Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: Know your lgbt history

Friday, November 13, 2009

Know your lgbt history - The Boondocks

There are times when I love the Cartoon Network show The Boondocks.

And then there are times when it makes me scratch my head in confusion.

The segments involving rapper Gagstalicious is one of those times.

This rapper has been the subject of two episodes exploring the fact that he tries to be "hardcore" while trying to hide his obvious sexual orientation.

Usually The Boondocks episodes are spot-on when it comes to parody and satire involving race relations and American culture, but in the case of the two episodes involving Gangstalicious, The Boondocks can be seen as a microcosm of how the black community deals with lgbts of color: meandering, confusing, and difficult to come to a satisfactory resolution involving places in the community

From the second episode involving Gangstalicious comes this parody of a rap video.

The only thing of note here, other than the fact that it's so obviously gay (although very few people in the episode get that point - I guess that's the joke), is how misogynistic it is:

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Please stop nit picking everything and turning it into insults to lgbt comm. If gay people are so proud and not ashamed or embarrassed by their sexuality, why spend so much time defending it. If you are comfortable with who you are, you would care less about how Hollywood depicts gays. EVERYONE gets made fun of, straits, gays, jews, fat people, Muslims, and blacks etc. its just entertainment. Ya'll are not that important. Your not the only people in the world. I'm sure you have sterotyped others. So let he who is without sin cast the first stone!!!; 10:57 PM
BlackTsunami said...: You and I both know that what you said is nonsense. More groups and folks besides gays have made grievances against Hollywood known if they feel they are being stereotyped. For example - witness the Django Unchained controversy.; 4:48 AM