Here & Hereafter 1

1.  The Individual Anthem
2.  How Fags Deal With Death
3.  The Fag's Final Moments
4.  The Emptiness Of Fagland   
5.  The Deathwalk
6.  Fags And Dignity
7.  Who's Gonna Remember Me..?

Back in 2008, a German TV station became the world's first to specialize in death. For a fee, it broadcasts video obituaries of one's friends and relatives so that their lives may be celebrated on satellite TV. In addition, there are documentaries about death and bereavement as well as hymns. It's a brave concept. Even with a rapidly ageing populations death is such a taboo.

1.   The Individual Anthem

1.  Speaking of hymns, fags have their own too. Fags belt out Broadway show tunes, sing torchsongs or gyrate to the latest dance anthem club mix from the hottest DJ. But...how many fags have an individual anthem for their lives?  

2.  In some African village societies, when a woman gets pregnant, she composes a song for the child she’s carrying. She sings it to the child throughout the pregnancy and teaches it to the other villagers. They gather around and sing that song when the child is born – it’s one of the first sounds the child hears as they enter the world. During childhood, the child is taught to sing for themselves their special song. Their song is performed by the village during milestones of the child’s life. As the child grows older and becomes an adult, they sing that special song to themselves in moments of fear and despair as a reminder of their uniqueness and of the love that surrounds them.  

3. When they’re dying, the entire village, steeped in a history of oral tradition, recollects that person's accomplishments and the milestones of their life. The village gathers around the deathbed and sings that individual’s special song. It’s one of the last sounds the person hears as they leave this world. 

2.   How Fags Deal With Death

Fags deal with death in 3 ways:

(1)   death is seen as an accusation, a laying of blame, a bureaucratic failure that jacked the statistics of fatalities in a marginalized sub-culture e.g. political ineptitude, lack of funding, lack of hospice care, lack of “safe” sex, "a hate crime", or the fag cheated on someone, or deliberately infected people in the past  and now got what he deserved.  

(2)  death is seen as a Politically Correct decorative event with the publicity, the politicians, the celebs and the photo ops.  On cue fags burn candles, wear lapel pins, hang banners, unveil plaques, throw glitzy charity benefits.  

(3)   death is seen as the inevitable result of a ghetto-steeped, less than stellar lifestyle, which ended prematurely or predictably.  

3.   The Fag's Final Moments

1.  The fag dies. If he’s lucky, some of his adopted “social family” will be there in his final moments, a few tears will be shed. He turns cold. They hold a funeral and maybe a memorial. The “family” grieves. The act of death is final. Life goes on and back they go to the clubs, the bars, the drugs. 

4.   The Emptiness of Fagland

1.  For all its diversions, (clubbing, gym, porn surfing, online chatting, drugging, overdosing, shopping, cruising, happy-houring, after-partying, whoring, hustling, thieving, borrowing, going broke, back stabbing) Fagland contains nothing as an empowering rite of passage. Getting fucked bareback in the alley behind the dumpster doesn't count, neither does that blowjob in the stairwell of that building. It’s one large amusement park 24/7 where everybody is - and is on - a joyride. No wonder Fagland is stuffed with chronic under-achievers. 

2.  Other than last year's fashion, clubbing and optional gym classes, there's nothing now in Fagland that serve as milestones of accomplishments in a fag’s life.  For all the crowing in Lamestream Gay Media, there’s little sense on a daily basis of legacy, individual or collective, that transcends the present rush for hedonism.  

3.  Yes, we know all about Stonewall, Harvey Milk, which saunas were closed down or burnt down, the gay singers who drugged or fucked themselves to death, the closet cases, the gay men who were arrested, tortured and executed, the gay writers and composers, quality gay cinema, gays serving in the military.  We've watched all this politically correct wailing about the "need for equality" via gay marriage (which at the end of the day was only about money)  We've already pointed out that the farther gays stay from the concept of "marriage", and all the religious bias it bring to the table, the better.  Civil Union is the way to go.  Separate but equal.  Try telling that to a fag looking to hitch a ride on a political bandwagon.  We agree, some of these events are milestones.....but what's happening now...?

4.  And now we're watching the startling ascendancy of Politically Correct, near-militant Faggotry and the imposition of minority diktat on society.  What started out 40 years ago as a quest for individual freedom, self-expression and respect, has morphed into near-totalitarian suppression of an alternative or dissenting view on Faggotry.  Is THAT the legacy an independently thinking gay man should be accepting..?

5.  So......the dead fag becomes another statistic. His friends clean out the apartment and send his stuff back to his Mom or his sister. They share some of his stuffed toys, divide the porn collection, chuck out the dildos and the stained underwear, quietly pick up the laptop (the less his family knows what's on his hard drive, the better).  Should somebody tell that BF who shows up once a week........?  What's his name again.....?

6.  The landlord rents out the place to someone else.  

COMING UP IN PART 2:
5.  The Deathwalk
6.  Fags And Dignity
7.  Who's Gonna Remember Me..?

Originally published 20 December 2007.  
Amended and republished 31 January 2012 | 7 January 2014 | 25 December 2017


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