NEEDED: Compassion, Community, Camaradarie and Culture

Hey Darling, how are you? I am finally binge watching RuPaul's Drag Race 11. I now understand your comment regarding Evie Oddly. I am on Episode 8 and already since episode 5 I have found the contestants paranoid, exhausted and lacking effervescence. This Oddly tart has done the opposite of Silky Ganash and sucked the fun out of the work room and turned it toxic. I no longer aspire to be in RuPaul's Drag Race if it's more pain than gain, especially as it's clear after All Stars 4  the of social media backlash decides outcomes and not RuPaul. Mercedes Iman, the Somali African Princess, scared stiff of revealing she's Muslim on US National Cable TV, really had me "shook" as in "spoeked" and her saying, " people don't know how hard it is to be an immigrant in this country" as she was describing how her Islamic name had her blacklisted from flying to drag pageants in the vast United States of America. Poor Gurrl had to drive all over the East Coast. It got so bad she ended up with severe symptoms of exhaustion to the point she had a stroke. One of my cousin's died from similar condition. Luckily for Mercedes Iman she was left paralyzed on one side of her body unable to walk. I guess that's better than Drag's First Suicidal Matyr of Pageantry. The level of ignorance and social intolerance amongst young queers in RuPaul's Drag Race 11 shows worrying signs of severe anti-social pathology taking root within our Queer community. A curriculum on Queer Arts Culture and History is required beyond Drag Race's commendable efforts. Our Queer Youth may be manifesting the need for another crisis of the likes of the AIDS epidemic. For only through HIV did we learn the advocacy of TLC.
It's time we revive and renew the ethos of compassion, camaradarie, culture and community of Act Up!  The trailblazing First World Western Culture liberal socio-political culture must find a spiritual home.
Even here in the Southern most tip of Africa we are experiencing the fallout of the social ills of our Velvet Rage.
Losing knitwear designer, Soth African fashion industry's latest rising star Nicholas Couts under suspicious circumstances is a cry for help smothered in the whispered silence that echoes, reverberates and surrounds his tragic untimely death.
Sexuality is not  Personality.
Sexual Orientation is not the Community of Society.
The Struggle is real for all those of us suffering from, what I coin Post-Closet Traumatic Stress syndrome. This is well documented in the book The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
Book by Alan Downs

What we need is to be like the book by Steven Berzenaic
This is a beautiful review of its winning qualities: 
Single Forever: Stories and Insights from Gay Men | Psychology Today
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