My coworkers were watching America’s Got Talent and I caught this. This contestant is super talented and I loved this audition.

When they came on screen I immediately said, “Watch how television doesn’t know how to handle a queer person of color. Watch them fall back on the scripts and tropes of gayness they understand to try and identify him.” Kind of like they did with that performer on So You Think You Can Dance.

“You’re like this generation’s Liberace.”
”Faaaabulous.”
“You’re a strange one…you’re going to polarize audiences.”

Whatever, fuck the coded language, this is talent, this is queerness, this is a person of color. 

Posted on Thursday at 9:45pm
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  1. verylisa reblogged this from sleepydumpling and added:
    Love this video, had to stop watching once the judges started with the patronising though.
  2. sleepydumpling reblogged this from navigatethestream and added:
    “A natural little showman.”??? Fuck you Piers, fuck you and the belittling horse you rode in on. A whole lot of talent...
  3. genderfuckandsecrets reblogged this from navigatethestream
  4. navigatethestream reblogged this from euphoriaplocephalus
  5. tiltingtheframes reblogged this from atinypanda and added:
    better say yes hetero white folks! &time to bold the statement above! yay!
  6. atrialkick reblogged this from atinypanda and added:
    Sooooooooooo goood
  7. rhi-nasty reblogged this from atinypanda
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  10. atinypanda reblogged this from euphoriaplocephalus
  11. euphoriaplocephalus reblogged this from costumepartypolitics and added:
    He was fabulous!
  12. cynicalpet reblogged this from costumepartypolitics
  13. poison-and-wineee reblogged this from subtextinbohemia
  14. subtextinbohemia reblogged this from thatfunnygirllauren and added:
    omg his face after he says “the fierceness” tho
  15. spunxter reblogged this from fytastetherainbow and added:
    “It’s called the fierceness!”
  16. leznbtween reblogged this from fytastetherainbow
  17. fytastetherainbow reblogged this from queerandpresentdanger
  18. greenbrowngirl reblogged this from queerandpresentdanger and added:
    If I was a man. This would be me.
  19. queerandpresentdanger reblogged this from costumepartypolitics
  20. delladilly reblogged this from neverwillstop and added:
    “From the moment you walk onstage, you’re like a show.” “You’ve got that… sashay.” “[Like Liberace] you’ve got that same...
  21. afgham said: holy shit, dude can sing!
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