#glad you're happy wearing a rhinestone mesh tank top! but that dude up there wearing ratty jeans and a tshirt is just as queer!

[mybrainproblems]

Something that I find cool about Orville Peck shows is you do get a pretty broad sampling of what being queer "looks like" and it's so fun! And I love seeing the super flamboyant and Out folks and then the ones more like me who you probably wouldn't peg for being some flavor(s) of queer.

But I also very briefly got what was honestly a good (tho sad) reminder of how much intracommunity identity policing there is and that it's not just the terminally online. It was a little heartbreaking to have a flamboyant old southern queen lean over and ask why one artist was even there and "was he even gay?" and it just really hurt that this was an artist who looked so "normal" and was probably one of the most emotionally raw artists of the whole night. That he was singing about a complicated type of queerness that is quiet and not about aesthetic presentation but that queerness is in his lyrics.

Idk it's like. I love Peck shows for how much everyone is loudly and unapologetically queer but jfc did that one artist speak to me in that the queerness is there, but so's a lot of other shit.