David Sedaris on coming out, all over again
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2022
- The humorist has some thoughts about the term "queer" and how people today (or perhaps just humanities professors) identify themselves.
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Agreed. I’m not a fan of having a label. If someone else wants one, I don’t have a problem. I’m just me. Living my life.
😂 I like his attitude. Good for him 🎉
I blame the young, they still haven't lived enough to know that we are all everything and nothing at the same time. I have gone from being Mexican to Mexican-American to Chicano, to Hispanic to Latino to now latinX. I don't have room for any more T-Shirts.
Latinx is particularly revolting.
LatinX is ridiculous. When I hear someone (like Eva Longoria) use it I think, "How pretentious and bubble-headed can anyone get? Get over your need to sound hip."
@@rr7firefly Completamente de acuerdo.
this was so perfectly said......love your words and they connected to your feelings.....i never thought of it that way... Thank you
Brilliant!
I completely agree. I am a homosexual man, but that is cumbersome, so I've always just said gay. I have never had any issue with being a man attracted to other men, but I have become more and more uninterested in lgbtqwhatever...I am not an urban culture, and I have no need or interest in being lumped together with the l or the b or the t...in fact, the whole t thing is just off the rails, and I don't understand how that has anything to do with me or why I have been forced to be grouped with the t. Orientation, identity and culture are not the same thing. You can choose your culture and identity. I don't worship female pop stars and I don't care about drag. I am not that gay. I just like sex with men.
I just love him! I snorted at the end.
Bravo good sir. 👏🏻
I love David Sedaris. He is a part of my life. I’ve listened to and read most of his books. He makes me laugh so hard I pee my pants. My favorite is -"the Santa land diaries" and Don’s Story. OMG! They are the best!
Yeah, I gotta say I laugh so hard reading his books. He has a way of tickling my funnybone much like Mark Twain.
Let's just see each one as Human and nothing more.
I am gay (born male, still male), and I don't like being lumped in with trans people, because it's not even the same thing... I feel like I'm in some sort of weird labor union that includes disparate groups like "bakers, confectioners, millers, brewers, and bricklayers", lol ... I have no clue what it's like to be trans; I don't understand it, I've never lived it, I've never suffered for it, so I think I'm unqualified to be under the same "umbrella".
The trans 'gender identity' movement's agenda is to blur the lines and boundaries (it starts w/ the language) b/w sex, gender (an invention by some rather odd men), and sexuality, it's called 'queering' the lines and serves heterosexual men who call themselves women (autogynephiles) and insist on invading women's spaces and appropriating womanhood.
The trans 'gender identity' movement's agenda is to blur the lines and boundaries (it starts w/ the language) b/w sex, gender (an invention by some rather odd men), and sexuality, it's called 'queering' the lines and serves heterosexual men who call themselves women (autogynephiles) and insist on invading women's spaces and appropriating womanhood.
#Facts. This is exactly how I feel. Thank you, Mr. Sedaris.
I remember reading that labels are for jars
Me Talk Pretty One Day is a great book. I love reading what he has to say. His honesty is refreshing.
Buy the audiobook of dress your family in corduroy and denim sit back and LAUGH. The genius of David is delivery, listening to him read his book is a masterpiece.
Amen to that David. I don't need new labels for me....gives me a headache
And this is why I love David Sedaris. I’m a few years older than he so I’ve seen the whole trajectory of which he speaks. This frantic fervor to lead first with one’s ‘identity’ rather than just being the best version of your individual self gets old fast.
I need a resting place, too. Thank you, David.
What a badass
David, I label you… Funny, humorous, you make me laugh, I love you. ☺️😉💖
Treat everyone with the same dignity and kindness you yourself would like to be treated. Let’s not be so concerned about labels. Tell me what you wish to be called and I will respect your wishes. It should be that easy. I enjoyed this greatly and wish him and his husband the best this life has to offer.
The problem is the trans 'gender' borg that wants to re-label everyone, e.g. homosexuals are supposedly now same-gender attracted instead of same-sex attracted--No-- LGBs (homosexual, bisexual) actually know what sex they are --it's in the name. And, no, I will not call a trans heterosexual male cross-dresser w/ a fetish a woman and NO to fraudulent, deceptive pronouns. Homosexuals are homosexual and women are adult human females.
@@unnamed3932 I’ve had no problem with any one asking me to call them that. I’m guessing you haven’t either. Good luck with all that.
🤣🤣🤣☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️... I loved the last line👍🏿
Thanks for this.
As a straight ally... it can be difficult to stay current.
Our obsession with labels is exhausting. Thanks, David. I'm just human... I think. LOL!
Super funny. As a female over 6’, Queer is an interesting identity.
"Straight but with a boyfriend." I like it!
Love it❤️
Bravo!
Like David Sedaris, I'm also gay, I'm also 65 years old and I also hate the word "queer." I never use the word. Would never call myself that. I resent that the word has been foisted on me by some outside entity. Nearly any-and-everything gay-related is "queer this" and "queer that." And don't get me started with the ludicrous string of alphabet letters that is LGBTQA+. I'm sure more alphabet letters will be added to that string soon enough.
Me & Me, you have said exactly what I've wanted to say for years!
I have felt this way for a long time but didn't think that I as a straight chick was allowed to say anything.
Good for you!
We are all equal.
I've loved him since I read his first book, and I love his curmudgeonly Hugh, too!! David, you're lookin' GREAT, compadre! You carry on. Oh, and say "hi" to Amy.
Fantastic, Mr. Sedaris!
Yeah, i'm labelled all the time too. It's all about their judgements. Would be nice if we could see each other as someone to laugh with, learn from, etc etc. But the human judgement has been around forever, dividing us, as usual.
I’ve been thinking about my place in the Alphabet community ever since Dave Chappell’s Sticks and Stones. Also brilliant.
Thank you David Sedaris.
I agree, David! Assigning labels is the bane of our society. But the word "queer" is my comfortable one, so I'm sticking with it. 🌈
😂 love you David!
Thank you...
Awesome David f@cking awesome. 😂
It’s important to have ourselves figure out our place and what we are each morning, when we wake up.
We might think we’re different, but we must remember that we are still the same person, despite a few changes to ourselves, over the years.
I love YOU!! You are a reason I still believe in a healthy and intellinge people. Also, in a good and claver sarcasm!
Perfect!
Great Author. Hysterical
I am what I am…I do what I do… I hope all is well with you . Life is a journey and we all got places to go. Nobody has to pay attention to labels.
This is a very interesting story.
31 years. You guys must really like each other. Congrats.
Hugh and David are, from all accounts, open with each other and do not need to hide anything.
Yes!!!
A hilarious genius 😂
You'll always be David to me.
Norm Macdonald was on Larry King's show and Larry asked “What’s something nobody knows about you?” Norm said “Well I’m a closeted gay man.” Larry asked “What?! What are you revealing here? You’re gay?” and Norm said “Whoa whoa whoa, I’m not gay! I said *closeted*.” This reminded me of that.
Does anyone feel he sounds like a mix of Eddie Diezen and Joe Peschi?
♥️
It's hard to keep up with the ever changing labels placed upon various social and racial groups.
Seriously 👍 this ☝️
The female who was worried about how tall she was should not have used the word queer. She should have used the word UNUSUAL
He's making a point, I think, about how ludicrous it is call yourself something you're not. Homosexuals are same-sex attracted not same-gender attracted as the trans 'gender' movement has tried to redefine them. The trans agenda is about using language to blur the lines/boundaries b/w sex, gender, and sexuality. This has real world implications for women's and LGB's sex-based rights. If male heterosexual cross-dressers w/ a fetish, autogynephiles/transvestic fetishists, can be considered women then women's sex-based rights are supplanted by male fetishists' 'gender identity' and all of women's hard-won rights and opportunities are lost including the right to single-sex spaces for safeguarding, privacy, and dignity, sex matters and language matters.
Hehe ☺️☺️☺️
Him and Hugh are so cute together. Haven’t seen either of them since I was a little kid but I remember Hugh was so kind. David had a sharp wit of course and was less interested in children haha.
I agree as a gay man that I am heterosexual but without a boyfriend 😂
I’m so f***ing confused by that ending.
Nobody is LGBT. It would be impossible to be Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered at the same time.
Gangsta BRILLIANT 🔥
Is David Sedaris the new Andy Rooney?
The labels have become wearysome.....let's just let people live their lives as they please...
Female doesn't change? You're not even allowed to say what it means.
I love how he said "the term queer" and didn't make it into a gender 👌🏼
I too am straight
though without a girlfriend.
Still looking 🌸
I loved this. David can call himself anything he likes. He is David. Labels are are meant to be used on people who you don’t like or want to make fun of.
He's way funnier than that Jim Gaffigan.
And a lot smoother too, with his humor.
Uch I can’t stand Jim Gaffagan. I don’t have anything against him personally, I just don’t find him funny and his voice grates on me…
😂
How are you, I know you can't answer being famous Love
And I'm trying to quit smoking
Slow clap
I WILL NOT use the term queer to identify an entire group of people!!! I can’t get past the negative connotation.
Perfect. And White people shouldn't use the n-bomb either. Good post.
Exactly!
It’s crazy thinking to me…here let’s use the language that people who hate us use. Let’s use this pejorative term that our opponents use to try to hurt us as our label. It makes no sense to me and it never has.
Had zero to do with homosexuality in the 70's, simply meant acting strange or weird.
Queer is a verb.
In my long life, I've never met one single gay man who came out that people didn't know about already. Not just people I know, but those in politics and show business. It's a very difficult thing to hide, particularly, in Mr. Sedaris's case, not so much the visual but the audio.
If this had come from a "straight" person they would be excoriated.
I'm queer. Always have been. It's not a new term...
It's used to mean strange or weird, had zero to do with homosexuality
I can't believe that this is still news in 2022. So, what, who cares? Just live your LIFE!!!!!!
GIVe us a break !
Andy Rooney
I'm not interested, AT ALL, in being called "queer".
Crumpit
I'm trying to get into space force as a liberal 😂 conservatives own space NOT
"me talk pretty one day" is starting to change the meaning of terms. It's hard to talk pretty when you don't make sense.
Closet, is the correct term.
Any hole 🕳 is a goal 🥅
Who cares! Be gay but why keep bragging and forcing this down our throats?
Qur'an forbids as does old testament not new testament
Forbids tall people from identifying as queer?
It's called WOKE. Labels just create dividing line.
This guy is high. We have ALWAYS used Queer, ever since Stonewall.
back then it was a slur along with a bunch of other terms Now the trend seems to be toward embracing those terms?
@@brucejackson3844 it's been reclaimed for like 50 years. If people still have an issue with it, that's on them.
Everyone has their own experience. He’s not high, he’s had different experiences.
But the real truth is, HE’S A HUMORIST. His point is nuanced labels get tiring as one gets older. Eventually, if we’re lucky, they won’t matter at all….because what matters is not what you are but how you treat yourself and others.
New label: Good person
@@mmw5656 Except he's totally making digs at the trans, nonbinary, and asexual members of our community. That "tall" comment is in the same mean spirit as "I identify as an attack helicopter."
@@kaitosalem4391 No, he’s bringing awareness to his experience of being “tired by it all”. He’s allowed, he’s part of that experience and community.
I promise you, you will get to an age where all this stuff just starts being irrelevant and you find yourself just wanting to be someone without the labels….it’s heavy work. After all, underneath being gay, trans, disabled, black, white, blonde, man, woman, Hispanic, rich, poor, etc…., we all just want to be seen and acknowledged for who we are, not what we are. The “what’s “ are the things that ultimately divide.
You’ll see…and when that time comes, you will feel free. You won’t feel the need to defend…..it’s a relief. That’s the gift.
We can’t forget to laugh at ourselves. That is the key.
Truly I say to you, whoever hears my word (Jesus) and believes him who sent me (God) has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.John 5:24 Are people born gay? Do people choose to commit adultery/fornicate or are they born with a tendency to sin? Please think about it. Repent/believe or you will not inherit the kingdom of God. Out of love Jesus died for you.
Why not say nothing? I dont tell people I'm straight
When did David Sedaris become Andy Rooney?
David, I love you, but no one is forcing you to label yourself as anything. Get off your little soap box, do what works for you, and don’t throw shade at those of us who identify as queer. A tall woman claiming to be queer doesn’t make it so, like Rachel Dolezal isn’t actually black. I know you are smart enough to see that. This video sadly makes you seem like a dinosaur.
This is a vague criticism of the binary confusion/affirmation taking place among the young. "Things that rarely change, like being female," he quips. Why not live and let live? I reject labels too, but not by throwing shade at people struggling to become.
Lame. Didn’t make sense
Exactly his point
just label him bad.
So sad to see a once funny and edgy humorist become a humorless get-off-my-porch guy.