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No one could be seen among the stacks of books, everyone was in the back room. In the back, behind a curtain was a section on pornography.
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Lee writes about a gay bookstore in Austin, Texas called Lobo’s where if you look in the front window you see bookshelves full of books, gay books certainly but books. What was the lie? That gay men are interested in sexually monogamous relationships. He was lied to the whole time he lived the gay way of life. Lee was lied to before he came out of the closet. Lee lived as an out and active gay man for going on three decades and what he describes is not only insane but also deeply heartbreaking. Lee who described himself as “a refugee from the homosexual insane asylum.” He references a 2006 essay by a man named Ronald G. Recently I was reading an excellent manuscript of an upcoming book by long-time Crisis Magazine contributor Robert Reilly on how the gay movement has moved through our institutions and our culture. Even so, we should show greater regard for our gay brothers by paying more attention to their lives. These arguments can backfire in those situations. Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage tells me that these arguments are not effective during active political campaigns. This is a difficult topic that no one wants to talk about. It is as if we really do not care about them. But in those arguments, one of the things lost is the real lives of gay men. Their arguments are very effective and I do believe they are making converts to the pressing cause of marriage. The arguments made by our best defenders of man-woman marriage focus almost exclusively on the definition of marriage and the rights of children to have both a mother and a father, and they explicitly say their arguments have nothing to do with the underlying question of homosexuality. But we quite deliberately look away from the reality of both.īut look we must, particularly since we are being asked to consider that homosexuality is on par with heterosexuality, that same-sex marriage and opposite-sex marriage can be the same, that gay sex can in fact be spousal. The active gay man and the prisoner are our brothers and we have to be concerned with both.
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I draw the parallel simply to compare how we look away from certain things and act as if the subjects of those acts are not part of us, part of society, part of the human family. I do not equate sex between gay men and prison rape.
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If others peek behind the curtain of the white-picket-fence-homosexuality they have built up for public consumption, support for the movement would wither and probably die. Certainly ignoring the lives of gay men is what the paladins of the gay movement want us to do. In the same way, we avert our gaze from the lives led by gay men. Prison rape seems a world away from us, a subject we try not to think about, yet it is rampant, dehumanizing and deadly dangerous. We must care deeply about the abuse of our brothers in prison and we must care deeply about the lives led by our gay brothers. Prisoners are our brothers, too, and so are gay men. Not caring about what happens to gay men is like not caring about prison rape.