Certified queer

The first of two postings about message-bearing t-shirts. This one is a riff on a tee that I posted about in 2022; its message is the playful 100% Certified Queer, and the label QUEER in it turns out to be a many-layered thing. The posting to come later focuses on four tees recently acquired or on their way to me soon: three with labels on them — GAY, FAIRY, PANSY — and one with gorgeous pansy flowers, the label being merely implicit. From my 5/7/22 posting “Flagging your identity”: I … have, among my various identities, one that I think that I do need to flag, for my own well-being, for the good of some of my worlds, and for the enlightenment of the outsiders: my identity as a gay man, in the larger MMS [male-male sexuality] world (I’ve been working on the flagging for about 50 years; when I started this posting [on 5/6/22] I was going about Palo Alto in rainbow pride gym shorts and one of my flagrant t-shirts — this 100% Certified Queer item: Too “political” for some contexts? The…