OK, so I know we’re way past the stage — mostly — where you can tell that someone’s rollin’ in the lavender fagioli by their look. And I realize the whole “Christian Rock movement” has weirdly co-opted such previously “alternative” gestures as the Van Gogh Dyke crumb-catcher and Vans footwear. Thank you, Jars of Clay. But I was perusing the photos that came out of “The Call” — this horrifying mass rally of Prop 8 supporters that actually happened at San Diego’s QualComm stadium a couple weeks ago (click here for Rex Wockner’s great coverage) — and I couldn’t help thinking some things about edgy mall fashion, off-the-rack neo-christianist youth, and how a LOT of the people there must personally be familiar with “the anguish of the closet,” or, in French, le poisson en les culottes.
First, here’s the Logistics Coordinator:
Dude, you’re wearing a WHAM! shirt. Unironically.
And here’s the IT guy:
Does cream come with that twink?
And looking over the pretty awesome photos that Andres Duque took of the event to go with Wockner’s coverage, I zoomed in on a few semi-shocking characters. ….
Hipster Runoff: ur doin it rong