Gay Pornographer Bruce La Bruce - First Part: From Homocore Punk to Member of the Globalist Art Elite?

A Question Asked From Chile By Historical AIDS HIV Activist Victor Hugo Robles (a.k.a. El Che De los Gays) Evidences LaBruce's Confusing Social Etiquette With Political Activism.
In his seminal Emancipated Spectator, Jacques Ranciere warned of the banalisation of social protests after the French Students Riots in 1968 in Paris. According to him, they became a passtime tolerated by governments that, I would add, give the moral confidence needed to the conservative sectors to infantilize dissent as something banal. In my almost twenty years in the UK, I saw this process to advance to a degree that dissent ended up being seen either as an identitarian attribute for social interaction (for example, to have friends akin to our ideological views) or as a symptom of some kind of pathology which origins could be found in the individual incapacity to adjust through work.

Such banalisation is not criticised but monumentalised in a series of photos that I comment with La Bruce in the First Episode of my Podcast: Everyone Thinks is Queer Except You and Me which, if you haven’t listened yet, you can find Here. An example is the one with the terrorist eroticised with the gun with the Che Guevara picture behind. I thought it was timely to include in the debate my dear friend Victor Hugo Robles, a legend in the Global South for his advocacy on behalf of HiV AIDS sufferers using techniques of performance art but without claiming artistic status which differentiates himself from his best friend Pedro Lemebel and his Mares of the Apocalypse (Chile 1990s).

The way LaBruce uses his reference to art history and, most importantly, to critical theory in order to justify his work is patchy, to say the least. For example, although he claims his work to be Situationist, he only understands their strategies in the parodic sense which he feels is convenient for his own self fashioning as both a mainstream and activist. This is evident in how difficult it is for him to talk in specific terms about activism. El Che de los Gays questions those credentials and although, LaBruce never defines himself as an activist, he does it all the time. Mistaking street protests and partying with polymorphous bodies and his believing that Latin America is a monocultural block are issues that should concern those who think otherwise. More about this and the complete post on my very complex chat with Bruce LaBruce in loveartnotopeople.org
That is why I would rate Bruce LaBruce's views as expressed in this Podcast with TWO DECOLONIAL STARS OUT OF FIVE.

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