skinny dipping, slipping, sliding

johnathan wilde, corey price, kieran vanity, and axel parker.

johnathan is the frontman and he's not british but sings in a really forced british accent. he's also on bass.

corey is on synth + actually british and does background vocals for johnathan sometimes. probably the last to join the band. him and johnathan have a yaoi fanbase.

kieran is the songwriter and drummer he's also whose idea it was to start the band in the first place which is why it's named savvan/saving vanity. he's wallet guy's kid and he's nonverbal.

johnathan wilde back in 1985 being told that his faggy band just got into the hill valley battle of the bands:

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.