John Waters: Coming Out Is So Square
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"I don't like men who call women fish. I hate separate lesbians who hate men...I like them better though" always kills me
I don't get it.
@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW I'm guessing he hates both BUT he likes the separatist lesbians more than the men who call women fish.
"...if you can't love your kid, don't have it cuz it'll grow up and kill us!"...*ding*...BIG THINK.
Brillant.
Hari
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Krishna
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sexobscura
I worry that you’ll will work in a office,have children,celebrate wedding anniversaries.
The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life.
I hope he lives passed 100. I hate knowing I didn’t follow his interviews more closely growing up. A true outlier.
He loves minorities who are outliers within their own minority groups!! I hope this man lives forever! The world needs John Waters!
John Waters is a true artist’s hero. Unlike the woke mob that wants to exterminate all heterosexuals, John has zero contempt for anyone, and he transcended the queer uniform to get to the juicy part of life that the straight and queer have in common, instead of dividing us. All of my straight friends loved John Waters movies until they became woke. I could never understand that. I hope woke dies like disco music.
I had horrible low self-esteem until I read John Water’s book about his prison tour. He was the only person who ever said to accentuate your flaws. I was skinny, and I never fit into the business world. I couldn’t get a date, but a few years after reading John Waters it sort of ‘clicked’ and I went to art school & wore tight fitting thrift store clothes. At one point I was dating five girls. John Waters is awesome.
Which book is that?
@@kds5895 - Great question… I don’t remember, and I just glanced at his books and I had no idea he had written so much! It was a book in a friend’s NYC apartment that I read back in 1996 on a visit, so it was most likely either “Shock Value” or ”Crackpot.” One phrase that stands out to me is John saying to lean toward your faults, or to dress toward them: “If you’re skinny, wear spandex and take diet pills.” He also discussed a tour he did of the American prison system. I’m sure both are good reads. I don’t think he published a book after them until 2003.
John Waters needs to adopt me.
Tracy.3
Back off!!
He’s mine
Calm down people. He can adopt all of us..but I'm his favorite because I'm in the Arts. Now go get daddy and me some snacks please.
"Gay is not good enough, it's a good start" I love that!
Ahahah 🤣
Coming out is beyond square. He is so right. NOBODY should have to make this big annoucement that they are gay. It shouldn't be this big dramatic thing.
+Kevin Kral LOL. I meant to type coming out is beyond square. I made sure I corrected it.
Exactly. I wish these generation Z UA-camrs would get the point already. They want to capitalize on the fact that they're attracted to the same sex.
Lol. All these coming out videos look the same. It's a puppy dog-eyes photo of them with huge typeface overlay reading "I'm... GAY." (Umm. Okay. Do you want a cookie and an appearance on the Ellen Show now?)
I am glad you see what I mean. But it's not just generation Z that makes a big deal about it. There is a clip on youtube of Sally Field talking about her gay son. At youtube it's under Sally Field Shaes Loves for her opnly gay son.
When I saw that clip it bugged me because her and Oprah were being so dramatic about it.
Fair enough, let's just remember these "Gen-Z'ers" wouldn't feel the need to make a dramatic announcement of it if Boomers and Gen Xers didn't make being gay out to be such an awful taboo thing. It may not be like that in some places anymore but I still live in a small town where my gay friend in high school regularly got harrassed while holding hands with his bf and teenagers still get sent to Pray the Gay Away camp, or whatever euphemism they're using now...conversion therapy? Homophobia's gotten better but there are still some backward-ass places in this country not to mention the world.
The only reason I came out was because my parents would be very "wtf? Where's our daughter?" If I randomly showed up after a year of not visiting, with a beard and flat chest.
This is the way my best friend was growing up. We were 5 years old and I knew he was gay. Everybody knew. He never came out or anything, he never said he was gay. Just all of the sudden we were 19 and he was dating guys. He was more popular than most. Even in a shitty small rural town, I think most people respect somebody who is unabashedly themself.
I mean, you can't come out of the closet if you never were in one.
i wish modern lgbt movements took some notes from john.
I knew that I was attracted to other people of the same gender in 1965, when I was 5.
... it didn’t stop me preferring the company of the ladies, just that they kept their clothes on.
I knew when I was around 5 too, it’s good to know that I’m not the only one who knew, on some level, at such a young age.
I don't fit the LGBTQ label, nor do I try to conform to it. When it comes to sexuality I'm much happier as a member of the IDGAF community.
That should be a quote
The best comment EVER!!!!
I love it!! Took me a minute to figure that one out.
Lol. Ironic given that the old acronym is nothing more than an attempt to be inclusive of all varieties of gender and sexual minorities.
It's not a label, dear. It's just shorthand from a time when we had to fight hard to make it possible for people like you to not give a fuck.
There needs to be a IDGAF flag
"I'm for anybody having a kid if they can love it and I'm for abortion; if you can't love your kid don't have it 'cos it will grow up and kill us."
I love that statement.
JDLupus he should have this put on a T-Shirt. The first portion could be on the front, the second half on the back. (And then in tiny letters it could say outside the quotes - either way that technically makes me pro-life.)
King of Filth after all.
Such a boring general statement
If you can't love your own children, what the fuck good are you? I am amazed how that kind of selfishness & complete lack of love is today treated as virtue. You "love" that statement? You love yourself. That's all anybody can know for sure by your words. If you are so bereft of human decency that you cannot love your own child, then never procreate. Don't punish an innocent baby who would probably be more decent than you could ever be. Sex for you is all about self-love anyway. To use the excuse that an unwanted child will grow up to be a murderer, and then to suggest that killing the child is somehow a solution is one of the most idiotic things a person could ever say. "We have to kill the innocent to prevent children from growing up & becoming killers of the innocent..." So, should everyone who ever had an abortion have been aborted themselves? Moronic. This is a world dominated by selfishness & without love. So sad.
Wow I only knew his movies but he is so intellectual and confident.
John waters didn't have to come out. His movies did it for him.
Opinunate ted especially the narration he did on pink flamingos.
I know he was doing his best imitation of a Baltimore store owner that had -in John's mind- the ultimate Baltimore accent (and vehemently refused the offer/request to narrate)...
When I first watched the film without knowing that little backstory I just remembered thinking "Awww! Listen to how young he is with his sweet wittle enthusiastic lisp!"
i kinda feel like hes channeling vincent price
Vincent Price's gay brother
Look up Waters' tribute to Price he did for Turner Classic Movies. It's beautiful. Price was Waters' childhood idol.
"Gay's not enough .... It's a good start."
Coming out is for debutantes. As well as coming.
I knew I was gay the first time I saw a grown man naked. HELLO! And I agree with John, going mainstream TOTALLY DESTROYED the lifestyle; it used to be SO MUCH more fun!
That's ridiculous. It was fun because people were escaping from the difficult to hell that was their lives. It's much easier to be gay today.
+A Boston I actually meant the nightlife, not the lifestyle.
The first time I saw a grown man naked was in an early 1980 Playboy (which also had a gay limerick, which I still recall more than 40 years later). Iggy had his dick out, and that was all rock and roll. Patti's armpit hair showing? Well, Playboy said, no wonder people threw rocks at her. I remember thinking: 'I just may need to become a lesbian separatist when I grow up.' I wasn't impressed by the hypocrisy.
i love this man. national treasure. protect at all costs.
A worldwide treasure!
OMG I love this. It's literally everything I've been saying to my friends for years now.
Morning glory?
"if you can't love your kid, don't have it cos it'll grow up and kill us" would love to see the pro-lifers faces when they hear that line lol
Iv never disagreed with any thing he ever said. And that's the truth ....
Hilarious, no one asked because they were afraid to hear the answer! HAHA thanks for being funny still
Can he be the pope, the president, the fashionable philosopher always in the mouth of anybody?
His delivery at the end cracks me up. What a wonderful man.
He's the wisest, most genuine man. I fucking love him!
He's a fking genious imo. Finally somebody who thinks like me
He supports everyone and that's great.
I'm not gay but I love this man
He was so good as the kid in Home Alone.
My philosophy is simple, no matter how conservative you are allow people to be who they are so they don't have to suffer in society from abuse or be vindicated in real life for no apparent reason. Someone's private life isn't really anyone's issue. I myself come from a quite strict traditional environment when there was a lot of "male stuff" going on and a lot of division between men and women in society. Men bonded and did all important things together while women had their own world. Even discussing important issues was sort of exclusive to men. I myself being a juvenile womanizer sometimes had this longing for a brother I never had, the best friend at the same time. Same thing with looking for a father figure outside your family if you had a failed relationship with your father. This always has to come with lots of funny stories how other people think you're gay.
I love this man! You know why? Because of what he says in this video... And everything else he has ever said... EVER!
im a straight 18yo male and i absolutely love him
a little put off he randomly used a transphobic slur :/ love the guys humor, love the films, but still, bleh.
A welcome gust of fresh air: the documentary about 'the gay voice' and does it actually exist, what does it mean, what's it all about? ROFL. Thank god it was gay dudes that made it, tongue in cheek for a laugh because in 2020...pfft, no way could anybody else make such a documentary. 2020 is one humourless, joyless, constipated year alright. Everybody is worried about being cancelled, fired from their job, charged with a 'hate speech crime' and ripped to pieces and then thrown in the trash over one perceived moral sin or another. I'd rather shame someone for an aesthetic or sartorial crime, LOL, never mind what peppery opinion they are unrepentant about broadcasting.
I had the exact same impression when I first saw Elvis. "What the hell is that?"
How about people who can't decide for themselves for different reasons? Fetuses clearly can't decide for themselves. Why would a woman give birth to a child if she knows she can't offer them a good life in any way? What if she were raped and doesn't want to have the rapist's child? So, it's ok to let her carry the child she doesn't want for 9 months and then make her go through a painful birth. You're basically saying a woman can't decide about her body while pregnant. How very thoughtful of you
"If you can't love your kid, don't have it, cause it will grow up and kill us"
This should be broadcast as a PSA ffs
Haha man do I love this man. “Abortion” “Kill it before it kills us” 😂🙈
I just love him. He seems like such a sweet, good hearted, good-humored guy! I wish he was my friend.
I am christian and that neccesarily does not make me hate gay people, i have gay friends and my girlfriends sister is lesbian, we are separated enough as human beings and the key word here. One of yhe main teachings of christianity is love thy neighbor and gays look for freedom to love, if we only thought about our similarities instead of our differences
i think being out probably means more to people who were never afforded the chance to refine their identity. i'm not about to assume John's "had it easy" but sadly not everyone is afforded his level of charisma or a level of stability/safety that nurtures those parts of themselves.
"I knew i was gay the moment i saw Elvis Presley"... I know what he means, o felt the same thing when i saw Robbie Williams' "Rock DJ"
Many severely abused children grow up to have wonderful lives. I am one of them. Who has the right to say that an innocent unborn life should be taken? A human being does not suddenly become more human when he/she can live outside of the mother. Similarly, a human being is not less human, and less worthy of being allowed to live, just because he/she is temporarily living within the mother. There is a reason that pregnant women are described as "eating for two."
"Who has the right to say that an innocent unborn life should be taken? "
the host.
For me to come out would require me to give a shit about other's opinions, which I don't.
One of the few gay celebs I can listen to without feeling lectured to or put down for being straight....and his movies are hilarious.
This dude is cool!
Why do you need to "come out? Why should you care what people think about you ?
@TheRichieRiot That's strange. i knew he was gay even when I was a kid who didn't know what gay or straight was.
'out and proud' gays to me , kinda sucked the fun out of it.....
He seems like such a nice, self assured man that is happy being himself. How awesome is that. If we could all be as comfortable with who are are we would each be happier.
Can’t say I like his movies but so refreshing hearing his opinions and points of view. Seems like a great guy and really open and honest. Saw his criterion review as well and really love listening to him and his take on movies.
John Waters is a treasure :D Always loved his attitude and him just doing what he loves. Lol I just noticed I already commented on this video 11 months prior.
It's just his magnetic personality :D
John - you are one of Americas true originals - one of a kind - love you long time!!!
John Waters is a Gay Superstar!!! At least he never was in a closet. We just want the same things. There are all sorts of closets, try to stay out as best you can!!!!🍀🍀🍀🍀🐚🍀🍀🍀🍀🐚🍀🍀🍀🍀🐚🍀🍀🍀🍀
I believe this is a very valid viewpoint, but I'm not sure I can completely agree. I'm just not sure...
OMG I feel the same way about abortion! Love him!!
I agree with everything he said.
Nowadays people are so easily offended, I love to talk about "cornholing" and watch them spin out. LOL.
God bless John Waters. His kind of fearless trailblazer seems to get fewer and fewer by passing generations. He's the Irving Thalberg of good bad taste. It broke my heart that Edie didn't live to do one more film with him; I'd dreamed of him casting Larry 'Bud' Melman as Edie's boyfriend. That could have been a riot.
No one comes out as straight
God bless this man! I've been a 2-3 on the Kinsey since I've been sexually aware, but I have only found it to have been a part of my identity for a brief moment around age 14. If I felt like that was repression, it would be a different story, but fortunately I don't have that issue. My outsider status comes from different factors entirely, likely mostly because of where I make my home.
This gentleman rocks!
I miss JW's gnarly teeth (as seen here). In recent interviews, I've noticed they are all straight and pearly white.
I love how he almost said Madonna bought her baby in Africa.
For all the 'He's right! LGBTQ2S people are so square with their 'coming out' bs".
Waters doesn't discuss the political reasons for coming out, which is that it helps tackle homophobia. Straight people tend to be less homophobic & more supportive of LGBTQ2S rights when they realize their daughter/fave actor/athlete/lovely aunt/doctor is queer.
All the queers who've come out over the years have made life easier for other queers like John Waters.
An example of bad gay movie
Bros
An example of good gay movie
To Wong foo, thanks for everything! Julie Newmar
(more of a drag movie, but better than Bros)
Yeah same, I knew I was what I was from the beginning,, why announce it? I know who I am! I just really don’t care, be whatever or don’t be, it’s whatever.
Him saying: "What gay people have to be perfect?" should be heard by a loooot of people. We are humans, we have flaws, we should embrace the flaws that make us unique.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.John 3:16
{{(remember this day! It will be brought up at Judgment day if you dont repent of your sins, and accept Jesus Christ as your only Savior)}} :)
south park made fun of the idea it becomes mainstream in the fact that gay people want to keep their own culture and be unique with that (not just like the same sex) - it was a very clever episode.
The embodiment of "live and let live"
Somehow I actually never knew John Waters was gay. Never thought about it. So that's cool.
I love that Werner Herzog didnt realize John Waters was gay for like 35 years.
I agree, and thank you for mentioning the stupid rules that are imposed on us by our community(s).
Mr John Waters. Love your work.
i cant believe this is from 12 years ago and everything hes saying is still 100% facts
My hero
He may be openly gay, but his movies have such a pansexual feel (this is coming from a pansexual).
agree
Bring back the stache period!!!
@AurateXYZ Yes that's true. But not every story of gay men is a horrible one. Thank goodness.
"Madonna's child won the lottery if you ask me"
Oh John Waters, you and your pencil-mustache rock my socks!
I Love You John Waters!!!!😍🥰😘💋♥️
When Jesus comes, his worshippers will attack him.
Wow. That was all very well said. I agree!
I'm using that for all of my pro-abortion discussions from now on. John's awesome.
When you say Elvis? I knew since I saw Paul Simon =D
Wow, dynamite closer for this clip, lol
Too funny! “Straight gay people” ha ha!
I Absolutely Love John Waters I Always Wished I Could Be His Girlfriend Lol
John Waters is amazing but he’s probably simultaneously the best and strangest person to preach “love everyone”
In an interview he said he owns pills that dyes your shit gold.
I love this, I don’t fit in anywhere, I always felt I would fit right in with the weirdos in your films 😂
Tim Blake Nelson and John Waters would make very believable brothers in an odd and hilarious movie.
I didn't have to come out. My mom finding pics of naked men in my room did that for me. She was totally cool with it, bless her heart.
I so love John waters!
what I dont understand is why do people care if their favorite director actor athlete musician etc etc is gay? or republican or a catholic or a crazy person when you like that said person because of his skills on the court or football field or the way he/she acts or directs......YOU DONT LIKE SOMEONE YOU DONT EVEN KNOW BECAUSE OF THEIR BELIEFS SEXUALITY OR POLITICS, YOU LIKE THEM BECAUSE THERE GOOD AT WHAT THEY DO AND YOU JUST HAPPEN TO LIKE THAT
Fucking understand......at all?
ffs humanity
That falls back to the view of rights. Because every stem cell in your body has the potential to develop into a clone of you; they don't, but they have the POTENTIAL. Should we protect skin cells? Labor can cause immense damage to the body of the woman, possibly even death, and no woman should be FORCED to undergo that if they do not want to. On the other hand, if they're already in labor, abortion seems a bit off, since they're already going to feel all the pain at that point.