Concert Review: BRIC CELEBRATE BROOKLYN! IT IS A PRIDE FEST!
The minute you have Fischerspooner as a headliner, you have the LGBTQ community lined up to support. It is a given for any oppressed community; we see one of our own and we show up so that they know that they are not alone. Moreover, every oppressed community wants to show their artists how less lonely their art has made them feel. Fischerspooner, Juliana Huxtable, and Xeno & Oaklander helped the crowd dance in pride.
For the sake of honesty, I am going to admit something; I cried during this BRIC! Celebrate Brooklyn Festival. Seeing everyone dance in rainbow flags, glittered make-up, and with a freedom to love that not too many spaces or moments guarantee, made me cry. When I think of LGBTQ history and how still so many spots, within our country, would have seen this blessed night of love at BRIC! as an abomination, I got teary-eyed at how far the LGBTQ community has come and needs to go. Now more than ever, every oppressed community realizes tolerance is not enough; we need to be loved.
Nobody ever lived a full life on just being tolerated. As Xeno & Oaklander started played their emoliciois electro-dance music, the stage was set: we are going to party and you are going to LIKE IT! Everybody danced, made out, and seeing little kids run around with their parents, some same-sex, made me want to run around and throw confetti and skittles at people. I was giddy because I kept on thinking; this is a space of love and BRIC! Celebrate Brooklyn did that. Then, it happened…. FISCHERSPOONER!
As Fischerspooner came out, it felt like a shiver went down everybody’s spine so as to say, “Child, THEY DO NOT PLAY!” It was like seeing a gay icons/ revolutionaries arise onto the soundstage to tell all hate mongers, “NOT TODAY SATAN!” As expected, they had fabulous choreography and political statements, but, again, this was the time, Pride Weekend, and the space, BRIC! Fest. It was an unabashed, liberal love-fest that deserved FOX News coverage (lol!). He even had signs with Pence and The Trumps’ faces and encouraged the crowd to rise, resist, and love against these people that truly believe it is moral to be so hateful. Did I also mentioned people danced THEIR ASSES OFF?!
OMG! I could not get ENOUGH of this “episode” of the BRIC! Celebrate Brooklyn Festival. It had to have been one of my fave lineups, and a surprise one because never did I consider this festival as a MUST-stop for Pride Weekend. Yet, as I have mentioned before, this series provides concerts that reflect cultures. On this night, it was an homage to the LGBTQ community, and its need to have spaces/ times where its members do not need to defend their capacity to love and be loved, but instead CELEBRATE IT! For More Information on ALL THE FREE BRIC CELEBRATE BROOKLYN SHOWS CLICK HERE.
