Lesbian Activists At Smith College Riot, Shut Down Ryan Sorba Speech On "The Born Gay Hoax"

Mass Resistance ^ | 3/29/2008 | Staff

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

"We're here, we're queer, get used to it!"

Dozens of lesbian activists at Smith College climbed in through windows and stormed the podium in a riot scene shortly after Ryan Sorba began a speech on his upcoming book, The Born Gay Hoax. The melee forced an end to the speech before a packed hall in the library on the Northhampton campus.

Uniformed police officers and a plainclothes security guard were in the room but mostly just stood and watched. Rather than take action against the rioters, the officers and a university official walked to the podium and ordered Sorba to leave the room "for his own safety."

There were no arrests and no charges of disorderly conduct. This would seem to be a clear violation of the Massachusetts' Civil Rights statutes.

Here's our exclusive footage...

[lentulusgracchus]

Sounds like they invited the guy just to set him up.

Guerrilla theater, again. Pure Saul Alinsky, so admired by Hildebeast.

[antonia]

What is particularly ironic and amusing is that many of the same people who say homosexuality is genetically determined also blame the child sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church on . . . the celibacy rules.

That is exactly right. It is not about justice but power, it's not about sex, but power. Most of Hitler's circle were gay. "Indeed, this documentary suggests that Hitler's homosexuality may have fueled his rounding up of gays; self-loathing and closeted homosexuals (Roy Cohn, for example) can certainly be among the most vigorously homophobic."

Was Hitler in closet? And if so, so what?
By Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff | April 20, 2004