I’m looking for a few good militant homosexuals

I try, I really do. but sometimes just leaving well enough alone doesn’t cut it. That’s when I want to take a baseball bat to all the bumpers that say marriage is one man + one woman. That’s when I need to find a militant homosexual…

It’s harder than you think. When you google “militant homosexual” you get an incredible number of hits…all from anti-gay websites. I went to a couple. On one I found a list of 50 “gay-Jews” that were taking over the “gay movement” from the inside (I was actually quite impressed with the list making, if not the unbelievably obvious neo-Nazi overtones) then the urge to beat something to a pulp became too much. After I counted to ten and made a crank call to Dick Cheney’s hotline, I cooled down enough to look again.

Still all anti-gay sites (want a list?), but I began to find more gay people listed…militant gays. Actually just one guy, and only painted that way over time, history and misrepresentation. You know him as Michael Swift, and he wrote “Gay Manifesto” first published in 1987 in the Gay Community News out of Boston. It was then reprinted in the Congressional Record without the preface (in italics) that states it was meant to be read as satire. The first paragraph is the one that you see on every anti-gay website, publication and mass mailing. Forgive me, but since it’s been edited poorly before, I decided to put the entire article in as Swift wrote it.

This essay is an outré, madness, a tragic, cruel fantasy, an eruption of inner rage, on how the oppressed desperately dream of being the oppressor.

We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us.

Women, you cry for freedom. You say you are no longer satisfied with men; they make you unhappy. We, connoisseurs of the masculine face, the masculine physique, shall take your men from you then. We will amuse them; we will instruct them; we will embrace them when they weep. Women, you say you wish to live with each other instead of with men. Then go and be with each other. We shall give your men pleasures they have never known because we are foremost men too, and only one man knows how to truly please another man; only one man can understand the depth and feeling, the mind and body of another man.

All laws banning homosexual activity will be revoked. Instead, legislation shall be passed which engenders love between men.

All homosexuals must stand together as brothers; we must be united artistically, philosophically, socially, politically and financially. We will triumph only when we present a common face to the vicious heterosexual enemy.

If you dare to cry faggot, fairy, queer, at us, we will stab you in your cowardly hearts and defile your dead, puny bodies.

We shall write poems of the love between men; we shall stage plays in which man openly caresses man; we shall make films about the love between heroic men which will replace the cheap, superficial, sentimental, insipid, juvenile, heterosexual infatuations presently dominating your cinema screens. We shall sculpt statues of beautiful young men, of bold athletes which will be placed in your parks, your squares, your plazas. The museums of the world will be filled only with paintings of graceful, naked lads.

Our writers and artists will make love between men fashionable and de rigueur, and we will succeed because we are adept at setting styles. We will eliminate heterosexual liaisons through usage of the devices of wit and ridicule, devices which we are skilled in employing.

We will unmask the powerful homosexuals who masquerade as heterosexuals. You will be shocked and frightened when you find that your presidents and their sons, your industrialists, your senators,your mayors, your generals, your athletes, your film stars, your television personalities, your civic leaders, your priests are not the safe, familiar, bourgeois, heterosexual figures you assumed them to be. We are everywhere; we have infiltrated your ranks. Be careful when you speak of homosexuals because we are always among you; we may be sitting across the desk from you; we may be sleeping in the same bed with you.

There will be no compromises. We are not middle-class weaklings. Highly intelligent, we are the natural aristocrats of the human race, and steely-minded aristocrats never settle for less. Those who oppose us will be exiled.

We shall raise vast private armies, as Mishima did, to defeat you. We shall conquer the world because warriors inspired by and banded together by homosexual love and honor are invincible as were the ancient Greek soldiers.

The family unit-spawning ground of lies, betrayals, mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence–will be abolished. The family unit, which only dampens imagination and curbs free will, must be eliminated. Perfect boys will be conceived and grown in the genetic laboratory. They will be bonded together in communal setting, under the control and instruction of homosexual savants.

All churches who condemn us will be closed. Our only gods are handsome young men. We adhere to a cult of beauty, moral and esthetic. All that is ugly and vulgar and banal will be annihilated. Since we are alienated from middle-class heterosexual conventions, we are free to live our lives according to the dictates of the pure imagination. For us too much is not enough.

The exquisite society to emerge will be governed by an elite comprised of gay poets. One of the major requirements for a position of power in the new society of homoeroticism will be indulgence in the Greek passion. Any man contaminated with heterosexual lust will be automatically barred from a position of influence. All males who insist on remaining stupidly heterosexual will be tried in homosexual courts of justice and will become invisible men.

“We shall rewrite history, history filled and debased with your heterosexual lies and distortions. We shall portray the homosexuality of the great leaders and thinkers who have shaped the world. We will demonstrate that homosexuality and intelligence and imagination are inextricably linked, and that homosexuality is a requirement for true nobility, true beauty in a man.

“We shall be victorious because we are fueled with the ferocious bitterness of the oppressed who have been forced to play seemingly bit parts in your dumb, heterosexual shows throughout the ages. We too are capable of firing guns and manning the barricades of the ultimate revolution.

Tremble, hetero swine, when we appear before you without our masks.

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With or without the preface, as I read that, I felt the anger frustration and now…prophecy??? It definitely has an aggressive tone, but I’m shaking my head in agreement the whole time I’m reading.

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Where’s Michael now? He’s just the guy I need. I’m mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. Unfortunately the only websites that talk about him, or the militant gays or the gay agenda are the anti-gay websites, and I bet he’s not giving out an address to them. Some sites even say Michael Swift was a pseudonym for an anonomous writer, but those same sites say the world is 3600 years old and was created in 7 days, so there you have it…

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Back to the drawing board. Again I had to go to the anti-gay websites to get my information…then I quick shower with a wire brush, then to Wikipedia.

After the Ball is a book published in 1989 by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen. It argues that after the “gay liberation” phase of the ’70s and ’80s, gay rights groups should adopt more professional public relations techniques to convey their message. It was not a “private publication”, but was publicly available, having been published by Doubleday, one of the largest publishers in the world.

According to the Christian Broadcasting Network, Sears and Osten argue that After the Ball follows from “a 1988 summit of gay leaders in Warrenton, Virginia, who came together to agree on the agenda” and that “the two men [Kirk and Madsen] proposed using tactics on ‘straight‘ America that are remarkably similar to the brainwashing methods of Mao Tse-Tung’s Communist Chinese — mixed with Madison Avenue’s most persuasive selling techniques.”^[12] The article goes on to claim that films such as Brokeback Mountain are part of this “well-planned propaganda campaign”.

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Sign me up. 1988 summit of gay leaders? I had no idea. There I was trying to graduate from college and meet a nice girl to settle down with, and I missed a summit meeting.

At this point I’m beginning to think that there are no militant homosexuals out there. Or at least it was back in the 70s and 80s and now that the stigma of homosexuality might be beginning to lift there is just no need for this kind of talk.

Except on every anti-gay website I go to.

Fact is, they seem more obsessed with militants and agendas regarding homosexuality than the homosexuals. Let me think…how many times a day do I sit there and plot the overthrow of the family unit and all religious life…hmmmm…none. I will admit to getting fired up about wanting to have the same rights as everyone else. I also tend to bristle at the idea that someone says I’m going to Hell…but honestly…some of my best friends are straight. I even have a straight, married brother…there I’ve said it…it’s out now. I fraternize with breeders…what militant homosexual-want-to-be would do that?

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I’m torn between wanting to tell the anti-gay movement to keep their religion and sexual preference to themselves and I’ll do the same…and going on a regular basis to anti-gay websites to find out what kind of evil things I’ve been up to, and who to contact to do more. I’m perplexed…

Gerboortenaam

UPI.com:

Dutch invent new word for married gays

AMSTERDAM (UPI)  The Dutch Language Union has invented a new word that translates to “birthname” to accommodate married gay men who feel awkward listing their “maiden” names.
The word, geboortenaam, was invented by the union after a civil servant approached the group and explained that it could be “embarrassing” for married gay men to have to list a maiden name on forms, Radio Netherlands reported Wednesday.

“The word was needed because men who entered into a gay marriage had to fill in their ‘maiden name’ on official forms when they wanted to take on their spouse’s surname,” the language union said in its announcement.
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Felicitatie goedgeluimds!

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Same-Sex Marriage Opponents List of Rules

The three simple rules…

Rule #1: It’s OK to have family values, unless those values include the love for a gay or lesbian child.

Rule #2: Order of Morally Important Things: God, Country, then Family*  *see above rule for omissions.

Rule #3: When someone disagrees with you about morally important things (see above rule for list) use the word “betrayed” denoting a strong tone of religious fervor, and self importance.

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…and how to use them…

San Diego Mayor has a change of heart involving his lesbian daughter

From the LA Times:

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders (R) had promised to oppose same-sex marriage. Then, last fall, hours before he was supposed to veto a City Council motion supporting gay marriage, he called a news conference at which he broke into tears.

One of his daughters is gay, he said, and he just couldn’t tell her she did not have the right to get married.

The about-face stunned political observers and energized opponents of same-sex marriage who felt Sanders had betrayed them. It was only one of the twists on the path to the November ballot for Proposition 8, which, if passed, would amend the state constitution to define marriage as only between a man and a woman. Other milestones included a significant boost from ministers and an assist from an out-of-state conservative group that sent an operative to San Diego to raise money.

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Hearing This Week On Repealing Military Gay Ban

From 365gaynews:

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For the first time since it was enacted 15-years ago, a congressional hearing will be held on the impact of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the law banning openly gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans from serving in the Armed Forces. The hearing comes as a new poll shows for the first time that a majority of Americans believe gays should be allowed to serve.

The Military Personnel Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee will hold the public hearing on Wednesday. Among those scheduled to testify are U.S. Army Major General Vance Coleman (Ret.), U.S. Navy Captain Joan E. Darrah (Ret.), and former Marine Staff Sgt. Eric F. Alva.

“This hearing begins a conversation about the national security impact of losing qualified, capable service members,” said Aubrey Sarvis, Executive Director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN). “We commend Congresswoman Susan Davis (D), Chair of the Military Personnel Subcommittee, for her leadership in reviewing this obsolete law.”

Davis has introduced legislation to repeal the ban.

Gen. Coleman, who served as a Division Commander, sits on the SLDN Military Advisory Council. His decorations include the Purple Heart, Bronze Star and the Meritorious Service Medal.

Capt. Darrah’s assignments included serving as Deputy Director of the Human Resources Directorate at the Office of Naval Intelligence. A graduate of the Naval War College, she also belongs to the SLDN Military Advisory Council.

Sergeant Alva was the first American wounded in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He served in the Marine Corps for 13 years.

An ABC News/Washington Post poll released on the weekend shows that 75 percent of Americans believe LGBT people should be allowed to serve.

A similar poll taken shortly after Pres. Bill Clinton signed the law in 1993 found that only 44 percent of Americans supported the idea of letting gays serve openly. A study published by a University of California think tank earlier this month found that “allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly is unlikely to pose any significant risk to morale, good order, discipline or cohesion.”

Last month former US Sen. Sam Nunn (R), one of the principle lawmakers responsible for the passage in 1993 of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, said it is now time for Congress to revisit the law.

Under DADT two people every day are dropped from the military for being gay. In the 15 years that DADT has been in force, more than 10,000 personnel have been discharged as a result of the policy, including 800 with skills deemed ‘mission critical,’ such as pilots, combat engineers, and linguists.

The number of gay men and lesbians turned away by military recruiters is unknown.

A study conducted last year for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network concluded that the U.S. military could attract as many as 41,000 new recruits if gays and lesbians in the military were able to be open about their sexual orientation.

Lesbos locals lose attempt to ban use of the term ‘lesbian’

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Three residents of the Greek island of Lesbos have lost an attempt to ban the use of the word “lesbian” to describe gay women.

The residents argued that using the term in reference to gay women insulted their identity.

But an Athens court ruled there was no justification for their contention that they felt slighted, saying the word did not define the islanders’ identity. Greeks often refer to the island as Mytilene, after its capital.

“This is a good decision for lesbians everywhere,” Vassilis Chirdaris, lawyer for the Gay and Lesbian Union of Greece, told Reuters news agency.

The man spearheading the case, publisher Dimitris Lambrou, had claimed that international dominance of the word in its sexual context violated the human rights of the islanders – who call themselves Lesbians – and disgraces them around the world. He argued it caused daily problems to the social life of Lesbos’s inhabitants. But the court disagreed, ordering the plaintiffs to pay court expenses of 230 euros ($366), although they could appeal against the decision. (BBC)

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Tensions were high after the court’s ruling. A heated argument involving gay men and lesbians almost went too far. The subject centered around whether gay men could come to Lesbos, or if they had to run along and find their own island. Luckily the town bell tower rang 4o’clock and everyone ran off to a tea dance and half price Ouzo.