Not everyone thinks “gay marketing” equals progress.
To veteran NYC performance artist Penny Arcade, it just means we’re becoming as boring as everyone else.
Her new show, Old Queen, plays tonight as part of the Hot! Festival of gay performance.
Arcade talked to arts blog JustShowstoGoYou. Listen up:
“To live a gay life pre-1970 you had to have a lot of character or to be insane. One or the other.
“You had to be somebody with a critical mind who had the capacity to live outside of society.
“You have all these people right now who can not live without social approbation; they need white middle class America to approve of them and that’s pathetic.
“The branding of ‘queer’ has annoyed me to the point where I wanted to do a show that revealed a gay world that I was a part of that has passed away like the sinking of Atlantis.”
The show is an appreciation of, well, old queens.
“The role of old queens was always to provide context for younger people as history was passed down by word of mouth,” Arcade says.
Amen.
PLUS:
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