{"id":29,"date":"1997-01-18T04:30:46","date_gmt":"1997-01-18T04:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1997\/01\/18\/the_rumpus_room\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T16:42:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T21:42:44","slug":"the_rumpus_room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1997\/01\/18\/the_rumpus_room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rumpus Room Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally written in February 1994.<\/i><\/p>\n

I tend to feel<\/strong> disenfranchised, outcast, eccentric. I\u2019ve got feminist sensibilities that make me feel guilty because I\u2019m a man. I feel like my manhood is skewed because I\u2019m not a straight man, so I can\u2019t buy into the whole straight, white male cultural elite mindset. I feel alienated from the gay community because I can\u2019t fathom or play the social\/power games I see all over it, I bristle at a lot of its affectations, and can\u2019t understand its rituals and customs. I feel separated from my friends for being too weird or not weird enough. I have no lover, so I don’t feel like I belong to a cozy twosome. At work I feel too young or too powerless and impatient.<\/p>\n

My vision of the Rumpus Room . . . is to define my place, my sensibilities, my ideas. Ideally, others will respond, but this project is too personal for me to make concessions for the sake of popularity. I want to use Rumpus Room to explore my philosophy, my humor, my politics, my aesthetic, my abilities.<\/p>\n

My vision for the magazine (my marketing vision, my conceptual vision) is to give other people a chance to respond to what\u2019s in Rumpus Room<\/em>, not allow it to become so half-assed that it becomes accessible to the lowest common denominator.<\/p>\n

The rumpus room is a place to gossip, to gab, to argue, to tell jokes, to watch TV, and to play cards and stuff. It’s the rec room, the family room, the living room.<\/p>\n

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Originally written in February 1994. I tend to feel disenfranchised, outcast, eccentric. I\u2019ve got feminist sensibilities that make me feel guilty because I\u2019m a man. I feel like my manhood is skewed because I\u2019m not a straight man, so I can\u2019t buy into the whole straight, white male cultural elite mindset. I feel alienated from … Continue reading “The Rumpus Room Manifesto”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay","category-ultrahistorical","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71336,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/71336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}