Twerking in briefs with a clarinet on a pole

Because it is a gloomy day in Vancouver and there are all these depressing stories on the internet about Hong Kong refusing gay Britons the right to marry at the British Consulate, a radio host saying gays will soon be “hauling away Christians” and putting them in concentration camps, and reports of a gay man beaten at Detroit’s Pride parade over the weekend, I thought I’d skip the heaviness and post this video of a dude twerking, spinning on the pole and simultaneously playing his clarinet.

Some days, we need a reason to keep going:

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