Fagbug Nation Page #4

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there soon, checking it out.

I mean I've seen a car

like this but not how

the paint job is

and stuff like that.

That makes it,

three thumbs up.

(laughter)

They thought they'd

bring this car over

so that they could drive it

while they're on vacation.

That's crazy!

I had nothing set up

in Hawaii or Alaska.

So I was trying to figure

out something to help

with the trip so I eventually

found this hotel is called

Maui Sunseeker GLBT Resort

So they're basically comp'ing

our room for five nights

in exchange for us

showing the movie.

I think that it's a

powerful message that needs

to be carried to all 50 states.

I want to join the

cause and contribute,

so here we are.

Erin had reached out

to me and asked about

coming to Maui and this

was part of her dream

to complete her tour and for

all of you that come from

the main land you know that

it takes a lot to get here.

And moving a car here

and all the headaches

that you deal with and

timing that to make sure that

we can have this date at this

theater at the same time.

It took quite a bit

of coordination.

I don't ever give

out my toy cars

because they're very

expensive to produce.

I really can't give them out but

because this is a

special opportunity,

once in a lifetime for

me to be here in Hawaii,

I'd love to give the couple ...

Who are the kids

in the audience?

Could you both come

up here real quick?

I just would love to give both

of the kids in the audience.

Thank you for your patience.

(applause)

A lei is just a formal

exchange of aloha,

of greeting, of

affection, of welcoming.

It's just like a

little token and

there's a lot deeper meaning

obviously to the native

Hawaiians and so forth.

For the lei person, I'd

consider myself a lei person

and I'm not of Hawaii

ancestry or blood.

We use it as a token of a

gift of welcome, affection.

Say, "Hey, welcome to the

island, welcome to our home."

[Erin] What do you think

of the fagbug getting laid?

Do it, do it, yeah, yeah!

[Erin] Have you ever

given a lei to a car before?

I have never

leid a car before.

He's gotten laid in a car.

(laughter)

Just seeing the way the

people initially embraced us

and welcomed us and they

made a 20 foot long

lei for her car.

[Erin] Where did you

guys get the lei from?

[Bruce] We made it.

[Erin] You made it?

[Bruce] We bought all

the individual ones and we

put them altogether so

that we'd have the colors

of the rainbow flag for it.

[Erin] That's awesome,

thanks so much, that's so fun!

[Chuck] You're so welcome.

Welcome to Hawaii!

[Sonya] I just felt like it

was just culminating

right there.

It was just a special

moment that they

they prepared for us in

advance to share with them,

so that was really nice.

They got all this put together

and brought that out today.

That was my highlight

of the day today.

[Rudy] A lot of people use the

word pride almost as if it were

a badge of honor but really

when you think about it,

pride is a lot of times

the cause of shame and the

way out of shame is humility.

I've realized that

perhaps being more humble

and not as proud is really the

best way to get out of that

whole shameful situation.

Mahu is used as a

Hawaiian word for gay.

But a mahu meant

an effeminate male.

They were raised as not

particularly as a woman

but as an effeminate male.

But in the Hawaiian culture

they were actual medicine

people or consultants

to the king and queen.

They were revered as high

in the Hawaiian court.

But as time went on,

you'll hear people go,

"Oh mahu, you f***ing mahu!"

That means basically,

it's f*ggot.

[Erin] When you were

younger and growing up,

do you remember

hearing people say,

fag and gay and

those kind of words?

I was playing a club called

the Rawhide in Los Angeles

and I found out all

the men were gay

but they looked like cowboys.

I thought it was just

a country western bar.

[Erin] So that's how

you first heard the word?

You didn't even

know gay existed?

I didn't until I

saw two men kissing.

[Erin] In 2006.

And I thought, "What the

crap is going on here?"

I didn't know!

I think in the fifth

grade there was a boy that

for whatever reason

people started to pick on,

and even though he had

been really popular.

Then they started

to pick on him.

I remember after school one

time everybody following him

and calling him a fag.

That still kind of obviously

bothers me to this day

that I sort of went

along with it all.

When I was a little

kid, I heard that word

getting tossed around a lot.

[Erin] How old were you?

I would say probably

around eight, nine.

I grew up in a rough life.

[Erin] Did anybody

ever say it to you?

Oh yeah, I've been called

(unclear) a million times.

But I love it, I'm a

fag, I'm proud to be one.

[Clayton] I'll give you

an example of something

that happened last night,

we were walking over to

the restaurant for dinner

and the two guys in front

of us were holding hands

and I'm like, "Oh gosh!"

I kind of walked

back a little bit.

I'm like, "Oh I don't want

them to think I'm gay too."

Because you can become a

victim of a crime, that easy.

[Erin] So you guys

don't walk around

holding hand hands together?

No definitely not!

And it always makes me

a little uncomfortable

being around other

gay people that do.

I don't really say anything

to them but it just makes me

feel uncomfortable because

I'm not very big and

I've had my own share of

being picked on all my life.

I got beat up a lot.

And it's nice now to

just be proud and out.

[Erin] Why do you

think some people,

especially in your

position as educators,

feel hesitant to come out?

Well it's dangerous,

it's super dangerous

'cause it could cost us our job.

But certain things you've

got to stand up for

and that was one of the

things I was willing to say,

"I'm gay and you're

going to fire me,

"then you got to fire me."

I have my masters in

education and I got certified

to teach K12 art.

In the process of getting

certified you have to do

two placements, one

at elementary level,

one in high school.

So I had the elementary

level placement first.

I was in a K through

eight school.

And in the first nine days

there were 39 antigay comments

made in the classrooms I was in.

And it came to a point where

it just had gotten so bad that I

finally just told the students,

"I'm gay and I'm not

gonna tolerate that

"in the classroom."

And within 48 hours I was

fired from my placement.

[Voiceover] I have an

eight year old boy who after

seeing her by the grocery

store wanted to know what

fag was and that

to me is an issue!

Sexual orientation,

especially in kindergarten

or first grade, shouldn't

be an idea or thought.

I used to work with kids for

eight years at churches and

one of the things one of the

pastors talked to me about

was working with kids and he

knew that I was a closet gay

and didn't want me to

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