Stereogum just posted an interesting quote from a New York Magazine profile on Antony Hegarty, frontman of Antony and the Johnsons. In the interview, Hegarty talks about how he doesn’t like Sean Penn’s acclaimed portrayal of the title character in Milk. He said:
“It’s like blackface to me … it’s a continuing Hollywood minstrel show, co-opting queer stories and perversely building up the careers of these heterosexual bastards with the plumage of effeminacies, that they can wear this plumage of effeminacies without having to really be accountable.”
For more info and a preview of the new Antony and the Johnsons album The Crying Light, go here