[Vision Thing]

Your story reminds me of one of the most influential authors in my life: Allan Bloom. He wrote the Closing of the American Mind, which was a very socially conservative book. He bashed the flashy homosexual agenda in the book. People from Reagan to Tipper Gore praised his book.

However, for more than a decade, little did I know that Bloom himself was homosexual, and I believed he died from AIDS. At least that's the impression I got from a novella/biography about him by Saul Bellow, called Ravelstein.

[NCPAC]

I had no idea about Allan Bloom's manner of death. He was quite the social commentator in his day, to be sure. Not trying to be funny or flip, but do you think he was self-loathing? I've never read "Closing of the American Mind." Did Bloom just bash the radical gays, or did he bash homosexuality in general?

My friend has gay friends - and straight friends, male and female from both groups. A few of her gay friends are more "agenda" types - and she occasionally b*tches to me about them. She doesn't care who's straight, gay, or in-between - and has real trouble understanding why anyone else cares or insists on flashing "preference credentials."
She is truly one who believes in a live and let live philosophy - except when it comes to Democrats: Them, she bashes at every step.