Thoughts While Watching Hairspray....Again....

The mainstream definitely coopted our popular institutions....those things that once were sacred to us...the colored, the queer, the others....were not deemed as important or worthy of honor by the powers that be during and before the revolutions of the 1960s and 70s....The Apollo...drag balls...vogue....R&B....our pageants...our clubs, societies, cultural events and institutions.....these were dismissed by the mainstream...only to now be bought and sold with magnificent advertising campaigns.