Posted on 10/15/2005 5:17:38 PM PDT by Torie
ASSIMILATION AND ITS MEANING. The End of Gay Culture Andrew Sullivan
For ... two decades, I have spent much of every summer in the small resort of Provincetown, at the tip of CapeCod. It has long attracted artists, writers, the offbeat, and the bohemian; and, for many years now, it has been to gay America what Oak Bluffs in Martha's Vineyard is to black America: a place where a separate identity essentially defines a separate place. No one bats an eye if two men walk down the street holding hands, or if a lesbian couple pecks each other on the cheek, or if a drag queen dressed as Cher careens down the main strip on a motor scooter. It's a place, in that respect, that is sui-generis. Except that it isn't anymore. As gay America has changed, so, too, has Provincetown. In a microcosm of what is happening across this country, its culture is changing.
Some of these changes are obvious. A real-estate boom has made Provincetown far more expensive than it ever was, slowly excluding poorer and younger visitors and residents. Where, once, gayness trumped class, now the reverse is true. Beautiful, renovated houses are slowly outnumbering beach shacks, once crammed with twenty-something, hand-to-mouth misfits or artists. The role of lesbians in the town's civic and cultural life has grown dramatically, as it has in the broader gay world. The faces of people dying from or struggling with aids have dwindled to an unlucky few. The number of children of gay couples has soared, and, some weeks, strollers clog the sidewalks. Bar life is not nearly as central to socializing as it once was. Men and women gather on the beach, drink coffee on the front porch of a store, or meet at the Film Festival or Spiritus Pizza.
(Excerpt) Read more at tnr.com ...
It is not limited to Wal-Mart. Just go to an airport sometimes. People dress like they do when riding the bus. . Speaking of, my son once had to ride the bus from Montgomery to Raleigh. Was that a revelation for him. A whole different world.
Those are excellent issues with which to be concerned. Yet it would be a mistake to ignore the homosexual agenda and it's attack on today's youth. And it wouldn't be very compassionate to ignore those who lead destructive lives.
If somebody wants out of the homosexual lifestyle they should have that opportunity. Instead, we have liberals writing books about other liberals in the APA about how gay activism, not science, is leading the APA.
Checkout:
Destructive Trends in Mental Health: The Well-Intentioned Path to Harm
Liberals Reveal 'Destructive Trends' in Mental Health Profession
Destructive Trends in Mental Health: The Well-Intentioned Path to Harm
Laughter, it really is the best medicine. Thanks!
50) Infer and speculate that famous historical figures were gay for two reasons: first, they are dead as a door nail, hence in no position to deny the truth and sue for libel; (page 188)
Heterosexuals who accept homosexuality as "just an alternative life style" come across to me as bleeding heart liberals. They are apparently deaf to the ravages of this unnatural behavior and to the damage I think children in a dad-dad or mom-mom will, IMO, will pay for, now and in their future.
You are absolutely correct in saying that those who have no tolerance are NOT driven by irrational bigotry. That kind of defense, along with the ludicrous accusations that heterosexuals are "afraid of" the gays, adds up to empty, false statements. I refer to readings where homosexuals accuse critical straight people of denying their tendencies toward homosexuality. As I said before, they are desperate.
So far, there are enough men and women around for heteros to hook up with. I won't go beyond that.
I view homosexuality as an aberration; it has also been described as a mental illness. The two seem to validate each other.
If gay marriage becomes legal throughout the U.S., it really will make no difference in my own life. It will greatly affect, I think, the country my grandchildren will inherit. Along with all the other destructive crap being pushed today by liberal (socialist) advocates, they will not enjoy the America we know.
Should I give a damn?
"With the growth of fundamentalism across the religious world--from Pope Benedict XVI's Vatican to Islamic fatwas and American evangelicalism"
Andrew Sullivan is no Conservative, no matter what he says. Anyone who makes the moral equivalent between the Pope, Evangelicals, and Islamo-fascism is an idiot, a fool and frankly, an A-hole
Yes it is -homosexual activist propaganda...
I didn't author that comment, use the word "turgid" to describe this piece, but I do agree that it is (Sullivan's article) turgid. As in, Sullivan goes into seductive mode about all things homosexual by pretending not to...it's the sly, misleading, and quite perverse (as in, "turgidly" so) problem that is the Sullivan personality. Next he'll write that "the gay culture invented Christmas" or something similarly self-pitying seeking and utterly distorted, in a pungent, turgid perspective of subtle manipulation into accepting the counter as truth. It isn't and never has been, nor never will be but it's amazing how many people are seduced into believing Sullivan's creepy nonsense.
"I object to any sexuality out in public. Gay, straight, animal, whatever."
Me too, but sometimes those dogs just can't help themselves....
Issues are things that magazines and newspapers create to sell their political views.
Laughter, it really is the best medicine. Thanks!
Glad to do my part:).
The amorous plants really get to me
But it's when the sexual promiscuity promotion and the like kick in, that I REALLY object
The "love that dare not speak its' name" has now become "the love that won't shut the hell up."
I don't care that "Rick likes Bill," but I do care if they go around and promote it as normal.
The amorous plants really get to me.
Some people do have to build lovenests you know.
Turgidity of prose may be in the eye of the reader. I personally found the tone "wistful", from the point of view of the writer; "alas for the poor dead days of happy faggots ambling through second-hand book shops."
Beyond that, meh...
Shouts his implacable hatred of conservative Christian belief and believers.
He would outlaw conservative Christianity if he could. The federal government may be trying to oblige him now that the House has passed hate crime legislation and the Senate is poised to follow suit. Will Bush veto the legislation? If he does it will be the first thing he has vetoed in five years.
God save this country.
Andrew Sullivan is an idiot. When I found out that he's taken out ads looking for barebacking partners, I decided not to take anything he says seriously ever again. That's right, he doesn't use condoms when he has sex, but maybe his parents should have.
hate to be a spelling police, but didn't you mis-spell casket?
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