Amazing little film. I lived in a mixed gay/feminist/socialist squat in Clapham in the mid to late 70's. All those discussions over plates of brown rice from the food co-op, all the direct action and protests, the flyposting and cracking open places for more squatters.....Best education imaginable, and the best of times.
It is a great wee film , and very significant in the history of ("gay") liberation as the liberation of all AND radical social transformation.....NOT what has become the desperate clamour to be allowed to join the conservative establishment - *Plea Bargaining* Please Acquit us , we can’t help ourselves we were born this way who YOU find attractive is already fixed at birth ( isn't it.....? )
Please accept us in the military forces of the state to be able to kill and die in the interests of imperialism and big business It would be an honour ( wouldn't it..... ? )
Please Let us be compulsive consumers in a commercial ghetto driven by drink , drugs and disposable sex always looking for the next fix Image is everything ( isn't it..... ? )
Please let us conform to exclusive bottom/top roles so we can imitate stereotypes we were born that way too ( weren't we..... ? )
Please Allow us to participate in the historically oppressive institution of matrimony the confinement and subservience of woman as mother - after she has "been given away" by one man , her father to another man , her husband - So we can pass as equally“normal” ( can't we.... ? )
Amazing little film. I lived in a mixed gay/feminist/socialist squat in Clapham in the mid to late 70's. All those discussions over plates of brown rice from the food co-op, all the direct action and protests, the flyposting and cracking open places for more squatters.....Best education imaginable, and the best of times.
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ReplyDeleteIt is a great wee film , and very significant in the history of ("gay") liberation as the liberation of all AND radical social transformation.....NOT what has become the desperate clamour to be allowed to join the conservative establishment -
ReplyDelete*Plea Bargaining*
Please
Acquit us , we can’t help ourselves
we were born this way
who YOU find attractive is already fixed at birth
( isn't it.....? )
Please
accept us in the military forces of the state
to be able to kill and die in the interests
of imperialism and big business
It would be an honour
( wouldn't it..... ? )
Please
Let us be compulsive consumers in a commercial ghetto
driven by drink , drugs and disposable sex
always looking for the next fix
Image is everything
( isn't it..... ? )
Please
let us conform to exclusive bottom/top roles
so we can imitate stereotypes
we were born that way too
( weren't we..... ? )
Please
Allow us to participate in the historically oppressive institution of matrimony
the confinement and subservience of woman as mother
- after she has "been given away" by one man , her father
to another man , her husband -
So we can pass as equally“normal”
( can't we.... ? )
Please , Please , Hear our Pleas
Davy Marzella
Great - thanks to all.
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