Jon Sugar is my best friend and life coach. I met him in 1995 after traveling from NYC to SF on the Greyhound with a grand in my pocket and little else. I didn’t have a job or a home, but I had a new friend. As head of GAWK, Gay Artists and Writers Kollective, he stages unpredictably queer shows in the heart of the pasty Castro, and takes his friends and minions to free shows and movies around the Bay Area. He’s the most verbally gifted individual I’ve ever met, and manages to get him and a posse into events three times a week.
“Gay Type Thang” was written in ’80 and recorded in ’84. Jon says it’s the first gay rap record – who’s to contradict that? It got some college radio airplay. It speaks for itself, but a sample of the lyrics is as follows:
I’m a bastard Jew boy in the Promised Land
With a big hairy butt and a pocket full of sand
With the nuts to butts, asshole to belly
Putting crazy glue in my KY jelly
He’s keeping it real. His friend is nice enough to offer "Gay Type Thang" online (click the title of this post). Someday I’ll learn how to do that myself.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
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