There’s an event happening in San Francisco (of course) called “Not Queer Enough” on June 27th. Among the speakers are people like Max Wolf Valerio & Julia Serano.
I wish I could be there.
My own feelings of being “not queer enough” I’ve mentioned at various times, usually when I’ve felt shunned at an event or gathering, or been made to feel otherwise square for being married or monogamous or heterosexual. Shoot, I’ve felt “not feminist enough” for being heterosexual & married, too.
& I’m very very certain that plenty of trans people feel “not trans enough.”
But not queer enough? What defines someone as queer? Their politics? Being visibly queer? Their worldview? Their haircut? Who they have sex with?
I don’t know. But I’d like to be in San Francisco that night to hear other people talk about their experiences.
Info about the event below the break.
“NOT QUEER ENOUGH”
An evening of readings and screenings looking at interaction between the GL and the B and the T.
From screenings of work that has been censored or rejected by the “GLBT” community as too straight, to readings from Bisexual and Transsexual writers on the shifting ground in the larger queer community, this night is relevant… and should be fun.
When: Friday, July 27th
Where: Fine Arts 101, The Coppola Theatre /Main Campus, San Francisco State University
19th and Holloway Ave
Reception: 6:00pm
Reading/ Screening: 7:00pm
THIS EVENT IS FREE.
The participant line up will include:
- Amy Larson,Founder: Chasing Amy Social Club
- Julia Serano, Author: Whipping Girl, a Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
- Gina de Vries, Bisexual and Youth Activist
- Clare Marie Myers, Masters Candidate in Creative Writing on her experience as a Bisexual Scooterist in a pack of Dykes on Bikes
- Max Valerio, Author: The Testosterone Files
- Peggy Munson, Author: Origami Striptease -Peggy’s DVD, censored at the San Francisco Public Library as “too straight”, will be screened
- Marsha Lanier, Adventures of A Former Fundamentalist: What happens when a Republican soccer mom discovers she’s bi?
- Plus a clip from Ray Rea’s film, The Sweet New, deemed “not queer” by the recent Frameline panel