WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.460 align:middle line:84% Now, as I said, this, James Bryd Jr.'s death 00:00:08.460 --> 00:00:11.790 align:middle line:84% could arguably be traced to a moment 00:00:11.790 --> 00:00:16.200 align:middle line:84% in which the masculinity of two men was called in question. 00:00:16.200 --> 00:00:18.240 align:middle line:84% And this is where I would like to offer you 00:00:18.240 --> 00:00:24.510 align:middle line:84% all a kind of a PSA, a Public Service Announcement, brought 00:00:24.510 --> 00:00:28.870 align:middle line:84% to you actually by the great Bard of our time, 00:00:28.870 --> 00:00:34.200 align:middle line:84% who has created for us a bit of linguistic technology, 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:37.920 align:middle line:84% that if it had been available to the two men 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:41.580 align:middle line:84% at the time of James Byrd Jr.'s murder, 00:00:41.580 --> 00:00:45.780 align:middle line:84% James Byrd Jr. Might be walking among us today. 00:00:45.780 --> 00:00:49.380 align:middle line:84% But alas, Lil Wayne did not make this-- 00:00:49.380 --> 00:00:50.220 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:50.220 --> 00:00:57.700 align:middle line:84% --important discovery of language and masculinity 00:00:57.700 --> 00:01:00.440 align:middle line:90% until very recent years. 00:01:00.440 --> 00:01:07.310 align:middle line:84% And this phrase, this important lifesaving phrase, 00:01:07.310 --> 00:01:10.310 align:middle line:90% is "no homo." 00:01:10.310 --> 00:01:12.590 align:middle line:90% Imagine. 00:01:12.590 --> 00:01:14.960 align:middle line:84% How many people here know what "no homo," 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:16.890 align:middle line:90% how you use "no homo?" 00:01:16.890 --> 00:01:17.390 align:middle line:90% Excellent. 00:01:17.390 --> 00:01:18.170 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:01:18.170 --> 00:01:19.820 align:middle line:84% Well, for the rest of you, "no homo" 00:01:19.820 --> 00:01:24.290 align:middle line:84% is typically used whenever a male compliments, 00:01:24.290 --> 00:01:26.780 align:middle line:90% say, another male on something. 00:01:26.780 --> 00:01:30.560 align:middle line:84% Like, yeah, man that jacket was really nice. 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:33.260 align:middle line:90% In that moment, oh, my God. 00:01:33.260 --> 00:01:35.930 align:middle line:84% The hetero male is in danger, traipsing, 00:01:35.930 --> 00:01:39.740 align:middle line:84% one might even say nancing, about the very border 00:01:39.740 --> 00:01:41.300 align:middle line:90% of gender acceptability. 00:01:41.300 --> 00:01:42.650 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:42.650 --> 00:01:45.980 align:middle line:84% And as he sashays his way along this edge, 00:01:45.980 --> 00:01:50.630 align:middle line:84% it is very possible that instead of one of your good mates 00:01:50.630 --> 00:01:52.550 align:middle line:84% sitting next to you drinking a beer, 00:01:52.550 --> 00:01:54.800 align:middle line:84% watching these kinds of things, you might 00:01:54.800 --> 00:01:59.290 align:middle line:90% be harboring a secret gay. 00:01:59.290 --> 00:02:01.953 align:middle line:90% So "no homo" is important. 00:02:01.953 --> 00:02:04.120 align:middle line:84% I like to think of it as almost like the fish symbol 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:06.700 align:middle line:84% that Christians were supposed to have used back 00:02:06.700 --> 00:02:10.479 align:middle line:84% in the day to assure the people that they were Christians 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:11.350 align:middle line:90% as well. 00:02:11.350 --> 00:02:14.440 align:middle line:84% "No homo" would then be applied, as the friends begin 00:02:14.440 --> 00:02:18.550 align:middle line:84% to recoil from the jacket-complimenting fairy. 00:02:18.550 --> 00:02:22.054 align:middle line:90% "No homo," says the man. 00:02:22.054 --> 00:02:23.050 align:middle line:90% [SIGH] 00:02:23.050 --> 00:02:24.190 align:middle line:90% Thank God. 00:02:24.190 --> 00:02:26.110 align:middle line:84% For a second, we thought you were gay. 00:02:26.110 --> 00:02:28.630 align:middle line:90% And what would that mean to us? 00:02:28.630 --> 00:02:30.490 align:middle line:84% Because it is very important, as you've 00:02:30.490 --> 00:02:35.750 align:middle line:84% seen, for the heterosexual male to protect his heterosexuality. 00:02:35.750 --> 00:02:38.410 align:middle line:84% So "No homo" is very useful because everybody 00:02:38.410 --> 00:02:42.070 align:middle line:90% ends up safe when you use that. 00:02:42.070 --> 00:02:44.530 align:middle line:90% "No Homo." 00:02:44.530 --> 00:02:48.130 align:middle line:84% "Oh, no homo no homo no homo no ho. 00:02:48.130 --> 00:02:50.095 align:middle line:90% Oh, homo no homo no homo no. 00:02:50.095 --> 00:02:52.450 align:middle line:90% Homo no homo no homo no ho. 00:02:52.450 --> 00:02:54.460 align:middle line:90% Homo no homo no homo ho. 00:02:54.460 --> 00:02:55.950 align:middle line:90% No homo no homo no homo ho. 00:02:55.950 --> 00:02:58.630 align:middle line:90% Oh no homo no homo. 00:02:58.630 --> 00:03:00.010 align:middle line:90% Like a girl toe. 00:03:00.010 --> 00:03:01.960 align:middle line:84% Wifebeater stripped like a dust jacket 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:03.565 align:middle line:90% off a remaindered book torso. 00:03:03.565 --> 00:03:05.260 align:middle line:90% Bell better. 00:03:05.260 --> 00:03:08.650 align:middle line:84% Wifebeater stripped like a dust jacket off a remaindered book, 00:03:08.650 --> 00:03:12.280 align:middle line:84% a torso belleletres that he don't want to be misread. 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:14.590 align:middle line:90% Let the bete build, bitch. 00:03:14.590 --> 00:03:15.790 align:middle line:90% Like a girl toe. 00:03:15.790 --> 00:03:17.170 align:middle line:90% Pinky swear, hot boy. 00:03:17.170 --> 00:03:17.980 align:middle line:90% No homo. 00:03:17.980 --> 00:03:19.240 align:middle line:90% A pair of crossed fingers. 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:21.670 align:middle line:84% Baby, don't let you be misunderstood. 00:03:21.670 --> 00:03:25.810 align:middle line:84% Every goon know a goblin better than a bitch, is a bitch. 00:03:25.810 --> 00:03:26.950 align:middle line:90% Sometimes niggas too? 00:03:26.950 --> 00:03:28.120 align:middle line:90% You can't man 'em--? 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:30.550 align:middle line:84% You can't stand 'em, then you-- the bullseye. 00:03:30.550 --> 00:03:31.360 align:middle line:90% Red like a girl. 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:32.420 align:middle line:90% We don't want to be red. 00:03:32.420 --> 00:03:32.920 align:middle line:90% Drop 'em! 00:03:32.920 --> 00:03:33.250 align:middle line:90% Drop 'em! 00:03:33.250 --> 00:03:33.550 align:middle line:90% Drop 'em! 00:03:33.550 --> 00:03:33.850 align:middle line:90% Drop 'em! 00:03:33.850 --> 00:03:34.180 align:middle line:90% Drop 'em! 00:03:34.180 --> 00:03:34.510 align:middle line:90% Drop 'em! 00:03:34.510 --> 00:03:34.840 align:middle line:90% Drop 'em! 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:35.140 align:middle line:90% Drop 'em! 00:03:35.140 --> 00:03:35.470 align:middle line:90% Drop 'em! 00:03:35.470 --> 00:03:35.800 align:middle line:90% Drop 'em! 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:36.300 align:middle line:90% Drop 'em! 00:03:36.300 --> 00:03:38.440 align:middle line:84% What are we looking for at the end of this rainbow? 00:03:38.440 --> 00:03:39.310 align:middle line:90% What remains? 00:03:39.310 --> 00:03:41.110 align:middle line:84% Why we got to be a low-down shame?" 00:03:41.110 --> 00:03:44.460 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:03:44.460 --> 00:03:48.000 align:middle line:90%