…when was the last time you heard a “gay activist” blame anyone BUT straight people for gays’ problems?

When I usually hear (or, actually, read) of people referring to “gay activists,” it is usually straight people who use the mantra of “gay activists” pushing a “gay agenda.” That is actually quite common in straight media, particularly in op-ed columns and letters to the editor published in (largely) straight newspapers.

I haven’t paid a lot of attention, but I have followed commentary in Boston’s Baywindows gay weekly publication. They do use the term “gay activists,” but I have yet to see them blame straight people for gay peoples’ problems.

Perhaps you might wish to cite a specific example. I note that that is rarely done around here.

(oooh, gonna pay for that one come next confession)

I think, and this is only my uneducated opinion, is that the GLBT population will never be treated as they ought to be treated as normal human beings, unless a large part of the GLBT populations quits trying so hard to act like freaks, and being so very viciously disrespectful to straight folks around them.

it appears that the writer believes that gay people have to behave all “prim and proper.” One wonders whether he has observed the primarily straight shenanigans at the New Orleans Mardi Gras. Straight people don’t always behave all prim and proper. Sounds like a double standard to me. It’s ok for straight people to act like freaks, but gay people better watch their ways.

Such double standards by straight people aren’t unusual, by the way.

It would be nice if the author had cited specific instances in which gays were “being so very viciously disrespectful to straight folks around them.” Just to note, it is more likely that straight people will be viciously disrespectful to gay people around them–everything from snide remarks to assault and battery.

Ooops! I forgot:

I think, and this is only my uneducated opinion, is that the GLBT population will never be treated as they ought to be treated as normal human beings, unless a large part of the GLBT populations quits trying so hard to act like freaks, and being so very viciously disrespectful to straight folks around them.

Nope. Nothing “uneducated” about that. You hit the nail on the head and that’s what I’ve been saying for a while now.

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As a straight guy living in Ann Arbor, Mi, I am always turned off by the local gay publications

Well, I’d wonder if you were turned on by them.

J/K. Great post and thanks.

“Yuhas may be the only honorably discharged, 100% disabled veteran, conservative Jewish gay man on the radio dial anywhere in the country.”

Where is Bruce today anyway?

The last I read, Bawer was living somewhere in Northern Europe with his same-sex partner. I believe he’s in Norway, and that his partner is Norwegian. From what I read by him serveral years ago, he has pretty much given up on the US because of its anti-gay attitudes.

He has a web site, which has some commentary, but which is primarily a compilation of links to a lot of the articles that he has published.

http://www.brucebawer.com/

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Where is Bruce today anyway? He hits with a few posts and then disappears. He should start a Guerilla (sp?) blog.

“Two“?! (you have to say that like Casey Kasem to get the right effect)

Ugh! What a slap in the face!
(Oh wait, or was he leaving Bruce out?)

Visited Dale’s piece… except for his misguided praise of Sullivan, it is good as promised… thanks Dan.

What’s even more shocking to me is its appearance in Bay Area Reporter, a left-wing (is there any other kind?) S.F. gay paper. Bet they’ll get some hate mail over this one!