Queerty’s Take on the SXSW Panel

How Can We Shift the Focus of Queer Media From Homophobes and Lady Gaga To Actual LGBTs?
by Daniel Villarreal

Looking around the SXSW Interactive’s first-ever LGBT panel, “Engaging the Queer Community”, [sic] I saw a shrunken pink-haired woman wearing steel-toed platform boots and green stockings walking past a large-nosed horn rimmed kid with horse teeth and acne scars, and I realized that even though we’re all adults now, we very much remain the theater fags and lunch geeks we were in high school—conflicted and sightly scared people looking for a voice. But why then are our personal stories so often trumped by the like of homophobic senators and, bless her, Lady Gaga?

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