Homophobic styles: H8sterz -- the new hipsters?OK, so I know we're way past the stage -- mostly -- where you can tell that someone's rollin' in the lavender fagioli by their look. And I realize the whole "Christian Rock movement" has weirdly co-opted such previously "alternative" gestures as the Van Gogh Dyke crumb-catcher and Vans footwear. Thank you, Jars of Clay. But I was perusing the photos that came out of "The Call" -- this horrifying mass rally of Prop 8 supporters that actually happened at San Diego's QualComm stadium a couple weeks ago (click here for Rex Wockner's great coverage) -- and I couldn't help thinking some things about edgy mall fashion, off-the-rack neo-christianist youth, and how a LOT of the people there must personally be familiar with "the anguish of the closet," or, in French, le poisson en les culottes.
First, here's the Logistics Coordinator:
Dude, you're wearing a WHAM! shirt. Unironically.
And here's the IT guy:
Does cream come with that twink?
And looking over the pretty awesome photos that Andres Duque took of the event to go with Wockner's coverage, I zoomed in on a few semi-shocking characters. ....
Hipster Runoff: ur doin it rong
Hate iz HOTTT! See you in Uragay, mister
Surfin' the bleach-camo waves o' bigotry. Bonus: Kabbalah beads!
ZOMG -- total bear-boy love waiting to explode
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Comments (4)
i want them inside of me.
Posted by brock | November 10, 2008 07:41 PM
Wait, that wasn't a report on a circuit party? Shucks.
Posted by Chris Rusak | November 10, 2008 08:00 PM
The locker rooms at that thing totally gave me herpes. It was kinda worth it, coach.
Posted by Jacob | November 10, 2008 08:21 PM
if it wasn't for the looming sports stadium in the background, i could've sworn it was the castro street fair!
Posted by anthony | November 24, 2008 02:33 PM