The Velvet Snatch - "Healing" - Drag Performance for Northern Pride 2020

"Healing" Performance for Northern Pride 2020

Happy Northern Pride everyone! I was honoured to be asked to record a performance for Northern Pride UK and I'm really happy to be able to share this performance with you all.
As a bit of background, as someone that grew up in England under the shadow of Clause 28 and the AIDS crisis, I can't emphasise enough how it really shattered the fight for LGBT rights and all the progress those that came before us had made. When we talk about Stonewall and all the momentum the community had built up and the cultural progress we'd witnessed in places such as San Francisco, all this came to a shuddering halt, and for the 80s and 90s especially, gay people and by proxy lesbians were reinforced as this terrible "other". Measures such as the infamous Clause 28 "not to promote or dare speak of homosexuality in schools" were brought in as a response to the ensuing media attack the gay community, and I wonder how much easier my childhood and emotional state would have been without this constant onslaught of "gay is bad" that every child of my generation had to survive through. So this performance is kind of a celebration of where we were and how we as a community have managed to heal from the greatest setback and its repercussions and are able to continue to expand our fight for those that are still facing injustice and just really having a bit of a crap time of things.

Music
Blondie - War Child https://www.youtube.com/user/BlondieMusicOfficial
Erasure - Still It's Not Over https://www.youtube.com/user/erasureinfo
Erasure - Just A Little Love https://www.youtube.com/user/erasureinfo

Video / Additional Audio Sources (in no particular order)
"Stonewall Forever - A Documentary about the Past, Present and Future of Pride" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjRv7dJTync
"Sylvia Rivera Y'all better quiet down 1973" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YltBxtMTLpY
"When Freddie Mercury Met Kenny Everett (6/6)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C8GMNDPO-0
"Northern Pride 2019 / Day Two / Official Video" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0f7gnvaeVM
"Northern Pride 2019 / Day Two / The Parade" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffE9lmqLAhw
"Pride in London 2019" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gpkn6DnJuQ
"Brides Celebrate Northern Ireland’s First Ever Same-Sex Wedding | NBC News" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E6Np6mBaS4
"First gay marriages take place in England, Wales" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr5SNP_ri04
"Ireland votes to legalize same-sex marriage" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDtiDOPX7Ec
"Radical AIDS Activist Group ACT UP | Flashback | NBC Out" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-QWSbaeGL0
"Aids Epidemic in San Francisco" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWBLk47qdKM
"1985: The Aids Virus: Patient Zero | In times of Coronavirus - how were we fighting other viruses" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58H72VgvzrY
"Whatever Happened To The Plague? Part 1 (1999 Documentary) - Jenny Barraclough" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE0-JKQZ_1U
"PROGRESS has been made in the Gay Community" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU5IO88nF5o
"What is Section 28?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29kf0iL8Vfs

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#drag #drag_queen #pride #lgbt+ #aids #hiv #stonewall #gay_rights #gay

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