Queer Equality Revolution: PROPOSITION 00

May 3, 2009

PROPOSITION 00 - For Carrie Prejean

"they're all gonna laugh at you" - - Piper Laurie

No, not that Carrie!

This Carrie has been getting so much UNDUE attention over at The Huffington Post (of course here I go, also).

Actor, Writer Brian Normoyle wrote a satirical piece:

Gathering Storm: Miss California Trying to Redefine Traditional Breasts for the Rest of Us

- and there seems to be a little UN-balance in the comments when it comes to PERSPECTIVE. Sure, Brian poked fun at her....well...um - FUN BAGS - but the defenders-of-blobs-created-to-augment-said-FUN BAGS went nutz.

So MY thoughts:

"Hmmmm........The Queer community has endured DECADES of being called, from age BIRTH onward:

Vile, Disgusting, Immoral, Gross, Deviant, Abomination, Sick, Unnatural, Perverted, Sinful, Peda-Necro-Bestial -

- ad nauseum, which has led COUNTLESS teens (and now even 11 year olds) to commit suicide, while those of us who actually LIVE through these attacks suffer psychological distress of varying degrees. Add to that being complete SOCIAL LEPERS in the eyes of the law, which leads to unbelievable suffering when it affects your most beloved family members in times of disease and death....and some folks here are upset about a few boob jokes?

May I start a new proposition?

PROPOSITION 0 0

This amendment will take away a woman's right to do Vile, Disgusting, Immoral, Gross, Deviant, Abomination, Sick, Unnatural, Perverted, Sinful acts to her body,

LIKE ADDING FAKE BOOBS.

I'll vote on THAT one!"

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UPDATE

Brian wrote me this very nice note on FACEBOOK:

Subject: Thank you for linking to my Huffington Post article about Miss California on gaytaxprotest.blogspot.com/. Sadly, the satire and irony of the piece was lost on many of the more conservative readers. However, I'm always grateful to hear what others are saying and am particularly grateful for you taking to time to link to my piece for a wider audience.

Warmest regards,

Brian

PS: I'm SO voting for your Proposition 00. ;-)

www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-normoyle

Music and Me

I started playing the piano around age 6; finished "Teaching Little Fingers To Play" with a teacher, then was self-taught using the U.S. School of Music Home Study Course until I studied at the University of Michigan, where I was fortunate to be on scholarship. At age 10 I volunteered as the church organist for weekday Mass. My first paying gig was at 13 as the organist for Sunday Mass at St. Julian Catholic Church. My brother gave me his electric bass and amp at 13 after I played it for a few days; by 14 I was gigging in a band.

I taught music in some form (piano, theory, bass guitar) from age 20-43. During that time I was extraordinarily passionate about Piano Pedagogy, Music Learning Theory, and Early Childhood Music & Movement, and used to consider teaching young children music through the piano to be an awesome responsibility, privilege, and joy.

I earned a BM in Piano Performance in '93 from U of M, where I was OBSESSED with 20th century music. My biggest accomplishment at Michigan was performing Charles Ives’ Concord Sonata from memory; it's not virtuostic per se, but it's extraordinarily 'complex' music. At 20 I taught bass at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and performed with the W.C.C. Jazz Orchestra and Afromusicology Ensemble. I owe my ENTIRE musical life to Dr. Morris J. Lawrence, Jr., Lynne Bartholomew, and Arthur Greene.

Professional highlights include performing for President Reagan, opening for Dizzy Gillespie, and playing in the Montreux-Detroit International Jazz Festival. In 2002 I presented my one-man show "Wild About Rhythm" at local elementary schools, and owned and operated a Piano Studio from my home in Kirkland, WA between 1996-2004. I briefly had 24 piano students in 2008, until my P.T.S.D. was severely triggered on 11.05.08. In my lifetime I have performed at over 200 weddings and/or wedding receptions, but I have had to stop because the irony is LITERALLY killing me.