1 00:00:04,083 --> 00:00:07,959 There’s no place like homo There’s no place like homo There’s no place like homo 2 00:00:07,959 --> 00:00:11,827 somewhere over the rainbow way up high 3 00:00:11,827 --> 00:00:15,470 there’s a land that I heard of once in a lullaby 4 00:00:15,470 --> 00:00:18,456 Wake up honi, it’s called san francisco 5 00:00:18,456 --> 00:00:22,974 where white bourgie bitches getting gay married but my ass ain’t got an invite sha hoo~ 6 00:00:22,974 --> 00:00:26,411 Somewhere over the rainbow Blue birds fly, 7 00:00:26,411 --> 00:00:30,539 Birds fly over the rainbow. Why can't, oh why can’t I? 8 00:00:30,539 --> 00:00:33,244 [ all ] BECAUSE YOU’RE BROWN HONEY GURL 9 00:00:33,244 --> 00:00:37,958 I’m bout to sassy gay friend this ish ~ Not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you 10 00:00:37,958 --> 00:00:43,440 Rainbows are nothing but refracted white light, gay marriage activism is nothing but a temper tantrum: 11 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:49,868 Mommy I’m going to buy an “I’m a second class citizen” American Apparel v-neck to go with my corporate internship and some ass 12 00:00:49,868 --> 00:00:52,286 I didn’t always think this way 13 00:00:52,286 --> 00:00:55,364 Cuz philadelphia taught me everything i still know about shame 14 00:00:55,364 --> 00:00:57,740 that this queer body was something to “correct”. 15 00:00:57,740 --> 00:01:00,620 that looking like “a faggot with a cunt” only meant I was looking for trouble. 16 00:01:00,620 --> 00:01:05,245 So in high school I laced my shoes with rainbows and preached the gospel of equal rights and pride 17 00:01:05,245 --> 00:01:09,475 They teach us marriage will finally untangle our love from our shame, 18 00:01:09,475 --> 00:01:11,453 will legislate us wholly human. 19 00:01:11,453 --> 00:01:16,818 But the day same sex marriage was legalized in New York, DC, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Iowa, 20 00:01:16,818 --> 00:01:21,247 **it didn’t get better** because “Somewhere over the rainbow” there’s a pot of Goldman Sachs 21 00:01:21,247 --> 00:01:24,366 **DUN DUN DUN DUN** We are gathered here today 22 00:01:24,366 --> 00:01:25,987 for richer, for poorer. 23 00:01:25,987 --> 00:01:28,402 tell that to El’Jai who lost his job last year 24 00:01:28,402 --> 00:01:34,715 He lives in one of only 12 states where you cannot legally be fired for having a body that doesn’t sit right with your heart 25 00:01:34,715 --> 00:01:41,026 but his job “could only be done by a man” and his genitals did not conform to his employers expectations. 26 00:01:41,026 --> 00:01:43,116 I do not know if he won the court case, 27 00:01:43,116 --> 00:01:48,154 only that he has a son, and that being brown and trans means being 4 times less likely to find work. 28 00:01:48,154 --> 00:01:51,235 **but who needs money for bread when you can eat wedding cake!** 29 00:01:51,235 --> 00:01:52,822 in good times and in bad 30 00:01:52,822 --> 00:01:58,306 tell that to Temmie Breslauer a trans woman from New York who was arrested for using her father’s discount subway card. 31 00:01:58,306 --> 00:02:02,992 the NYPD chained her to a wall for 28 hours and called her a he-she 32 00:02:02,992 --> 00:02:04,661 **to have and to be held** 33 00:02:04,661 --> 00:02:07,032 **this is what marriage means for queer people!** 34 00:02:07,032 --> 00:02:10,254 as we send the government wedding invitations to incarcerate our love 35 00:02:10,254 --> 00:02:12,073 till death do us part, 36 00:02:12,073 --> 00:02:17,198 tell that to asher brown who at thirteen took a gun to his head as if it was an act of patriotism 37 00:02:17,198 --> 00:02:19,788 because in texas being gay is a death sentence. 38 00:02:19,788 --> 00:02:22,072 it is nights spent whispering secrets to open skies 39 00:02:22,072 --> 00:02:25,988 it is the sound of your mother crying as she wonders how that thing came out of her 40 00:02:25,988 --> 00:02:27,244 and i do, i do, 41 00:02:27,244 --> 00:02:30,553 i do not believe that a marriage certificate could have stopped the bullet 42 00:02:30,553 --> 00:02:31,178 Remember, 43 00:02:31,239 --> 00:02:31,895 Remember, 44 00:02:32,002 --> 00:02:32,607 Remember, 45 00:02:32,899 --> 00:02:35,035 There is something beautiful about being lied to: 46 00:02:35,035 --> 00:02:37,529 Rainbows are just a trick of the light, 47 00:02:37,529 --> 00:02:41,480 They make us forget the storm is still happening, 48 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:45,812 When walking towards the end of the rainbow, it will **always move away**.