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In her editorial [“Who’s Queer for the best vantage point to hear, view Maybe I looked in the wrong places, Now?” Xtra #542, June 5], EDITORIAL Robin Perelle seems to suggest NATASHA and provide running commentary on but I found no follow-up stories or edi- BARSOTTI the unfolding theatre of the day. torials in the island’s media condemn- that the opposition to the term I use “theatre” deliberately, because ing the “no lipstick” crowd’s actions. queer comes from a minority The crime? A “homo- even in the midst of their outrage, No expression of disgust, however of angry gay men, especially sexual” allegedly applying or wearing laughter and remarks are bandied back empty, from the minister of justice, nor older gay men. While age and lipstick in public. It might even have and forth among the spectators, dem- from the prime minister, who can’t or gender appear to play a role in been lip balm for all we know. onstrating a profound lack of concern won’t give “a timeline” for her plan to this opposition, permit me to The details didn’t seem to matter to for the terror they are unleashing. address the buggery law. offer a different interpretation. the incensed people who chased him In a way, the level of aggression and Lest we forget, gay Torontonians — The opposition to the term In our last issue, we misidentified into a store in a southern Jamaican violence that is prevalent in countries who just hosted the world for Pride queer comes from mature gay men because they are reasonably content Laurie McDonald (centre) in this parish and held him under siege for like Jamaica and my own, Trinidad, — have been in the same boat as that Xposed photo from the Empress Ball. more than an hour. where the murder rate is staggering, still-nameless lipstick man who fled with their lives. They’re pleased with Xtra regrets the error. the amazing progress and acceptance As I watched the TV Jamaica report, provides an apt backdrop to what went his tormentors. and gay liberation [“Lessons from the they’ve seen in their lifetimes, they’ve I almost forgot about the man holed up down in that carpark. In October 1980, Xtra’s predecessor, Parti Québécois,” Xtra 539, April 24], survived the worst ravages of the AIDS in his refuge, so entranced did I become Not to draw a glib connection be- The Body Politic, carried an editorial I think that the gay liberation move- epidemic, and most want to live quietly with the mass of people so willing and tween a homophobic siege and the on the annual siege of Toronto’s gay ment has a far greater responsibility but openly with their partners, friends, eager to hold him hostage. They clam- murderous violence that’s a byproduct St Charles Tavern, where thousands of in the world.