Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Crip Dyke's avatar

Speaking of Mike Johnson's queasy belly rumblings at the thought of 2 gym bunnies holding hands at Applebee's I am reminded of just how transgressive Pete Shelley's anthem Homosapien was in the 80s. I mean, it **still is** radical and in your face and a terror to the right wing 40 years later. We are 2 generations of human life past the day BBC banned it and 34% of the USA still freaks out at the mere existence of QTs right alongside their theocratic Speaker.

If it was up to me, I'd be standing on the sidewalk outside Johnson's house blasting this from a boom box over my head until Kelly pokes her head out the 2nd story window, giggles and then runs past Mike telling him she never really believed in heterosexuality anyway as she vaults through the front door.

I'm the cruiser. You're the loser.

Can't say much about you, sir,

Cept maybe

You're homosapien too.

Take your skin off

and are you homosapien too?

All the gods in the sky way up high

see the world spinning 'round

But the sun and the moon and the stars

are so far from the ground

And the world is so wrong

that I hope that I'll be

strong enough

For we are each on our own

the only hate-killer known

is just love

Don't try to classify us

like we're animals in the zoo

I'd like you to try, stop the lie,

and be homosapien too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JdWayrLXUs

Expand full comment
889 more comments...

No posts