THE ABSURD NUTTINESS THAT "GAY CULTURE" HAS BECOME

Charles Winecoff at Big Hollywood ROCKS!

Late last year, when the gay community was working itself into a frenzy over the passage of Proposition 8 -the measure to amend the California State Constitution to define marriage specifically as a union between one man and one woman - I realized I didn’t trust the community anymore. And I’m gay.

The realization didn’t come overnight; it had been forming for some time. But the Gestapo tactics over Prop 8 - McCarthy-style blacklists, boycotting of otherwise gay-friendly businesses, apologies coerced out of individual supporters who made the “wrong” choice, enforced politically-correct donations to the Human Rights Campaign - clarified it for me.

...The response to 9/11 left me feeling even more betrayed. Though there was a bona fide gay hero in the attacks - Mark Bingham, the athletic businessman who helped storm the cockpit of United Flight 93, throwing the Islamists’ suicide mission off course - he soon got brushed aside in favor of the Loose Change/neocon conspiracy/hate-Bush zeitgeist that was sweeping the Left.

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The movement, or should I say urban gay culture, didn’t seem to be about being gay anymore; it had become fixated on hating US authority - not so much Big Brother as “Big Daddy,” some imaginary, omnipotent, no doubt conservative patriarchal figure in the sky (obviously the product of a lot of transference). Spoiled American gays were running out of oppressors to attack - so they found a convenient new target just within reach: themselves.

Case in point: the mystifyingly misguided group “Queers for Palestine.” In their mechanical hatred of all things Bush-related - well, almost all things - these good little left-wing soldiers stand in perverse support of possibly the most homophobic regime on earth. Once upon a time, even I used to glibly spout that a gay person voting Republican was like a Jew voting Nazi - but Queers for Palestine go straight to the source. Talk about internalized homophobia.

...As reported by Yossi Klein Halevi and others, queers in Palestine are considered criminals - no ifs, ands, or buts. They are routinely harassed, entrapped - and brutally tortured - by police.