WEBVTT 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 00:00:07.959 --> 00:00:11.827 somewhere over the rainbow way up high 00:00:11.827 --> 00:00:15.470 there’s a land that I heard of once in a lullaby 00:00:15.470 --> 00:00:18.456 Wake up honi, it’s called san francisco 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~ 00:00:22.974 --> 00:00:26.411 Somewhere over the rainbow Blue birds fly, 00:00:26.411 --> 00:00:30.539 Birds fly over the rainbow. Why can't, oh why can’t I? 00:00:30.539 --> 00:00:33.244 [ all ] BECAUSE YOU’RE BROWN HONEY GURL 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 00:00:37.958 --> 00:00:43.440 Rainbows are nothing but refracted white light, gay marriage activism is nothing but a temper tantrum: 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 00:00:49.868 --> 00:00:52.286 I didn’t always think this way 00:00:52.286 --> 00:00:55.364 Cuz philadelphia taught me everything i still know about shame 00:00:55.364 --> 00:00:57.740 that this queer body was something to “correct”. 00:00:57.740 --> 00:01:00.620 that looking like “a faggot with a cunt” only meant I was looking for trouble. 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 00:01:05.245 --> 00:01:09.475 They teach us marriage will finally untangle our love from our shame, 00:01:09.475 --> 00:01:11.453 will legislate us wholly human. 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, 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 00:01:21.247 --> 00:01:24.366 **DUN DUN DUN DUN** We are gathered here today 00:01:24.366 --> 00:01:25.987 for richer, for poorer. 00:01:25.987 --> 00:01:28.402 tell that to El’Jai who lost his job last year 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 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. 00:01:41.026 --> 00:01:43.116 I do not know if he won the court case, 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. 00:01:48.154 --> 00:01:51.235 **but who needs money for bread when you can eat wedding cake!** 00:01:51.235 --> 00:01:52.822 in good times and in bad 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. 00:01:58.306 --> 00:02:02.992 the NYPD chained her to a wall for 28 hours and called her a he-she 00:02:02.992 --> 00:02:04.661 **to have and to be held** 00:02:04.661 --> 00:02:07.032 **this is what marriage means for queer people!** 00:02:07.032 --> 00:02:10.254 as we send the government wedding invitations to incarcerate our love 00:02:10.254 --> 00:02:12.073 till death do us part, 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 00:02:17.198 --> 00:02:19.788 because in texas being gay is a death sentence. 00:02:19.788 --> 00:02:22.072 it is nights spent whispering secrets to open skies 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 00:02:25.988 --> 00:02:27.244 and i do, i do, 00:02:27.244 --> 00:02:30.553 i do not believe that a marriage certificate could have stopped the bullet 00:02:30.553 --> 00:02:31.178 Remember, 00:02:31.239 --> 00:02:31.895 Remember, 00:02:32.002 --> 00:02:32.607 Remember, 00:02:32.899 --> 00:02:35.035 There is something beautiful about being lied to: 00:02:35.035 --> 00:02:37.529 Rainbows are just a trick of the light, 00:02:37.529 --> 00:02:41.480 They make us forget the storm is still happening, 00:02:41.480 --> 00:02:45.812 When walking towards the end of the rainbow, it will **always move away**.