Very good video blog from Jay Smooth that challenges the heterosexism of KC Chiefs Running Back Larry Johnson who calls one of his many haters on Twitter a "Christopher Street Boy." As Jay explains, Christopher Street in New York City was the site of the Stonewall Riots, a rebellion against police brutality experienced by queer people of color in 1969. Jay rightly disputes anything associated with queerness as weak since these folks valiantly fought off police attacks. By Johnson's logic, he might as well have called this person a "12th Street Boy" which was the location of the Great Rebellion of 1967 in Detroit, MI.
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