hi all! I've received a lot of comments informing me that it was, in fact, NOT Marsha P Johnson who threw the first brick at Pride, but Storm Delarverie, a black lesbian. I take full accountability that this was a wrong statement on my part, and I really do thank you all for dutifully correcting me. I still have a lot of queer history left to learn, and I should have been more thorough in my research regarding such an important moment in our history, rather than relying on my own memory (which is riddled with ADHD--not an excuse, obviously). thank you for educating me and I apologize if I spread any misinformation. carry on
This isn't necessarily true- no one knows who threw the first brick. Marsha has claimed and unclaimed it a few times, as have many other folks. Some people say bricks weren't even thrown in the first place. It was a whole section of my queer history class last semester. You didn't do anything wrong!
Now apologize for that renegade eyelash. It is a hate crime against my adhd. (This has been your moment of mid-edgy humor as a misguided form of parasocial simping. I do not in fact think that you are my friend that I can tease. I hope this comes off as the kind of compliment it was meant as. And I hope that eyelash comes off because aaaaaaargh!)
ive only seen TERFs say this and although i think it could be real, im hesitant to just take away a black transwomans accomplishment and a fact ive heard unargued for years
If I remember right, it was Storm Delarverie who threw the first punch. It’s not 100% clear who threw the first brick. I think it’s good enough to point out some of the most prominent leaders of queer liberation, who were present at Stone Wall and who carried on the fight afterwards.
I hope you're safe enough that you don't have to change yourself for society's sake. These terrorists have no business winning and making life awful for people. Life is awful enough on a good day. If it's safe enough I hope you can live your transness loudly and proudly. These little...curse words...shouldn't be given an inch of the ground us LGBTQ+ folks have won.
It's scary. We need to keep pushing back against it, and never stop being vigilant against bigotry, because it grows when people take our hard-earned things for granted and start thinking that it can't get worse again. Just look at how misogyny came back with a vengeance after the 2000's when everyone insisted that we didn't need feminism anymore and that sexism was a problem that had been solved.
I was there in very queer (furry) circles in the early 2010's, passing rotten takes like a stanky blunt. I think it got better, I certainly have done my darndest to learn to be better. Regardless, we should have absolutely known better.
One of my friends has the ‘Daniel Radcliff’s hairy a**hole’ card from cards against humanity signed by him, so theres my second hand nice Daniel Radcliff story.
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is problematic because it pretty much only effected the people who had served. I’ve talked to a lot of people who served, and having gay and bi people that everyone knew was gay and bi was well known. What Don’t Ask Don’t Tell did wasn’t necessarily make it so gay people can’t serve, but made it so you could have gay people serve and have them stripped of their honors and ruin their life. That’s what Don’t Ask Don’t Tell mostly did, you’d have vets come home from war, then go on a date in public with a man, and then have all of their honors removed and dishonorably discharged (which also hurts employment opportunities). Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was very insidious. It wasn’t about think gay people weren’t good enough to serve, rather they thought we were good enough to serve but knew everyone else didn’t think that so they didn’t want people to know and would ruin your life if you expressed your sexuality It wasn’t about LGBTQ* people getting the right to serve, but about the right to not have their sacrifices invalidated and struggling to find a job due a dishonorable discharge merely because they were gay.
don’t forget the hundreds of baby gays who found out their identity after an “Am I Gay?” buzzfeed quiz and saw their identity with a pop culture gif at the bottom lol. i know for me at least, buzzfeed was one of the few first times i saw queerness being so celebrated
Minor correction: nobody knows who threw the first brick. But it is often attributed to Marsha (not trying to diminish her legacy, she was and will forever be a legend and icon of queerness)
Reminder that the story of Marsha P Johnson throwing the first brick is merely a symptom of us as a community pushing to acknowledge trans people and people of color’s contributions to our history and legacy, but if we are going to honor them we should acknowledge the inherent messiness of that history, like we may never really know who “threw the first brick” but we can acknowledge Marsha P Johnson by fighting for trans people and BIPOC people today
@@pigslaundry5593 Maybe she did throw the first brick because up until that point the rest were throwing rocks? IDK I think that it is hard to come across random bricks laying around. She was known for carrying bricks in her purse tho, so she came prepared
little known story: Daniel Radcliff paid to have one of the last known film reels of Goncherov restored so it could be played at a film festival in New Zealand. He tried to do it anonymously but oopps xD
my Daniel Radcliffe story is that because of him being naked in a play I found out I was gay when I was 14, so yes, he is phenomenal! 😍🙌🏻 great video! it's time we talk about how companies don't care about queer people, they care about making money from queer people.
Probably why sex-worker exclusionists have almost all the same talking points as trans exclusionists. They’re both extremely regressive and harmful to people.
Sex work shouldn't be part of a gay culture. It's a symptom of disowned and disenfranchised by family and community and forced to go into these roles for survival. As a former survivalist, the community abandoned me and others I watched friends die for nothing.... But yeah .... Community. Yeah we shouldn't mention it in a good light. Considering trans s workers would be killed and no justice to found.
Taking from ContraPoints, there's a distinction between cringe and disdain. Those capitalist characters are disdainful; it's the *audience* that's cringe for adulating these disdainful figures before we knew better. Of course, people are cringing at themselves more than cringing at each other
As someone who served in the military under DADT and post DADT and as a POC I can say how important that was for me. I joined the military because I refused to take out student loans and I needed a way out of an Ohio far away that I could find myself. I grew up poor so just getting in a car and moving wasn’t an option for me. For me the military gave me the option for both. It was already hard enough being black in the military due to it being a good ole boys club and very evident racisms amongst other things. Throw in coming to terms with being gay and not having to talk about……. I know RPDR gets a bad rep, but it was truly my saving grace. It was the only thing I had during DADT that showed me real people that looked like me on tv. I could watch it from my apartment and nobody would know. I could get exposed to a culture that I couldn’t be apart of because I would have to worry about losing my job and being forced to go back to a place that wasn’t the best for my mental health. I feel that people over look the intersectionality of being POC and Queer and how we don’t have the same options as white queer. I also feel that just glazing over the fact that DADT was repelled completely diminished those who sacrificed their lives defending a law that didn’t protect them.
We're the same age. I never wanted to work for buzzfeed. I wanted to work for Cracked or College Humor. Which were just the nerd and comedy versions of buzzfeed lol
It's really cool to me that drag has extended itself to now having cis women participating. It's like everyone can now put on the makeup, the wig, the beautiful dress and just have a good old time. I'm sure this isn't looked at as anything particularly interesting to you young folk, but I'll be 40 in a few days so I've seen some shit. So much has changed since I was a young gay person. I know it's scary right now, but you guys have so much more room to be yourselves and I hope you take advantage of that regardless of what the right wing lunatics say. Life is too short to hide and be miserable. You've got an entire family working on your behalf to make life easier and better; grab every opportunity we can give you and run a million miles with them. There are people out there who love you, you just haven't met them yet. Shit. Sorry. My dad instincts have been running rampant and I can't help but dad everyone. Okay, I'll stop...
I think we can help queer youth best, personally, by making it easier for queer kids to escape their abusive blood parents. We need to weaken parental "rights" and recognize youth rights to choose their caregivers. When I think of the effort spent begging straight parents to stop abusing their queer kids...and look around today to see how little it has paid off? Time to stop placating the straights. Damn right we're coming to destroy the family.
It was so weird being a kid in the BuzzFeed gay era... so many of us now young adults have a weird rift between being gay and being (BuzzFeed) Gay Tm**
To be cringe is to be free. I think that the things described as "cringe" in this video are probably more indicative of a generation looking back and judging everyone for being so completely fooled. For buying in. For making such a fuss about human rights and then turning back around to pat Lin Manuel Miranda on his special little ass for making a musical that was not NEARLY as progressive as everyone thought it was, or whatever. All that being said, I just found your channel and I love it. Great stuff!
Im a 45f married mom of 4 (basically boring) and I just found Chappelle Roan like 2 weeks ago and cannot stop listening to her music. I actually feel like I'm watching a supernova (pun not intended) be born. Like how people back then felt watching Elvis, they knew he was going to change music. Well I feel like that's what we are witnessing with Chappelle, like she's going to be an icon, a music changer.
2:00 "I love coining new words, it makes me feel like I've contributed to society" > the new word being a way to call some random guy ugly for all eternity
capitolism ruins and steals everything it touches. Kristen and Jen are fantastic examples of this bc the reason they cant call it the Kristen and Jen show is bc a corporation owns the rights to their names.
Legit, I found Chappell Roan's album by pure chance just last week. It was one of those recommended artists on Spotify based on my account. I already listened to it on repeat since then and the other day I was on my couch crying listening with a can of beer. My GOD that album is powerful. Also to get back to the video, this was super interesting to think about queeriness going mainstream and still there a def view of making us suitable for capitalism. I think we hit a point now with last year with Target and now when I was at the march this past month, there has been more a shift back to niche icons, charities, and moments only the community would really understand. Overall, your channel is dope.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but Marsha herself has stated many times that she joined while the riots had already started. It’s lost in history who threw the first brick (i know you didn’t say that, but many ppl believe it was marsha). She herself stated that she arrived around 2 am when the place was on fire and the riots had already started. I don’t want to come off as a know-it-all, i’m just autistic and queer history is one of my special interests!
Me too. I was thinking "Oooh, this'll get interesting. And weird. Mostly weird. Probably." Then I heard "I flunked pre-calculus", and I thought "Whaaaat? Are we doing Meth-math? Exciting! Bit of a jump from the subject, though..." It took way, way, *waaay* too long before I realized my mistake. Glad to know I wasn't the only one. I am, however, gonna blame it on me being a Swedish biatch, even though that _definitely_ isn't the reason since my English is perfectly fine.
I didn't expect the Stonewall movie to be brought up but fuck I was shot back to my senior year of high school where I made my final project in my US History class a scathing review of that movie.
On Prop 8: fun fact, my father was personally responsible for Prop 8 going on the main ballot, which led to its victory, and it just so happens that my dad and I are ourselves attracted to guys (stereotypical, I know). Our self loathing is genuine, though.
My wife and I genuinely laughed so hard at the cigarette butts in your hair, then remembered Mathew Shepard getting beat to death during your monologue and instantly started crying
I just had to tell you; I'm from the backwoods of Florida, about as hillbilly as it gets down here. I'm not political at all, I choose to think for myself, though obviously it's a very conservative state, especially where I live. You reach a broad audience. I really enjoy (most of) your videos and your point of view. I think you're well spoken, intelligent, unapologetic and a great creator. Keep up the great work, you've got support from all sides!
I came from the mr.birchum yaoi video, and then stayed for literally everything else, I binged all your videos and loved them! keep up with the amazing work
I found this channel yesterday and you just gained a huge fan. I love your make up, I also love and admire how articulate and well-read you are. You know your stuff; the amount of extensive research you do is remarkable, and your interpretation of your findings and observation is on another level. I wish you were my history teacher in high school. ❤❤❤
They used to use the phrase: Face for radio. Back in the day we called all this Respectability Politics and honestly that shit never worked well for the community overall. I love the term "Pick Me" that is a damn good phrase.
I convinced my school trip to London to go see Daniel Radcliff in Equus!! It started for the lulz but afterward we had one of the most poignant discussions of life and art post-play that has stayed with me through the years
14:35 One time, me and Danny Rad (that's what I call him) were stuck on an island, but he wasn't dead like in that movie. He was/is however magical, but not like either of the movies you're thinking of. We'll, TLDR; Me and Danny Rad defeated the N*zis, escaped the evil scientist's island, and made sweet love on the alien space craft we commandeered while saving the entire supply of Canada's maple syrup reserve. What a magical day that was.
the gay wage gap also could be explained that kids are expenisve. but also take more time. unless you have children from a previous relationship. parenthood is really only feasable for richer same sex couples. adoption is expensive, IVF and sperm bank is expensive. a surrogate? rightfully very expensive. it's normal that if you have kids, especially women, to work a little less hours. or stop for a few years if your income is less than daycare. which would mean more time in your career. besides wealthier individuals having more mental space to question their identity and less of a risk to lose everything.
It wasn’t reclaimed at the same time in all places. Where I grew up, queer was primarily used in a derogatory way and was largely not considered reclaimed. This was circa 2017 in semi-rural Ohio. We knew it was reclaimed by some people online, but it wasn’t for us for a long time
@@alexreid1173 This was pre-online, though. I'm thinking mainly in terms of the political movements in the wake of the AIDS crisis years, like Queer Nation (which developed out of and alongside ACT-UP) in 1990. That was a ground zero moment for both the reclamation of the word and the tenor of the political advocacy of the time, and it carried through the decade as visibility grew and political goals were being taken seriously. Granted, language is an ever evolving set of symbols and systems and signifiers and what-have-yous, and what's common parlance in more insider circles doesn't automatically translate to everyday conversation. Dissemination, even in the internet age, can take some time. Some people -- of varying ages, I might add -- still find queer to be nothing *_but_* a slur, and its usage reprehensible. And you can't argue someone's feelings. But I think it's a wonderful, all-encompassing umbrella term for a wide range of folk. I certainly would never force anyone use a term they dislike, but I'll also be damned if anyone insists I stop using it because it makes _them_ uncomfortable. It's a deeply entrenched part of my identity, forged in my history, and a battle won right. So, it felt a little belittling to be told the the word "queer" was reclaimed decades after the facts of my own existence. But I may have misread her intention, focusing on the "reclaiming" part of the sentence instead of the "we" (the act vs the era). That is, to say that the word itself hadn't already been reclaimed, but that it hadn't been reclaimed by people _her_ age until that time. If that's the case, my sincerest apologies, no harm no foul, and all that good stuff!
I remember being a kid in semi rural Canada. It was definitely a sl*r when I was a kid, people even used gay as an insult then too. That was after 2000. Years after I graduated (precovid) I was uncomfortable even hearing queer after how it was used when I was younger. I'm happy we've been able to reclaim the term as our own.
@@ursaminorjim I’m not sure exactly what she meant to imply tbh. But yeah reclaiming is something that takes awhile. A lot of movements and culture changes start in urban areas, so rural areas tend to be the last to catch on. That’s changing a bit with better internet access, but many rural areas still had crappy internet even 10 years ago. “Gay” was a much more popular umbrella term where I grew up, but it was still only considered okay in certain contexts. I still identify better with “gay” than “queer” even though I’m bi. I’m 100% okay with people using the term queer for themselves. My main issue, especially after moving to an urban area, was just how often I’m called queer or lumped in with the “queer community” despite never identifying with that word. I’ve been getting more used to it over the past few years, but I do wish people would be more mindful about it. I don’t think some people realize that not everyone and every place considers it 100% reclaimed and inoffensive.
If you are in the one percent--doesnt matter your status as a minority--if you are one of the ultra wealthy... you will be promoting racism, sexism, conservatism, ect. The CEO's role is very indirect. Hard to spot. Its the store managers and regional managers who promote these things but make the company too much money for the CEOs to care. The CEOs can be like "well I'M not racist... its this one manager. I didn't know it was happening at all." then fire that manager if the media backlash forces them to. But they don't really care. They put systems in place that allow managers/region managers to hide their malpractice. That's how POC CEOs that are contributing to current issues. It's not all white men/women but it is ALL wealthy capitalist 1%.
So an interesting point that supports your theory of rich gays being more able to safely come out… There’s been another study that showed that married straight men were more likely to be given raises and promotions compared to their single gay counterparts, especially in the time immediately following their marriage or birth of their children. Though this was inverse for most straight women who rarely get that same bump
This pride month has had the worst pinkwashing I have ever seen in regards to our queer Palestinian siblings perishing at this moment to a genocidal colonial state that paints itself as progressive.
cant wait till the trans wage gap is talked about, most of us trans folx take like a10-20 percent cut on our income by coming in as out transitioned gender. some places hire trans folx at such a low payrate because we are thought of not as an average employee but a risk for reward. having a trans worker is good in most hiring eyes for diversity but most companies consider us a "liability risk" because mistreatment of us could end in a lawsuit they reduce our pay because they assume we are going to sue them for mistreatment, which just ends up with us being on a razor's edge because of how quickly Walmart is ready to bury their trans workers without even a warning. annoying, I'm glad I work at a dispensary. only place I've worked that hasn't actually said or done something incredibly offensive
As a former evangelical that who voted for W and against gay marriage; I am grateful for BuzzFeed’s “cringey” gay content. It helped normalize queer culture for me! (I was also working in the food service industry in a very blue city so buzzfeed isn’t wholly responsible 😅)
7:16 I actually love his song that samples the other side (Red Hot) and talks about the dangers of rappers going over the line of expression towards glorifying drug use
God, I'm happy I found this channel. You're putting in words a lot of things I've only vaguely observed here. Rarely does the cultural evolution of online representation and its true real-life implications get discussed like this. It's a great summation of a the past decade or so of development and its causes.
"no cops at pride" is... I don't know. I would fear for my safety with cops there, and I would fear for my safety without cops in the presence of anti-pride protesters. And, it is sad that we have to analyze it in that way, but I don't know what else to think.
think of it this way, the reason you never see cops being violent towards fascists or anti-pride protestors is the same reason you never see Bruce Wayne and Batman together in the same room
@@queencokefrancis you're so right. im just concerned that folks who attend pride may not be able to defend themselves from the violent hatred that comes from protestors. It's like the BLM protests- the anti-protestors were the more violent people, so protestors were badly injured by both the anti-BLM AND the police. Its a scary world we live in.
Hi. I stumbled upon you today while struggling to work from home with a case of Strep Throat after suffering the Flu B the week before last week. As you can guess, my month has been pretty shitty. And then I found your Ru Paul video and your Spike TV video, and now I am watching this. I want to thank you for providing entertaining and enlightening videos. They help me carry on. I don’t mind if this is not the “highlight comment”, but I just wanna say thanks for making my day
it would be very cool if you made some sort of community/discord for fans id love to meet other fans of your content and humor considering how funny you are lol
@@queencokefrancis lol if you ever need help i am pretty good at discord moderation and can give you some run-downs on moderation bots, server security, and just general discord functions. i run and mod in a few servers so i've got experience with it and i love helping out
@@queencokefrancis good luck. I've been using Discord for years and I still don't know how that fucking program works! It's like they hired someone and told them, "make this shit as confusing as humanly possible and don't ever stop."
i feel like the really funny trend of editing images of ben shapiro/jordan peterson/matt walsh/etc to have pride flags and be inclusive and stuff is someone kind of similar to the mr birchum yaoi. idk if anyone else has seen those images or knows what im talking about but yeah
Flick in the background! 🥰 Also, omg. Im watching this after I watched your video on why you dont watch drag race (first time watching your vids) anymore! Great video, thats why I decided to watch another. You've gotten a new subscriber!🎉
Lovely video! Would you ever want to make more video essays about video games? I enjoyed watching the Final Fantasy one, so I’m eager to see more of your takes on video games that strike your fancy (though I admittedly am patiently waiting for the day I see one about any of the Bayonetta games)! I find your sense of humor pleasant and enjoy the parts of your essays where you can be more analytical. I also enjoyed seeing a fellow fujoshi take the piss out of the Birchum show and treat the wonderful fanart (and artists) so respectfully! Very grateful to have found this channel! Hope you have a wonderful day! :D
i believe chappell has actually publicly stated that she’s bi adjacent, i think she’s said she’s exploring different identities such as pan and omni, i might be wrong though.
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hi all! I've received a lot of comments informing me that it was, in fact, NOT Marsha P Johnson who threw the first brick at Pride, but Storm Delarverie, a black lesbian. I take full accountability that this was a wrong statement on my part, and I really do thank you all for dutifully correcting me. I still have a lot of queer history left to learn, and I should have been more thorough in my research regarding such an important moment in our history, rather than relying on my own memory (which is riddled with ADHD--not an excuse, obviously). thank you for educating me and I apologize if I spread any misinformation. carry on
This isn't necessarily true- no one knows who threw the first brick. Marsha has claimed and unclaimed it a few times, as have many other folks. Some people say bricks weren't even thrown in the first place. It was a whole section of my queer history class last semester. You didn't do anything wrong!
Now apologize for that renegade eyelash. It is a hate crime against my adhd.
(This has been your moment of mid-edgy humor as a misguided form of parasocial simping. I do not in fact think that you are my friend that I can tease. I hope this comes off as the kind of compliment it was meant as. And I hope that eyelash comes off because aaaaaaargh!)
but the twitter name "bricked up for Marsha" was doing so well 4 me wtf
ive only seen TERFs say this and although i think it could be real, im hesitant to just take away a black transwomans accomplishment and a fact ive heard unargued for years
If I remember right, it was Storm Delarverie who threw the first punch. It’s not 100% clear who threw the first brick. I think it’s good enough to point out some of the most prominent leaders of queer liberation, who were present at Stone Wall and who carried on the fight afterwards.
It terrifies me as a trans woman how it’s seemingly ok to publicly and loudly say horrible things about trans people and it’s ok
I hope you're safe enough that you don't have to change yourself for society's sake. These terrorists have no business winning and making life awful for people. Life is awful enough on a good day. If it's safe enough I hope you can live your transness loudly and proudly. These little...curse words...shouldn't be given an inch of the ground us LGBTQ+ folks have won.
Same :c as a trans man I share your concerns, it's scary to be honest ;;
It's scary. We need to keep pushing back against it, and never stop being vigilant against bigotry, because it grows when people take our hard-earned things for granted and start thinking that it can't get worse again. Just look at how misogyny came back with a vengeance after the 2000's when everyone insisted that we didn't need feminism anymore and that sexism was a problem that had been solved.
I was there in very queer (furry) circles in the early 2010's, passing rotten takes like a stanky blunt. I think it got better, I certainly have done my darndest to learn to be better. Regardless, we should have absolutely known better.
Yeah, thinking of that particularly tasteful Michael Knowles speech... It did give me a genuine chill when I first heard it
One of my friends has the ‘Daniel Radcliff’s hairy a**hole’ card from cards against humanity signed by him, so theres my second hand nice Daniel Radcliff story.
DELICIOUS asshole. It's his DELICIOUS asshole. How dare you
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is problematic because it pretty much only effected the people who had served. I’ve talked to a lot of people who served, and having gay and bi people that everyone knew was gay and bi was well known.
What Don’t Ask Don’t Tell did wasn’t necessarily make it so gay people can’t serve, but made it so you could have gay people serve and have them stripped of their honors and ruin their life. That’s what Don’t Ask Don’t Tell mostly did, you’d have vets come home from war, then go on a date in public with a man, and then have all of their honors removed and dishonorably discharged (which also hurts employment opportunities).
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was very insidious. It wasn’t about think gay people weren’t good enough to serve, rather they thought we were good enough to serve but knew everyone else didn’t think that so they didn’t want people to know and would ruin your life if you expressed your sexuality
It wasn’t about LGBTQ* people getting the right to serve, but about the right to not have their sacrifices invalidated and struggling to find a job due a dishonorable discharge merely because they were gay.
I’m a subscriber of a few days, came for birchum yaoi, stayed for the buzzfeed gay
SAME HERE. AND SO TRUE. IM ALSO GENDERFLUID.
Literally found this channel last night, and this sums up the experience
LOL SAME MAN
HELP SAME @@urbroz
Thisister same!! ❤
don’t forget the hundreds of baby gays who found out their identity after an “Am I Gay?” buzzfeed quiz and saw their identity with a pop culture gif at the bottom lol.
i know for me at least, buzzfeed was one of the few first times i saw queerness being so celebrated
Looking at you Nick Nelson 🍃🍃🍃
18:17 - Shoutout to all the LGBTQIA+ drone pilots, fracking engineers, and chemical company executives.
Shout-out to the mercenary queens💅💅
Oh the fracking?
"Just google 'matt walsh sixteen year olds"
No, I don't think I will.
Minor correction: nobody knows who threw the first brick. But it is often attributed to Marsha (not trying to diminish her legacy, she was and will forever be a legend and icon of queerness)
Yes, she said herself that she didn't show up until about an hour after the uprising started
Good. Security culture is important
Reminder that the story of Marsha P Johnson throwing the first brick is merely a symptom of us as a community pushing to acknowledge trans people and people of color’s contributions to our history and legacy, but if we are going to honor them we should acknowledge the inherent messiness of that history, like we may never really know who “threw the first brick” but we can acknowledge Marsha P Johnson by fighting for trans people and BIPOC people today
@@pigslaundry5593 Maybe she did throw the first brick because up until that point the rest were throwing rocks? IDK I think that it is hard to come across random bricks laying around.
She was known for carrying bricks in her purse tho, so she came prepared
We know it wasn’t her.
She was not even at the Stonewall when the uprising started
Danielle Radcliffe saved my cat
little known story: Daniel Radcliff paid to have one of the last known film reels of Goncherov restored so it could be played at a film festival in New Zealand. He tried to do it anonymously but oopps xD
my Daniel Radcliffe story is that because of him being naked in a play I found out I was gay when I was 14, so yes, he is phenomenal! 😍🙌🏻
great video! it's time we talk about how companies don't care about queer people, they care about making money from queer people.
marsha p johnson was also a sex worker. sex work is a HUGE part of queer culture and we should mention it more often imho.
not to mention the oppression sex workers face at the hands of cops. that in and of itself is enough to ban cops from pride.
Probably why sex-worker exclusionists have almost all the same talking points as trans exclusionists. They’re both extremely regressive and harmful to people.
Can we tell the whole truth!?
Sex work shouldn't be part of a gay culture. It's a symptom of disowned and disenfranchised by family and community and forced to go into these roles for survival. As a former survivalist, the community abandoned me and others I watched friends die for nothing.... But yeah .... Community. Yeah we shouldn't mention it in a good light. Considering trans s workers would be killed and no justice to found.
Is it "culture" or is it that trans women are pushed into survival sex work because they often have no other options?
Taking from ContraPoints, there's a distinction between cringe and disdain. Those capitalist characters are disdainful; it's the *audience* that's cringe for adulating these disdainful figures before we knew better. Of course, people are cringing at themselves more than cringing at each other
cringe politics
Contrapoints is cringe.
As someone who served in the military under DADT and post DADT and as a POC I can say how important that was for me. I joined the military because I refused to take out student loans and I needed a way out of an Ohio far away that I could find myself. I grew up poor so just getting in a car and moving wasn’t an option for me. For me the military gave me the option for both. It was already hard enough being black in the military due to it being a good ole boys club and very evident racisms amongst other things. Throw in coming to terms with being gay and not having to talk about……. I know RPDR gets a bad rep, but it was truly my saving grace. It was the only thing I had during DADT that showed me real people that looked like me on tv. I could watch it from my apartment and nobody would know. I could get exposed to a culture that I couldn’t be apart of because I would have to worry about losing my job and being forced to go back to a place that wasn’t the best for my mental health.
I feel that people over look the intersectionality of being POC and Queer and how we don’t have the same options as white queer. I also feel that just glazing over the fact that DADT was repelled completely diminished those who sacrificed their lives defending a law that didn’t protect them.
Second, i saw the thumbnail. I knew it was Chappell Roan little desk concert inspired.
We're the same age. I never wanted to work for buzzfeed. I wanted to work for Cracked or College Humor. Which were just the nerd and comedy versions of buzzfeed lol
It's really cool to me that drag has extended itself to now having cis women participating. It's like everyone can now put on the makeup, the wig, the beautiful dress and just have a good old time. I'm sure this isn't looked at as anything particularly interesting to you young folk, but I'll be 40 in a few days so I've seen some shit. So much has changed since I was a young gay person. I know it's scary right now, but you guys have so much more room to be yourselves and I hope you take advantage of that regardless of what the right wing lunatics say. Life is too short to hide and be miserable. You've got an entire family working on your behalf to make life easier and better; grab every opportunity we can give you and run a million miles with them. There are people out there who love you, you just haven't met them yet. Shit. Sorry. My dad instincts have been running rampant and I can't help but dad everyone. Okay, I'll stop...
I think we can help queer youth best, personally, by making it easier for queer kids to escape their abusive blood parents. We need to weaken parental "rights" and recognize youth rights to choose their caregivers. When I think of the effort spent begging straight parents to stop abusing their queer kids...and look around today to see how little it has paid off?
Time to stop placating the straights. Damn right we're coming to destroy the family.
It was so weird being a kid in the BuzzFeed gay era... so many of us now young adults have a weird rift between being gay and being (BuzzFeed) Gay Tm**
Francis you’re on a winning streak! Roseanne, that dating app, Mr.Birchum YAOI, and this sublime Chapelle Roan inspired look. Keep it up!
I must say, the Gia Gunn Wonky Lash™️ just adds a certain something.
Scrolled so hard to find this comment!
The "carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man" mug is hilarious and I wish I had that in my mug collection
You know, I could’ve gone my whole life without knowing what Xander Mobus looked like, but you are absolutely right
To be cringe is to be free. I think that the things described as "cringe" in this video are probably more indicative of a generation looking back and judging everyone for being so completely fooled. For buying in. For making such a fuss about human rights and then turning back around to pat Lin Manuel Miranda on his special little ass for making a musical that was not NEARLY as progressive as everyone thought it was, or whatever.
All that being said, I just found your channel and I love it. Great stuff!
Im a 45f married mom of 4 (basically boring) and I just found Chappelle Roan like 2 weeks ago and cannot stop listening to her music. I actually feel like I'm watching a supernova (pun not intended) be born. Like how people back then felt watching Elvis, they knew he was going to change music. Well I feel like that's what we are witnessing with Chappelle, like she's going to be an icon, a music changer.
2:00 "I love coining new words, it makes me feel like I've contributed to society"
> the new word being a way to call some random guy ugly for all eternity
capitolism ruins and steals everything it touches. Kristen and Jen are fantastic examples of this bc the reason they cant call it the Kristen and Jen show is bc a corporation owns the rights to their names.
Damn I didn’t know that. I just figured it was a rebrand situation.
I remember taking quizzes and they were always so obvious the answers you should give to get the results you want
Legit, I found Chappell Roan's album by pure chance just last week. It was one of those recommended artists on Spotify based on my account. I already listened to it on repeat since then and the other day I was on my couch crying listening with a can of beer. My GOD that album is powerful. Also to get back to the video, this was super interesting to think about queeriness going mainstream and still there a def view of making us suitable for capitalism. I think we hit a point now with last year with Target and now when I was at the march this past month, there has been more a shift back to niche icons, charities, and moments only the community would really understand. Overall, your channel is dope.
As a boring gay person, this video makes me feel valid.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but Marsha herself has stated many times that she joined while the riots had already started. It’s lost in history who threw the first brick (i know you didn’t say that, but many ppl believe it was marsha). She herself stated that she arrived around 2 am when the place was on fire and the riots had already started.
I don’t want to come off as a know-it-all, i’m just autistic and queer history is one of my special interests!
yes, but girlie did also actually climb a lamp post and throw a brick at a cop car. apparently she always had bricks in her handbag
Incredibly based of her to do.@@MadameCorgi
@@MadameCorgiqueen shit honestly
the chappell roan mention and the blink-and-you'll-miss it vague santana lopez mention made me subscribe
At first I thought u said u would be trying meth instead of math. Equally hazardous!
Me too. I was thinking "Oooh, this'll get interesting. And weird. Mostly weird. Probably."
Then I heard "I flunked pre-calculus", and I thought "Whaaaat? Are we doing Meth-math? Exciting! Bit of a jump from the subject, though..."
It took way, way, *waaay* too long before I realized my mistake. Glad to know I wasn't the only one. I am, however, gonna blame it on me being a Swedish biatch, even though that _definitely_ isn't the reason since my English is perfectly fine.
gurl I need to understand why I'm just now finding your channel. Your video essay is so well written and I love your overall vibe!
The algorithm gods brought me this video and now I shall binge the whole channel
I didn't expect the Stonewall movie to be brought up but fuck I was shot back to my senior year of high school where I made my final project in my US History class a scathing review of that movie.
On Prop 8: fun fact, my father was personally responsible for Prop 8 going on the main ballot, which led to its victory, and it just so happens that my dad and I are ourselves attracted to guys (stereotypical, I know). Our self loathing is genuine, though.
My wife and I genuinely laughed so hard at the cigarette butts in your hair, then remembered Mathew Shepard getting beat to death during your monologue and instantly started crying
is that a japanese poster of rocky horror in the back ? 0_0
yep
@@queencokefrancis v jealous !! love this vid also btw
Absolutely epic pfp. Great character choice right there.
@@catgod6531 jane is just like me fur real
I just had to tell you; I'm from the backwoods of Florida, about as hillbilly as it gets down here. I'm not political at all, I choose to think for myself, though obviously it's a very conservative state, especially where I live. You reach a broad audience. I really enjoy (most of) your videos and your point of view. I think you're well spoken, intelligent, unapologetic and a great creator. Keep up the great work, you've got support from all sides!
I came from the mr.birchum yaoi video, and then stayed for literally everything else, I binged all your videos and loved them! keep up with the amazing work
You as chapell roan is also kinda giving amy whinehouse and i'm here for it
I found this channel yesterday and you just gained a huge fan. I love your make up, I also love and admire how articulate and well-read you are. You know your stuff; the amount of extensive research you do is remarkable, and your interpretation of your findings and observation is on another level. I wish you were my history teacher in high school. ❤❤❤
"And we will never. Not. Get back up."
That part right there.
Brand new subscriber. I was on a John Waters binge and you came up! Very smart, so good, am catching up now. ❤
They used to use the phrase: Face for radio. Back in the day we called all this Respectability Politics and honestly that shit never worked well for the community overall. I love the term "Pick Me" that is a damn good phrase.
you are constantly reminding me of stuff that I know about but forgot about.
I found you today, and i fell in love. You're hilarious, and you cover niche topics that i haven't thought about in forever. Will continue watching.
That well-deserved read of Caitlyn Jenner scorched my eyebrows. Subscribed.
Thank you for discussing the crazy body shaming in the 90s and 00s. It was insane.
I convinced my school trip to London to go see Daniel Radcliff in Equus!! It started for the lulz but afterward we had one of the most poignant discussions of life and art post-play that has stayed with me through the years
Love how so many ppl were summoned to this channel with Birchum yaoi (me included) and just decided to chill here
Drag queens have the power of making wherever they are the best place to chill. I think it's genetic...
14:35 One time, me and Danny Rad (that's what I call him) were stuck on an island, but he wasn't dead like in that movie. He was/is however magical, but not like either of the movies you're thinking of. We'll, TLDR; Me and Danny Rad defeated the N*zis, escaped the evil scientist's island, and made sweet love on the alien space craft we commandeered while saving the entire supply of Canada's maple syrup reserve. What a magical day that was.
Daniel Radcliffe told me to leave this comment for the algorithm. Extremely helpful advice
only 4.6k subs is criminal ur vids r so good
DRACULA'S DAUGHTER MENTION!! as a note marsha p johnson did not throw the first brick at stonewall, she came over after things heated up!
the gay wage gap also could be explained that kids are expenisve. but also take more time. unless you have children from a previous relationship. parenthood is really only feasable for richer same sex couples. adoption is expensive, IVF and sperm bank is expensive. a surrogate? rightfully very expensive. it's normal that if you have kids, especially women, to work a little less hours. or stop for a few years if your income is less than daycare. which would mean more time in your career.
besides wealthier individuals having more mental space to question their identity and less of a risk to lose everything.
We reclaimed the word "queer" in the 90s, but YOU'RE DOING GREAT SWEETIE.
It wasn’t reclaimed at the same time in all places. Where I grew up, queer was primarily used in a derogatory way and was largely not considered reclaimed. This was circa 2017 in semi-rural Ohio. We knew it was reclaimed by some people online, but it wasn’t for us for a long time
@@alexreid1173 This was pre-online, though. I'm thinking mainly in terms of the political movements in the wake of the AIDS crisis years, like Queer Nation (which developed out of and alongside ACT-UP) in 1990. That was a ground zero moment for both the reclamation of the word and the tenor of the political advocacy of the time, and it carried through the decade as visibility grew and political goals were being taken seriously.
Granted, language is an ever evolving set of symbols and systems and signifiers and what-have-yous, and what's common parlance in more insider circles doesn't automatically translate to everyday conversation. Dissemination, even in the internet age, can take some time.
Some people -- of varying ages, I might add -- still find queer to be nothing *_but_* a slur, and its usage reprehensible. And you can't argue someone's feelings. But I think it's a wonderful, all-encompassing umbrella term for a wide range of folk. I certainly would never force anyone use a term they dislike, but I'll also be damned if anyone insists I stop using it because it makes _them_ uncomfortable. It's a deeply entrenched part of my identity, forged in my history, and a battle won right. So, it felt a little belittling to be told the the word "queer" was reclaimed decades after the facts of my own existence.
But I may have misread her intention, focusing on the "reclaiming" part of the sentence instead of the "we" (the act vs the era). That is, to say that the word itself hadn't already been reclaimed, but that it hadn't been reclaimed by people _her_ age until that time. If that's the case, my sincerest apologies, no harm no foul, and all that good stuff!
I remember being a kid in semi rural Canada. It was definitely a sl*r when I was a kid, people even used gay as an insult then too. That was after 2000. Years after I graduated (precovid) I was uncomfortable even hearing queer after how it was used when I was younger. I'm happy we've been able to reclaim the term as our own.
@@ursaminorjim I’m not sure exactly what she meant to imply tbh. But yeah reclaiming is something that takes awhile.
A lot of movements and culture changes start in urban areas, so rural areas tend to be the last to catch on. That’s changing a bit with better internet access, but many rural areas still had crappy internet even 10 years ago. “Gay” was a much more popular umbrella term where I grew up, but it was still only considered okay in certain contexts. I still identify better with “gay” than “queer” even though I’m bi.
I’m 100% okay with people using the term queer for themselves. My main issue, especially after moving to an urban area, was just how often I’m called queer or lumped in with the “queer community” despite never identifying with that word. I’ve been getting more used to it over the past few years, but I do wish people would be more mindful about it. I don’t think some people realize that not everyone and every place considers it 100% reclaimed and inoffensive.
@@alexreid1173You take issue being included into the community, but that’s on you. Act more cishet I guess.
If you are in the one percent--doesnt matter your status as a minority--if you are one of the ultra wealthy... you will be promoting racism, sexism, conservatism, ect.
The CEO's role is very indirect. Hard to spot. Its the store managers and regional managers who promote these things but make the company too much money for the CEOs to care. The CEOs can be like "well I'M not racist... its this one manager. I didn't know it was happening at all." then fire that manager if the media backlash forces them to. But they don't really care. They put systems in place that allow managers/region managers to hide their malpractice. That's how POC CEOs that are contributing to current issues. It's not all white men/women but it is ALL wealthy capitalist 1%.
Just discovered your channel, you really brightened my day! I love your style and your content, I can’t wait to see more from you ❤
Dear sober me, this video is not about what you thought it would be about
Love the hair cigarettes queen you stay slaying
So an interesting point that supports your theory of rich gays being more able to safely come out…
There’s been another study that showed that married straight men were more likely to be given raises and promotions compared to their single gay counterparts, especially in the time immediately following their marriage or birth of their children. Though this was inverse for most straight women who rarely get that same bump
This pride month has had the worst pinkwashing I have ever seen in regards to our queer Palestinian siblings perishing at this moment to a genocidal colonial state that paints itself as progressive.
“Tell your pets their awesome” proceeds to call me awesome 🤨
cant wait till the trans wage gap is talked about, most of us trans folx take like a10-20 percent cut on our income by coming in as out transitioned gender. some places hire trans folx at such a low payrate because we are thought of not as an average employee but a risk for reward.
having a trans worker is good in most hiring eyes for diversity but most companies consider us a "liability risk" because mistreatment of us could end in a lawsuit
they reduce our pay because they assume we are going to sue them for mistreatment, which just ends up with us being on a razor's edge because of how quickly Walmart is ready to bury their trans workers without even a warning.
annoying, I'm glad I work at a dispensary. only place I've worked that hasn't actually said or done something incredibly offensive
I’ve been binge watching these vids all day. My eyes are numb. Effin love this.
I LOVE the Chappell drag. I am obsessed with her
My dear you are a gem. I'm so glad you appeared in my recommended. I binged your videos and subscribed
You’re doing gods work thank you for both documenting and thinking through things in a way that is so thought provoking and enlightening.
I’m 34 minutes in and I’m being told my butt looks great as I’m doing wall sits, insecure about little ms cakes. Why thank you 😢 needed that.
Huge props to you for looking like Chappell Roan while still not looking like you're cosplaying. You're still Queen Coke Francis. Very good homage.
Thank gaia the algorithm brought me to your page 🤩 subscribed!
Daniel Radcliffe paid for my college education and also saved my grandmother from a tornado (probably).
As a former evangelical that who voted for W and against gay marriage; I am grateful for BuzzFeed’s “cringey” gay content. It helped normalize queer culture for me! (I was also working in the food service industry in a very blue city so buzzfeed isn’t wholly responsible 😅)
glad to see you educated yourself and joined the fun side ❤️
Marsha did probably not throw the first brick at stonewall she said this herself but i agree w the sentiment
7:16 I actually love his song that samples the other side (Red Hot) and talks about the dangers of rappers going over the line of expression towards glorifying drug use
God, I'm happy I found this channel. You're putting in words a lot of things I've only vaguely observed here. Rarely does the cultural evolution of online representation and its true real-life implications get discussed like this. It's a great summation of a the past decade or so of development and its causes.
"no cops at pride" is... I don't know. I would fear for my safety with cops there, and I would fear for my safety without cops in the presence of anti-pride protesters. And, it is sad that we have to analyze it in that way, but I don't know what else to think.
think of it this way, the reason you never see cops being violent towards fascists or anti-pride protestors is the same reason you never see Bruce Wayne and Batman together in the same room
@@queencokefrancis you're so right. im just concerned that folks who attend pride may not be able to defend themselves from the violent hatred that comes from protestors. It's like the BLM protests- the anti-protestors were the more violent people, so protestors were badly injured by both the anti-BLM AND the police. Its a scary world we live in.
The yt algorithm kindly brought me here and I am a simple person, I see my people, I click, like, engage and subscribe. I’m so happy to be here!
I could live happily without the period blood painting. *applying unsee cream all over my face*
Hi. I stumbled upon you today while struggling to work from home with a case of Strep Throat after suffering the Flu B the week before last week. As you can guess, my month has been pretty shitty.
And then I found your Ru Paul video and your Spike TV video, and now I am watching this.
I want to thank you for providing entertaining and enlightening videos. They help me carry on.
I don’t mind if this is not the “highlight comment”, but I just wanna say thanks for making my day
recently saw the Chappel Roan tiny desk concert and fell in love ^.^
it would be very cool if you made some sort of community/discord for fans id love to meet other fans of your content and humor considering how funny you are lol
funny you mention that bc I just downloaded discord a couple days ago and I’m still trying to figure out how it works
@queencokefrancis I love you my queen 👸 💖 ❤️ 💓 ♥️ 💗 👸 💖 ❤️ 💓 ♥️ 💗
@@queencokefrancis lol if you ever need help i am pretty good at discord moderation and can give you some run-downs on moderation bots, server security, and just general discord functions. i run and mod in a few servers so i've got experience with it and i love helping out
@@queencokefrancis good luck. I've been using Discord for years and I still don't know how that fucking program works! It's like they hired someone and told them, "make this shit as confusing as humanly possible and don't ever stop."
i feel like the really funny trend of editing images of ben shapiro/jordan peterson/matt walsh/etc to have pride flags and be inclusive and stuff is someone kind of similar to the mr birchum yaoi. idk if anyone else has seen those images or knows what im talking about but yeah
i was SHOCKED that you only have 5k subscribers??? absolutely subbing
It’s tripled in the last 2 weeks! 🎉
You are so refreshing and I feel like there are people out there I can relate to still. Thanks.
The birchum video also got me here but I love you so much, your outfits are spectacular
Flick in the background! 🥰 Also, omg. Im watching this after I watched your video on why you dont watch drag race (first time watching your vids) anymore! Great video, thats why I decided to watch another. You've gotten a new subscriber!🎉
Lovely video! Would you ever want to make more video essays about video games? I enjoyed watching the Final Fantasy one, so I’m eager to see more of your takes on video games that strike your fancy (though I admittedly am patiently waiting for the day I see one about any of the Bayonetta games)! I find your sense of humor pleasant and enjoy the parts of your essays where you can be more analytical. I also enjoyed seeing a fellow fujoshi take the piss out of the Birchum show and treat the wonderful fanart (and artists) so respectfully! Very grateful to have found this channel! Hope you have a wonderful day! :D
I’m not doing any more game videos for a while but you’re welcome to follow me on Twitch (where I play Bayonetta sometimes) ☺️
wait but how are we gonna call thrift shop macklemore’s hardest track when hind’s hall is RIGHT THERE
I feel like your youtube is gonna blow up really soon
I don't have an awesome Daniel Radcliffe story except everybody called my first boyfriend "Harry" as he resembled Daniel Radcliffe
i believe chappell has actually publicly stated that she’s bi adjacent, i think she’s said she’s exploring different identities such as pan and omni, i might be wrong though.
NOW WAY IT'S THE ARCH NEMESIS OF NICHE VAPORWAVE ARTIST SAINT PEPSI!?!??!?!?!?
Saint Pepsi is one of my favorite vaporwave artists lmao
@@queencokefrancis So are you into the Anarcho-Futurefunkism or the Melancho-Corpo-Vaporwavism?
Macklemores hardest song is actually Hind's Hall
I’ve been watching your videos for a few days now and you are so entertaining. Thank you for such fun content!
0:15 i had just taken a big sip of coffee and had to try so hard not to spit it out help
I genuinely laughed out loud at the Pete Buttigieg joke. I think you're my new fave. Thank you for your comment!
I was just thinking about this! How Buzzfeed made it “cool” to be gay 😂