*This is a guest blog post from our friends at "Queer Brown Pride"

I’ve been meaning to make this post for a while, but I  have been unable to really formulate how I wanted to go about doing this.  It has a lot to do with what I’ve said in previous posts, that the racism that I’ve dealt with never came from White folks because I never really encountered White folks in my life.

My first encounter/remembrance of interactions with WP was when I was about five or six years old and went to a birthday party for my parents’ friends’ kid. I remember dropping an f-bomb while we were playing a game and being punished.

This is another one of those posts that I’m always afraid of because it forces me to re-examine myself in light of it. I was at work and, as usual, I was observing everyone just to see how they interacted with one another. I work in a food place in the Financial District of San Francisco, so I see a lot of posturing and men with very forceful personalities (it never ceases to crack me up.)

Looking at these men forced me to think about how I express my own masculinity. The thing is, I’ve never identified as ‘male’ or ‘female’. Depending on context I show both forms of expression. However, it made me think of how often I am incredibly uncomfortable with other men. I remember telling my roommate that when I see large groups of Men I get really uncomfortable and try to escape the situation because I never know how it’s going to go. But, of course, I have this incredible infatuation with dank masculinity. I mean, these men reek of it. In watching them, though, I see myself fetishizing masculinity, and in that I realized that I was attempting to masculinize myself.

Many people don’t know that there are several subcultures within LGBTQ culture. One of these subcultures is known as the “house system” or “ball culture”. The house system consists of a house “mother” and/or “father”, who may typically be either a transgender person or a Drag Queen and those whom the house mother/father “adopts” as their own “gay child/children”. The last name or surname, which is adopted by “gay children” belongs to the house mother or father. These families were created as a way for members of the LGBT community to support LGBT teens who had been disowned by family or lost housing as a result of being open about their identity. “Gay families” are most often a band of friends who find support in each other and often take the place of one’s biological family. I would like to share my experience as being a part of a “Gay/Drag Family.”

See us? We’re over there to the right of the screen. Okay, so it’s not the best cameo ever, but we’re still pretty darn excited to be featured in yet another music video. Adam and Kathy (yes, we’re on first name basis with Kathy Sledge) approached us in early 2011 about being in the music video and we were happy to participate. Who knows, maybe we’ll get some new members after people see our t-shirt. You never know. Okay, enough with the chit chat, let's watch the video!