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 Watercooler: RuPaul Rolemodel and South African Lesbian
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03.05.2010 11:50am
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03.05.2010 11:50am
EST
• Rupaul is MY role model. Three teachers in a Los
Angeles have been suspended and are under investigation in a controversy
surrounding the schools Black History Month celebration. At the end
of the celebratory month, students paraded around their elementary school with
posters of influential African American’s selected by their teachers. The three
teachers in question chose figures that have the Los Angeles NAACPO. J. Simpson,
Dennis Rodman and our own RuPaul. Prominent black leaders are saying
the choices make a mockery of black history month and that students should have
been taught the successes of leaders like Martin Luther King
Jr., Nelson Mandela and President
Obama. This story has me thinking a few things. Were these teachers,
all reportedly white, stupid or outright racist? Did they not see where there
might be an issue with celebrating a convicted felon? I also wonder why RuPaul was included in this list. I
understand the line of argument that not all parents want their children exposed
to drag queens no matter how fabulous. But come on! Ru is, after all, the
Supermodel of the World! fuming:
• Now that’s not funny. O.K. I am not sure I want to share
this one. It is with deep sadness that I must tell you of the talented
comedienne who is now a bit of a crack pot. Victoria Jackson, who was once a dizzy blond
cast member of Saturday Night Live and is now a paranoid shill
for the Tea Party Movement. I just couldn’t believe
it. I have to admit that I wasn’t aware of her previous steps into far right
wing worship. Ms. Jackson has put together a little song/video for a Tea Party
organization called “There’s a Communist in the White
Houseâ€. For a second I thought it was a skit, but I was,
sadly, mistaken.
• This is war! There is a rising trend in South Africa of
lesbian rape/murder. ActionAid UK reports that lesbians are being
target by men (sometimes groups of men) to “cure†them using “corrective†rape. Since 1998 there have been
31 cases but the number is likely much larger since hate crimes are not
recognized in South Africa. One GLBT group has reported that they respond to ten
new cases each week of lesbians who are targets for “corrective†rape in Cape
Town. I say it’s time to take up arms, sisters!
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• Florida sucks. A 61 year old LPN has been removed from his
position by the state of Florida because he was convicted of a lewd act 34 years
ago. In 1976, Ray Fetcho was the drag queen named
Tiny Tina. He hosted the Wet Jockey Shorts contest at the
Copa in Dania Beach and was arrested for throwing water on the
briefs of the contest contestants. That small act (one that is practiced in gay
and straight bars all over the country) got Ray convicted of promoting lewd and
lascivious behavior. The state licensing agency during a screening of nursing
home employees turned up this decades old conviction and has barred Fetcho from
working as a LPN in the state of Florida unless he is able to get an exemption
from the agency. Fetcho looks like he is ready to fight, “I never mixed my two
careers together. One was show business, one was real. I had the best of both
possible worlds but if I have to fight today to help some other nurse tomorrow,
they are going to have to fight ‘The Queen’ in her court.†You can’t keep a good
queen down!
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• Who needs Manhunt at the Vatican. A papal aid, Angelo
Balducci, is expected to be charged in a gay prostitution scandal.
Balducci would contact two men who sang in St. Peter’s Cappella Giulia to
provide him with male prostitutes. These prostitutes were not your run of the
mill prostitutes. They included young male choir members, seminarians and
undocumented workers. The Vatican has denied that any priests or seminarians
were involved in the sex ring but wiretaps would say otherwise. Balducci is
heard in at least one of the overheard conversations saying “He, when does he
have to return to the seminary?â€. We all know the ongoing anti-gay crusades of
the latest Catholic Pope, but what do they say….glass
houses???
