Let Me Clarify A Few Things, Girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just some odds and ends musings on the what was viewed last evening.

In no way am I suggesting "Gone With The Wind" as a panacea for dealing with homosexuality. It worked for me, God knows, not to mention "The Wizard Of Oz," "The Song Of Bernadette," and "A Chorus Line," but my point was Tyler Clementi needed something to grab onto which would validate him. One would think his music would have been that, but, interestingly enough, the play suggests, the music, or at least the composition "Symphony Fantatstique," with its ominous, suicidal story behind it, may have been (no pun intended) another thing instrumental in his destruction. It IS Food For Thought.

One thing I have been asked a lot, is "Why Tyler Clementi?" He is not the only young suicide out there. Yet some kind of fused connection was made, or I made, between us, from day one. Why?

There are all the personal connections I have alluded to, from associations with Rutgers, to knowing what it was like to be bullied, to having known someone who not only did what Tyler did, but had been a violinist themselves.

Additionally, "Gone With The Wind" supplies another answer. You remember the scene in the hospital. Scarlett has had it, and wants to go home. But Melanie says, lookng at all the wounded about her, "No, Scarlett, I am not tired. They could all be........Ashley." Exactly how feel about so many of the young men of my generation in college and today's--they/we could all be....Tyler.

The next developments to unfold in this real life drama, and which might help the creative one, is to take place July 25. The results should be telling, to say the least.

I don't know what template might have endowed Tyler with the strength to refrain from doing what he did. I only know that if we don't help such young people to find such, through communication of encouragement, not denunciation, then we will have other Tylers on our hands.

And rest assured, The Raving Queen, with what is to come, will not allow Tyler to be dragged through the mud. If he cannot speak for himself now, then it is up to us out there to speak for him!!!!!!!! Which I intend to keep doing!!!!!!!!!

So stay tuned, girls!!!!!!! Because, as a sage once said, "for our hearts are young, and our hands are strong, and the dreamer keeps a dreamin' ages on."

See you in court, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!