We're here we're queer we're going to fuck your children
Privacy is a punishment
Privacy is not a reward
Publicity is a human right
Live in the light don't die by a word
Speak up
Don't put up with it
I came out upside down & they had to turn me around
if you combine two recessive personalitiesthere can be fireworks
There are dominant genes & submissive ones
We're here we're queer we're going to fuck your children
**** NOTES *** Craig Flanagin: This song dates to 1994. Like so many queers who voted for Clinton, I felt totally betrayed by the outcome of the debate about gays serving in the military. "Don't Ask - Don't Tell" What the fuck is that? The right to hide? We've had that in this country for 50 years.
This was the same year the slogan "We're here, We're queer, Get used to it" was everywhere. It seemed like "tolerance" was the aspiration of queer politics.
Queer may be a consumer focus group, but it's also more: love & sex, and it's always going to be messy and in your face.
While tolerance is necessary, being tolerated is not my ultimate political goal. I want a world where parents say "Hurray, we have a queer child - how lucky we are!"
Queers aren't going to line up and say "Thank you for letting us own property, and vote, and marry [sic], and serve in the military like 'normal' people... thank you for letting another year go by without putting us hack into concentration camps." We're going to live our lives without permission from anyone. We are your children, and we're going to fuck each other.
In a big dumb Republican country, I feel the need to point out that this song is not about the age of consent, although there's probably a good song to be written about that (or did Bronski Beat do that already?).
See also the notes for the original mix.