{"id":458,"date":"2001-06-06T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-06T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/06\/06\/homo_schlock\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T09:33:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:33:50","slug":"homo_schlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/06\/06\/homo_schlock\/","title":{"rendered":"Homo Schlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"PlanetOut: Marketing to the Masses\" href=\"htttp:\/\/www.planetout.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/mirrorball.jpg\" alt=\"A must for any proud queer\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" \/><\/a><strong>I beg to differ.<\/strong> In fact, I\u2019d say that a god-damned rainbow mirrorball is enough of a hypercaricature to be the sole indicator of someone so desperate to have an identity that he\u2019d buy one lock, stock, and barrel from a catalogue of homosexual schlock. (It could be a she. I don\u2019t want to suggest that lesbians are immune to this sort of tragic kitsch.) Jesus, decades of fighting for public acceptance gets us this? Doesn\u2019t anyone see that this is as bad as a Catholic with a life-size velvet painting of the Pope?<\/p>\n<p>You wanna show your pride? You wanna be out of the closet? Hold a guy\u2019s hand in public. Tell the fella in the mailroom he\u2019s got a hot ass. Ask if your boyfriend can be covered under your health insurance. Just be yourself \u2014 I bet you\u2019re not as truly straight-acting as you think you are. And that\u2019s not a problem <i>at all.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I beg to differ. In fact, I\u2019d say that a god-damned rainbow mirrorball is enough of a hypercaricature to be the sole indicator of someone so desperate to have an identity that he\u2019d buy one lock, stock, and barrel from a catalogue of homosexual schlock. (It could be a she. I don\u2019t want to suggest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/06\/06\/homo_schlock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homo Schlock&#8221;<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","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=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71765,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/71765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}