The Gay Apocalypse
Aunty (Tina Turner), ruler of apocalyptic "barter town", in pursuit of Mad Max.
The year is 2010. A mysterious virus, the product of a U.S. defense department experiment gone wrong, sweeps through the world, fatally infecting the global human population. The lone ray of hope left for humanity comes in the form of a bittersweet theory proven valid—homosexuality is biologically driven.
Miraculously, gays and lesbians survive (as well as all plant and wild animal life)due to a genetic component that makes us immune, while the heterosexual population dies quickly and painlessly in a coma induced sleep, within the span of a single month. One of the last government messages sent out to active media channels is for survivors to meet in Washington DC.
We have inherited the earth. So what the #$@& now?? What will DC look like? How will DC queers survive in the direct aftermath amid infrastructure, mental health, and basic survival issues? Will religion proliferate? What will social life, group dynamics, and political life be like? What about gay/lesbian relations? Will we procreate? Will we stay in DC? Where? If not DC, then where will we go? Will there be peace or war? Did the bisexuals and trans folk survive? The questions and possibilities are endless.
TNG wants to know what you think, so unleash your imagination, discuss the scenario with your friends, put your thoughts on paper, and send them to submit@thenewgay.net. Your submission could be a paragraph or three, or a long-form submission. We will compile your ideas over the next week and post them (anonymously) here on TNG.
3 comments:
you know, i meant to watch a bunch of gay movies out of personal curiosity, but the whole reason i wanted to write about them for the new gay was so i could publicly talk about road warrior and how gay it is. (mad max doesn't contain even a hint of how gay road warrior was going to be, and by the time thunderdome came around, the only really gay thing left was tina turner. but goddamn if road warrior isn't one of the gayest movies i've ever seen.) i realize this isn't answering your question, but i just had to say.
Read Dhalgren.
Thanks for the fun thought experiment. I'll probably run a few iterations in my head over the next couple of weeks. It will be especially fun when old, married gays in denial, as well as closeted cabinet ministers from Sri Lanka, etc., start showing up in DC after a long journey.
Step 1: Move out of this swamp.
Step 2: Acquire a stately home.
Step 3: ...
Step 4: PROFIT!
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