Posted on 09/10/2008 3:37:46 PM PDT by wagglebee
LONDON, September 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A British homosexual journalist admits that his documentary on the London gay scene is likely to "burn every bridge in the gay world I've got."
Simon Fanshawe is a writer and broadcaster who created the documentary "The Trouble With Gay Men" after becoming increasingly alarmed at the shallowness and destructiveness of the "gay lifestyle." The film, made for BBC 3 television, questions the emotional and psychological immaturity, narcissism, nihilism and self-destructive tendencies of many in the homosexual community. Fanshawe says he wants homosexual men to "grow up" and get beyond their state of "extended adolescence."
Fanshawe, who was involved in the early homosexualist political movement, says, "We've fought discrimination and prejudice, only to wreck ourselves with drugs and wild sex."
In his documentary Fanshawe admits that the homosexualist movement has in the main achieved its political goals of equalising homosexuality with natural sexual relations, in abolishing laws against sodomy and creating legal equivalency with marriage and adoption. Given these achievements, Fanshawe asks, "Why do we seem hell bent on behaving like eternal teenagers?"
"We're hooked on vanity, and regard older men with contempt. Despite AIDS we're still chasing the ultimate sexual high and what's more are determined to wreck ourselves on designer drugs. We're happy to assist the straight world in keeping alive the image of all gay men as limp-wristed queens."
He says that he has recently "started to worry" about the ways in which "gay liberation is celebrated" in his hometown of Brighton, a major centre of the homosexual subculture. At the annual "Mr. Gay" beauty pageant, which he describes as a "pathetic display of self-delusion", Fanshawe tells a contestant, "I'm old enough to remember when all those women were fighting against Miss World...What we're all saying about ourselves is that actually to be really gay, properly gay, what you've got to be is cute, and young."
"Extreme vanity" he says, has been "sewn into gay culture." It "is now so mainstream in the gay community that otherwise intelligent young men are happy to be treated as sex objects on a demeaning meat rack."
Gay men, he says, are so "hardwired" towards finding casual sexual encounters, some going as far as plastic implants to enhance their appearance, that finding genuine intimacy is "practically impossible."
"Vast amounts of our leisure time are organised around sex, straight or gay. But what gay men have done is organise our identity around sex. And that is corrosive. And to make things worse, promiscuity has become the norm."
The documentarian asks the proprietor of a gay sex bath house, "Paul", who had just related some graphic stories of group sexual encounters in the establishment, "Are we just swimming around in a sewer which we're just sort of saying is normal?"
For objecting to the lifestyle of pursuing casual and "extreme" sex and for holding genuine human intimacy as a goal, Paul told Fanshawe that he is "the closest thing to a straight person in a gay man's body I have ever met. There should be an operation for you, dear."
Paul was adamant and forthright in his belief that the gay lifestyle is incompatible with happiness and fidelity in human relations, expressing his dissatisfaction with civil unions legislation. "The temptation of other things will always stand in the way of two gay men having a long-term, loving, caring relationship."
Fanshawe says he is horrified at the lack of emotional involvement and at the willingness of men to engage in "unsafe sex." The film includes statistics that show the deadly consequences of the homosexual lifestyle. One in nine gay men in London is HIV infected and new cases of HIV have doubled in the city in five years. Incidences of syphilis have increased in the same time period 616 per cent.
"Unsafe" sex, he says, is not the only way in which gay men are self destructive. "If there's a new drug, gay men will find it and take it," he states.
At one point Fanshawe interviews a homosexual man who has "done all the drugs" and now campaigns in gay clubs against the growing use of crystal methamphetamine. The man, who could not be identified for fear of reprisals from drug dealers, said that crystal meth is preferred in the gay community because it reduces the inhibitions and allows sex to be brought to an "animalistic" level "devoid of emotion." The film says that one in five gay men in London use crystal meth.
You may be right. I don’t know these men that well, but the circumstances are such that I think there’s a decent reason to think they are as I have described. I’m not going to dismiss your premise completely here though.
With syphilis up 616 percent, I'd expect the HIV stats to be a bit higher.
nail on head
every time I see a homosexual man they act like children, , they think they’re funny they look for attention
you are right they are over grown children who desperately want attention
This is why I seriously think that they need mental help and maybe some testosterone injected into them too
There was a report done over years in Scandinavia and they found that homo men were lacking testosterone and the same with women.
The report also found that homosexuals can be cured now though science
of course the homo groups rejected the report which was done over years
,,, one aspect I've wondered about from time to time is - as they've fought so hard for inclusion in the mainstream, how to they preserve their self perceived "special" status? They've loved being on the fringe of society just as much as they've been so desperate to be in the mainstream of it. They can't really have a dollar each way and claim authenticity in either "camp", if you'll pardon the pun.
Reading this article reminds me of Yves Sait Laurant. If ever I saw a miserable drug soaked individual, it would have to be him. Talented, wealthy, famous and miserable.
The #1 vector on the N. American Continent for human infectious disease and the breeding of antibiotic resistant microbes are male homosexuals. Male homosexuals have the highest incidence of HIV/AIDS, syphilis, drug-resistant gonorrhea, entamoeba histolytica, chlamydia, herpes simplex II, Chancroid, Drug Resistant TB, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis non A & B, just to name a few. The press of course never discusses the CDC facts, but if you want to look for yourself the information is in the scientific literature. More than any other segment of society, the homosexuals are costing us billions in medical care.
,,, you knew that, didn't you, "pink racer"?
You wouldn’t happen to know of any studies that correlate the rate of HIV infection with rate syphilis infection? Just curious—GGG
The film says that one in five gay men in London use crystal meth.
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The Canucks just complained that Sarah set a bad example for their “National Health” by not killing Trig ... When will the Brits complain that gay men with the teeth that we know to be common to “meth heads” will not be covered by their dental care?
An article for you ping list
HIV Infection Rate for Young Black Men ‘Alarming:’ CDC
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091102632.html
Not offhand, but it does seem, on the face of it, that the two should sort of track one another.
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