No Backlash=No Ray of Light

M-Tribe Team and Community member Cristian aka cristian_nyc is back with a new piece for his “‘Cause I Got Something To Say About It…“.

“The face of you… my substitute for love… my substitute for love…”

“Should I wait for you… my substitute for love… my substitute for love..”

I remember when I first heard this track. I was 20 years old, and was just “coming out”. I was blossoming into my looks, and was beginning to look at the world through very different eyes. Where once I had been told by my family, and most of society around me, that I was to be ashamed of who I was… by the time “Ray of Light” had been released, I was beginning to learn what it was like to not be afraid of being myself.

But, in hindsight, even though I loved this song, I could truly never completely relate to it. I wasn’t asking myself the big questions Madonna was exploring at the time on her album (e.g. Where do I belong in the world? What is my purpose?). Instead, I was simply experiencing a new type of happiness I hadn’t known before. This happiness lay in finally having the courage to say I was gay, and proud of it, and to tell the world to fuck themselves if they didn’t like it.

Click here or on the image below to continue reading the sixth issue of “Cause I Got Something To Say About It… brought to you by Cristian Gonzales aka cristian_nyc.