way, a BetterMostian, and would probably appreciate a personal message of thanks if you like Jack I Swear--which I am sure you will.
My second suggestion is The Man I Love by John Alcorn. (Play the one with his face on the album cover.) I discovered this song on Queer as Folk. Alcorn is a gay jazz singer in Toronto (my city). I don't know how a straight woman would react to hearing it sung by a man, but to a gay man (at least this gay man) it has resonances and depths not there when hearing it sung by a woman.
I see that some people can move the videos from Youtube directly to here. I don't know how to do that, so I have to rely on telling you about them so you will go there.
The famous cat herding commercial. It is the West. It belongs in BetterMost.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7yqlTMvp8[/youtube]
Sophia, the Dave & Chris video could only appeal to a sick mind---I LOVED it. :)
What I offer here is the famous Prom Scene, which ended Season 1 of QAF. I may be the only QAF freak in BetterMost, but my grizzled, old, far-too-romantic heart beats faster when I see it. Don't worry about the sad ending--Justin recovers and all is well.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9u_Y2u2ZAk[/youtube]
One of Davis' most notorious films, Boys Beware (1961), produced with the cooperation of the Inglewood, California Police Department and the Inglewood Unified School District, warns boys of the perceived dangers of male homosexuals. The film includes the line "What Jimmy didn't know was that Ralph was sick—a sickness that was not visible like smallpox, but no less dangerous and contagious—a sickness of the mind. You see, Ralph was a homosexual: a person who demands an intimate relationship with members of their own sex." .... "[t]o modern audiences, Mr. Davis's work can look like high camp. Some of his films have aged strikingly badly, in particular 'Boys Beware,'[...]"[4]
Thank you for posting this.
I really hope straight people, i.e.,the huge majority of people in power, in the Western World can look at these films as "high camp...aged strikingly badly." I have been doing a lot of thinking since the Dallas Buyer's Club debate, and I am beginning to loosen up. There is indeed no reason to, as you put it, "borrow trouble" when confronting the future. Maybe things for LGBT people really are permanently getting better, and I must try to see my own situation as having one foot in the bad old days (as in the film), and the other in the Now--rather than my being imprisoned in the past. To some extent this is a leap of faith. To say all this in BetterMost is perhaps preaching to the choir. It has taken me a long time to realize this. Thanks to all of you who have helped me along the way.
:)
sc, thanks for the linking tip.
What if....
homosexuality were normative, and heterosexuality was nonstandard?
Here's a well made reverse take on things.
can't see the video at work, and from what scarfing is described as, that's probably a good thing.
:laugh:
Great video about the LGBTIQ community: