>Just because there was a young-old gap doesn't
>mean there wasn't a black-white-(latino) gap.
>Obviously it was generational, but it was also racial.
>
>SA
This caught my eye though.
>Latinos aged 18-29 (not strictly the same as
>'new' voters, but the closest available proxy)
>voted against Prop 8 by a 59-41 margin.
I don't know how widely known this is but one of Morrissey's biggest fan bases is Latino youth in East Los Angeles. They have Morrissey conventions out here. There's a movie even:
http://www.williamejones.com/collections/about/16/
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William E. Jones’s Is It Really So Strange?, is a brilliantly odd documentary ostensibly about the defunct English indie rock band The Smiths. Jones, a self-confessed Smiths devotee, has made what may be the most eccentric fan-boy film imaginable. His focus is on the band’s Hispanic following in Los Angelesbut the true essence of the enterprise is an expression of his own passion for both the music and the Smiths’s frontman, Morrissey. On the face of it, the appeal that a fey Manchester-raised fop of Irish ancestry would have to a Latino subculture is hard to fathom. But is it really so strange? Jones unpacks all sorts of psychosexual ambiguities and ethnographic nuances and draws a number of intriguing parallels. Highlights include conversations with members of a Smiths tribute band plus an unexpected “appearance” by Morrissey himself. A photographer friend was hired to take publicity shots of the singer and Jones tagged along. Although we don’t see footage of the encounter, pictures from the photo session are shown, enhancing the prevailing obliqueness of the project.
It’s hard to conceive of a music doc without music, but Jones has pulled it offand then some. He’s taken his zeal for a pop icon and refracted it through the lens of an ethnic culture. What makes the thing so joyfully discursive is the meeting of the director’s mind with Morrisseya near-legendary being who seems to thrive on his own ineffability. For years the singer famously claimed to be asexual and celibateeven though his appeal was patently homoerotic. Morrissey is nothing if not forever equivocal. Jones, in tackling him from multiple angles, fights fire with conceptual fire. [....]