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Issues of central concern to queer-identified people in communities of color came up in your article on Spectrum (Oct. 24), and I would like to comment on some of those issues. While I understand that reporting always has to simplify in some sense, I do want to emphasize that what Spectrum intends to address is a complex issue and merits some clarification...
First, one of the guiding tenets of Spectrum is the conviction that there are unique circumstances in communities of color that do not mix well with the model of coming out and assuming a public gay identity...
...transformation devastated Baltimore's schools--a result not of the change in color but of the poverty that came with it. By the 1980s, even the black middle class had begun leaving the city. Declining enrollment and an accelerating middle-class flight distilled the city's school population to the point where today more than 70% of students qualify for a free lunch, a standard marker of poverty. Nearly 35% of the city's pupils are absent more than 20 days a year, triple the rate in suburban Baltimore County. Fewer than half the city's ninth-graders passed...
...then, Rauschenberg had stopped making his work from actual objects and was using overlays of silk-screened photos, an idea he got from Andy Warhol. The paintings--like Estate, 1963--that won him the grand prize at the 1964 Venice Biennale, with their high, bright color and rapid shuttle of images, conveyed an extraordinary impression of the electronic image glut that comes from TV. Through silk screen, Rauschenberg could now compress fragments of events as well as things into his work, giving it a heightened, broken-up documentary flavor--history painting for channel surfers...
Morris beautifully orchestrates the four stories (helped by Caleb Sampson's music, which gaily purloins motifs from Nino Rota and Philip Glass). The film blends interview and location footage with clips from old movies and Super 8, black and white and color. As the styles merge, so do the stories. The real lions, the leaf elephants, the robot insects and the insectoid rodents overlap, abut, merge in a gorgeous fugue of hard work and abiding love. This is a funny, thrilling tribute to people's urge to find play and profundity in the work they...