And in that grim fact can be found insight into the necessity for devising systems of covert signs and symbols, visual codes gay people improvised in response to oppression.
Whatever blackface may have meant in 1850, its significance in 1952 was altogether different; the minstrel show was both a sign of an unquestioned racism and a tribute to a style of music created by the victims of that very racism — and to the attitudes, in response to oppression, that the music conveyed.
It's a horrible paradox that his artistry has risen to new heights of aesthetic ingenuity and originality in response to oppressions that no filmmaker should ever face.
Basically, they're two populations who mistrust Arabs, who have hankered for an ethnic homeland as a response to oppression.
In September 2007, thousands of Buddhist monks led the "saffron revolution," a series of peaceful marches in response to military oppression and a dire economic situation in Myanmar, formerly Burma.
Back in the early 1960s, communist "self-defence" groups had begun to emerge in response to political oppression after a five-year civil bloodbath from 1948 to 1953 in which at least 100,000 insurgents died.
He first won wide popularity as a writer of novels such as Sundari (1943) and Vijay Singh (1899), which dealt with subjects such as the heroism and chivalry of the Sikhs in response to the oppression of Muslim rulers and the subservience of the Hindu masses.
"We will continue striking you and targeting you in your country and abroad in response to your oppression of the people of Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and the rest of the Muslim lands that did not survive your oppression," Hamza said.
