A militant homosexual is a homosexual who doesn’t think there is anything wrong with being a homosexual. \u00a0 A militant homosexual activist is a homosexual who acts like there isn’t anything wrong with being a homosexual.<\/p>\n
I had some conservative friends…once. \u00a0 Not social conservatives…so they claimed. \u00a0 No, no…they were all about smoking pot and live and let live…so they said. \u00a0 Oh, they kept voting for crackpot right wing politicians who had no compunction about waging war on deviants Welfare Cadillac Mothers and the Dirty Fucking Hippies. \u00a0 But they frowned on making a big deal out of it. \u00a0 So long as they were left alone to do whatever they damn well pleased. \u00a0 Heinlein kind of conservatives. \u00a0 If you’ve ever read any Heinlein, you know the type.<\/p>\n
One day the sister of the family mentioned off-handedly to me that I’d somehow become homosexual because I’d decided that all women were bitches. \u00a0 I tried to tell her as politely as I could that my sexual orientation wasn’t a matter of rejection of one sex, as my attraction to my own. \u00a0 Desire I said, wasn’t disdain by a different name. \u00a0 I was drawn to males, not repulsed by females. \u00a0 I Liked<\/em> women. \u00a0 Just not that way. \u00a0 I don’t think she ever got that. \u00a0 Point of fact, I said, when I figured myself out in my teen years, I was able to relate more comfortably to women. The pressure to date against my nature was very disturbing. \u00a0 It made me angry and frustrated. I hated the whole thing. Then I finally came to a place where I could acknowledge that I was a homosexual, that I liked guys and that was okay, and the pressure was off and I could relax. It took a very great weight off my shoulders. But that didn’t seem to compute with her. \u00a0 Or any of them.<\/p>\n One day while pontificating about gay activists…I forget now what the specific issue of the day was…she averred that I was better than them because I was a “discrete” homosexual. \u00a0 I laughed, and told her I wasn’t discrete, I was Single. \u00a0 It’s easy to be discrete about your love life<\/em> I said, when you don’t have one<\/em>. \u00a0 I don’t think she ever got that either.<\/p>\n Time passes…the universe expands…and a bunch of people who only knew me casually found out what a militant homosexual I apparently was when my web site, and Facebook, made it possible for them to see my writings about my concerns social and political. \u00a0 And what I saw was it came as a shock to some that I really didn’t think there was anything wrong with me. \u00a0 That I would actually vote and act and behave like Those Other People<\/em>, that I really believed I deserved the same chances for love and happiness and contentment as everyone else. \u00a0 It felt as though I were being called a traitor somehow. \u00a0 Oh…you were one of Those people all along<\/em>…<\/p>\n Yes. \u00a0 I was. \u00a0 I am a human being. \u00a0 I have the same needs as any of you. \u00a0 Couldn’t you see that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A militant homosexual is a homosexual who doesn’t think there is anything wrong with being a homosexual. \u00a0 A militant homosexual activist is a homosexual who acts like there isn’t anything wrong with being a homosexual. I had some conservative friends…once. \u00a0 Not social conservatives…so they claimed. \u00a0 No, no…they were all about smoking pot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[19,12],"class_list":["post-6957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics","tag-the-jackass-chronicles","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}