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How the Left Uses Gays to Dismantle, Undermine, and Toxify the Catholic Church…the Gaystapo in Action in Chicago!
John Nolte at Breitbart.com just published a hard-hitting piece that’s worth your very valuable time…exposing Barack Obama’s commitment to the institutional Left’s Alinskyite objective of “dismantling, undermining, and toxifying the Catholic Church”; this article’s one of those that I’ll probably quote from for years to come, because I’ve never seen this articulated so succinctly before. Dismantle. Undermine. Toxify. That is precisely what Leftists have been attempting in their decades-long war against the Catholic Church. Kudos to Nolte for precisely encapsulating so much evil into three small words…which I hope you’ll join me in making everyday vocabulary from this point forward.
What John Nolte probably doesn’t know firsthand, though, is that the Left’s weapon of choice against Catholics is normally gays…who serve as a Gaystapo goon squad that is revved up into frenzies of hatred against Christians in general (but Catholics quite specifically). If you observe the institutional Left’s strategic moves long enough, you’ll see it’s almost always gays who are bused in to block the entrances to cathedrals or churches and scream expletives at parishioners heading into mass; this is, of course, the toxification aspect of the Leftists’ agenda…since they are attempting to make going to Catholic mass so unpleasant an experience for believers that they’ll potentially start staying home, just to avoid being screamed at by obnoxious gays out on the street (most of whom, in the video above at least, are actually members of the Chicago Teachers’ Union…more on that later).
The Left uses the Gaystapo against the Church (with gays screaming “Bigots!”) in much the same way that Democrats trot blacks (led, of course, by the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Henry Gates) in front of cameras to accuse conservative businesses, Republican politicians, or any of the Democrats’ other perceived “enemies” of being “Ray Ciss”. This is stage crafting coordinated by the DNC, with gays and blacks serving as useful idiots and foot solders for the institutional Left.
It doesn’t matter to the State Media that the particular gays holding astoturfed signs or the blacks being paid $50 to walk a picket line often have no idea what specifically they are protesting (and, as in the video above, can’t really identify what exactly makes someone a “bigot” or a “Ray Ciss”)…just so long as the “news” can run clips of them angrily denouncing enemies of the Democrat Party as “bigots” or “Ray Ciss”. It’s almost as if the Left has a giant vending machine somewhere that dispenses these useful idiots in prepackaged cartons, in whatever flavor Democrats need that particular day to target a specific area of Christianity or conservatism for attack. This is such a well-oiled machine that Leftists no doubt have a color-coded chart to determine which particular subset of the Democrat Party can be most aggressively used to inflict the most damage to Christians and conservatives on any particular issue. It’s like knowing you just need to type in A5 to get your nacho cheese Doritos or plug in B7 for some Cheetos (while simultaneously sinking Republicans’ mixed-metaphoric “Battleship”).
You’re probably much more familiar with black people being used by the Left in antics conducted by “The Justice Brothers” of Jackson, Sharpton, and Gates (as parodied by satirist Paul Shanklin above)…but you need to start paying attention to the similar activities of obnoxious gays who are consistently manipulated as unthinking props by the “gay community” leaders who serve the institutional Left as what I’ve dubbed “The Gaystapo”; this is happening every day all around you…and you need to start speaking out against it.
Because if you do, then Democrats would no longer be able to use any of these people as weaponized props against Christians and conservatives and the institutional Left would be dealt a very severe strategic blow…WITH YOUR COMMITTED HELP.
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[ Click above to embiggen: two men who spread virulent hatred against Christians….one in Chicago and one in Tehran ]
A classic example of the deployment of a weaponized Gaystapo brigade manifested itself just this week here in Chicago — on Sunday June 16th, 2013 — when a throng of self-proclaimed gays operating under the banners of “Equality Illinois” assailed the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel church on Belmont Avenue between Halsted and Broadway in Boystown (see “Hateful Gays Attack Catholic Church in Chicago” video at the top of this page…but be cautioned about foul language, loud screaming, and general obnoxiousness).
Equality Illinois is a political action group founded and funded by Art Johnston, the owner of Sidetrack the Video Bar in Boystown; though Johnston often introduces himself as “Chicago’s Harvey Milk”, I instead refer to him as “The Ayatoldja Johnston” because in Chicago he serves a function for “activist gays” and the institutional Left that the Ayatollah Khomeini similarly served for jihadists and Islam in Iran: he’s the one who makes the speeches to identify and denounce the “enemies of the gay community” and the Left in Illinois and then compels the equivalent of jihad against them. If “The Ayatoldja Johnston” pushes a fatwa against you from his perch at Sidetrack the Video Bar and marks you as an “enemy”, expect to have every gullible gay in the tri-state area harassing and menacing you lickety-split…in much the way that the Ayatollah Khomeini used to sic deranged Muslims on the worldwide “enemies of Islam” from his mosque in Tehran.
If you are familiar with the Alinsky Rules for Radicals you’ll already know that the institutional Left employs much of the same sort of tactics that the “Religion of Peace” that is Islam utilizes…and that both groups are very enemy-directed and destruction-focused. No wonder the Left attacks Christians relentlessly but never addresses the beheading, maiming, imprisonments, torture, forced gender-reassignment, general brutality or other evils that Muslims inflict upon gays in any country where Islam is dominant; Leftists clearly view Muslims as fellow travelers in the “enemy of my enemy is my ally” sense. Little do these idiots know, however, that should the institutional Left succeed in destroying the Catholic Church on a global scale that Islam will no doubt rise up to fill the void…and at that future date Muslims will turn on the useful idiots in the Left and execute them. The gays, to no one’s surprise, will be the first ones that Muslims kill.
Leftists don’t think that far ahead though…or, more accurately, they don’t seem to think that much at all. As the video I shot in Chicago last Sunday establishes.
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When I brought this footage home and showed it to my boyfriend Justin, he watched exactly 47 seconds of it before he covered his ears and told me he couldn’t take anymore; the screaming, yelling, cursing, honking, and general obnoxiousness was too overwhelming for him. Justin’s a nice young guy from rural Arkansas who still asks me “why are these people doing this to our country?” whenever he witnesses the “activists” of the Left in action. For those of you who feel similarly to Justin and can’t make it through the full 8 minutes of footage I taped, here’s a rough breakdown of what the Gaystapo was up to in front of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel this Sunday:
* The video begins with a woman who self-identified to me as “a loud and proud bull dyke and rug muncher!” (that is a direct quote) answering my questions to her about what the “protest” was about (that’s me you hear off-camera talking to these lunatics); she’s wearing a tee shirt that’s clearly emblazoned with the Equality Illinois (EI) logo, much like the shirts worn by other attendees of this scream-a-thon. Look closely in the video and you’ll see that most of the signs also carry either the Equality Illinois logo or some reference to this group…as Equality Illinois is who directly organized the attendees (with help from the Chicago Teachers’ Union). The woman refused to give me her name, so I’ll call her “Equality Illinois Woman” in the below.
* I asked Equality Illinois Woman about the sign she was holding, which read “ARCHBIGOT of Chicago not welcome”; it turns out this mob was dispatched by the Ayatoldja Johnston’s Equality Illinois PAC to purposefully disrupt a mass being led by the Archbishop at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel for its gay Catholics group, AGLO (Archdiocese Gay Lesbian Outreach). The Ayatoldja Johnston seems to have decided that depressing turnout for this mass was important, so Equality Illinois Woman and her cohorts were there to bully and heckle any gay Catholics who were heading into Mt. Carmel to celebrate mass (more on this later).
* Labeling someone a “bigot” is a tried and true tactic of the Gaystapo, empowered by Alinksy Rule for Radicals #13: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Start paying attention to whenever gays anywhere call someone a bigot; it’s always a supremely astroturfed effort. The Ayatoldja Johnston did this to Illinois gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady back in the year 2010…and even went so far as to plaster the entire front of his bar Sidetrack on Halsted with bizarre signs screaming BIGOT! BIGOT! BIGOT! at Brady (in much the way that the screamers in the video shout BIGOT here in 2013). No explanation was ever given by Ayatoldja Johnston regarding what exactly made Brady a “bigot”…but according to Johnston he just was. That eerily reminds me of the Ayatollah Khomeini declaring Salman Rushdie a heretic and demanding his beheading in a fatwa; at least the only thing the Ayatoldja Johnston demanded gays in Boystown to do to Brady was to ensure he did not win the gubernatorial election.
* When I pressed Equality Illinois Woman for some specifics on what made “the Archbishop” a bigot, she said that he “takes money from parishioners to lobby against the civil rights of gay people”. I find this highly ironic, because by this definition Equality Illinois Woman has named Art Johnston himself as a bigot…because he takes money from Sidetrack bar patrons, funnels that into Equality Illinois, and uses that organization to lobby against the rights of Christians (including funding this scream-a-thon in front of Mt. Carmel that was intended to disrupt its AGLO mass last Sunday). This is a good reminder to all of you to heed Alinsky Rule #4…which is to “make the enemy live up to its own rules”.
* Equality Illinois Woman got very upset with me when I asked her what exactly the money from the Church was being used to do, and she rambled about it being used to “meddle in politics”. But, isn’t that what the Ayatoldja Johnston does with Sidetrack’s money via Equality Illinois? She got right up in my grill and said that the Archbishop doesn’t “know the difference between Church and state and can’t separate Church and state”…and that’s where I think it’s time to take a reality check and think about the fact that Democrats control the entire state of Illinois. Which is not Alabama, or Mississippi, or Georgia, or Arkansas, or even Missouri…where religious leaders have a lot of clout. I actually can’t think of any state where the Catholic Church is powerful enough to really affect politics in the year 2013, since the sex-abuse scandals of the 1980s really constrained whatever public influence church officials once had in America. Just think back to the last election and the various Bishops and Cardinals who warned Catholic voters about the dangers of Obamacare and its forcing the Church to violate its doctrine by funding contraception via health plans…and not all that many voting Catholics paid much attention to that at all when they cast their ballots. If any religious leaders in this country have any real political power today it is the evangelical ones…who can assuredly make or break a Republican’s national political career (see: Mitt Romney). Nobody in politics really pays that much attention to Catholics…except the Gaystapo that always attacks them. Which makes me wonder how much the Left had to do with the sex scandals of the 1980s and whether Leftist long-term infiltration of the Church set the stage for all of that…just so the institutional Left could weaken the Church from within in what Nolte called the effort to “dismantle, undermine, and toxify” it. We’ll have to revisit this another day because I think we might be onto something.
* At the 39 second mark, Equality Illinois Woman has walked away from me and has essentially stopped answering my questions. A very odd man pipes up who for some reason reminds me of a Muppet (so that’s what I’ll call him). He says that the Church is there to block gay people’s rights, so I ask him how exactly it does that in a Democrat-controlled state like Illinois where the Catholic Church has little to no power.
* Equality Illinois Woman then starts screaming at me about Prop 8 in California and doesn’t like it when I remind her that blacks in the Golden State who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 (to usher in The Golden Age of Hope and Change) also voted for Prop 8. One of the apocryphal tall tales that gays enjoy telling is that California is actually controlled by super-powerful Mormons in Utah who forced the passage of Prop 8 (which canceled out “gay marriage” in Sacramento). This is the height of absurdity because if Mormons were really that powerful then why didn’t they simultaneously carry the state of California for John McCain in the electoral college? The State Media will never admit this, but the reason that Barack Obama won the state of California’s electoral votes while Prop 8 passed in 2008 is because Obama’s black voters also gleefully pulled the lever to discriminate against gay people. And they loved every minute of it. I actually don’t know what blacks in that state were more thrilled about: electing a black man president or sticking it to gays with a ballot-measure F-U in CA.
* Equality Illinois Woman insists at the 52-second mark that the Archbishop was in fact behind Prop 8 (so it wasn’t the Mormons?) and that he was also behind the effort to block “gay marriage’ in Illinois. I assume she also believes he was behind the Kennedy Assassination, the removal of Twinkies from the marketplace, and the rigging of the Dancing with the Stars Voting in 2010 (no, wait, that was me!). For those who don’t know, Democrat Speaker of the Illinois House Mike Madigan decided not to allow gay marriage in the state of Illinois because if he had done this right now Illinois would be the 13th state to recognize “gay marriage” and Madigan is superstitious and didn’t want to be the “unlucky #13″ state. He wants Illinois to be the 14th state to legalize “gay marriage” because 14 is one of his lucky numbers (I think it’s a grandchild or niece or nephew’s birthday or something). This is honest to goodness the reason why “gay marriage” did not pass in a fully Democrat-controlled state legislature…just because Democrats here did not want it to pass this year. Fundraising off “gay marriage” is a HUGE FINANCIAL BOON for Democrats…and they need that money for 2014. What the State Media and the useful idiots at Equality Illinois won’t tell you is that Democrats purposefully tabled “gay marriage” in 2013 because they wanted at least one more year of fundraising in the “gay community” to fill their campaign coffers for 2014. If Madigan had allowed this to pass in ’13 it would have been unlucky for Democrats in the fundraising racket…so it’s better for the Left’s nationwide prospects in ’14 to keep gays riled up about “gay marriage”. Do you see how that works? Maybe “14″ isn’t a family birthday number for Mike Madigan after all…but is just another part of the Left’s longterm election strategies.
* Around the 107-minute mark Equality Illinois Woman and Muppet insist the Church controls the state of Illinois, which is just an outright lie. Have you been to this state? Clearly the Church would do a better job of running it than Democrats…and maybe black children in public schools here would be able to read by the age of 15 and AIDS and meningitis wouldn’t be making roaring comebacks in the City of Chicago. Idiots.
* Something really interesting happened at about the 114-minute mark. If you blink, you’ll miss it…but there is a man in a dark shirt with nasty dark hair and a goatee who started coming towards me to knock my camera out of my hand and assault me. You’ll hear Equality Illinois Woman pull him to the side and say “Did I say you could do that to him?”, which was my first indication that this woman was the assigned “leader” of the protest. You need to understand that this is how astroturfing works on the Left…there is always a contact person/leader of the event and then people like Muppet and Nasty Hair Thug are recruited by various organizations like Equality Illinois or the Teachers’ Union. When they arrive on-site, they are told that someone like Equality Illinois Woman is in charge. Usually they meet around the corner from wherever the actual scream-a-thon will be taking place and the contact person/leader establishes the rules and priorities of the event. One of the rules is that they can’t do anything that looks violent while being filmed…and they can’t say things on camera that people like James O’Keefe and Andrew Breitbart have been expert in the past at catching on tape. If Equality Illinois Woman had not been there to stop him, I’m pretty sure Nasty Hair Thug would have knocked the camera out of my hand or grabbed it…which would have been very unfortunate for him because police were standing by and I would have insisted he be arrested for assault and theft for doing so.
* At 121-minutes, Muppet can’t identify which representatives in the Illinois state legislature said they were being pressured by Catholics not to allow “gay marriage” in this fully Democrat-controlled state. He said he needed to go back home and look at some list he had of all these people. But, he didn’t bring this list to the event he was attending where he’d be screaming and yelling about these people? Doesn’t make much sense.
* At 144-minutes, Muppet asks me what I’m doing there and I truthfully told him I was just walking down the street and saw all the commotion. This is amusing to me because I almost never go down Belmont between Broadway and Halsted because the only thing that’s really on that stretch of Belmont is Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and that’s not the church I attend. It was a one-in-a-million chance that I of all people would be walking down this street right when this scream-a-thon was happening…and for once I actually had my camera with me and it still had battery life in it. I happened to be out that day taking photos of apartment buildings for a friend looking for a new place and if not for that I’d have never encountered these lunatics or gotten this on film. The Holy Spirit must have been directing me or something.
* I love that he says at 153-minutes something about “if you are a gay man”. That’s funny to me because I think there’s no way on Earth I could ever hide that I’m gay and don’t think I’m remotely passable as straight. I think my voice gives me away, totally.
* At 209-minutes, Muppet says that Democrats don’t control the state of Illinois with Speaker Mike Madigan. Clearly, Muppet is visiting us from BizarroWorld.
* At 220-minutes, Muppet insists these people he doesn’t know the names of are all afraid of “reapercushions” (I think he means repercussions, but maybe these are some sort of sofa paddings the Angel of Death carries around on which to rest his sickle). Once again, I don’t know why any Democrat would be afraid of any religious group because the way this state is gerrymandered there are no Democrats anywhere in Illinois, even far down south, who are ever in danger of losing their seats because of the influence of Catholics. That’s just crazy talk on Muppet’s part.
* At 242-minutes, I attempted to get good shots of as many of the faces of the people protesting as possible because I’d like to identify them all by name (and see how many of them work for the Chicago Public School system). If you read Nolte’s article, he makes it clear that the Left is targeting Catholic Schools for destruction because they are an impediment to the complete takeover of children’s education in this country (via the Frankfurt Plan). I always spot members of both the Teachers’ Union and the SEIU at any astroturfed protest in Chicago and endeavor to identify which teachers specifically are moonlighting in the Gaystapo. If these taxpayer-paid public employees are doing things like this on their off time…I think parents need to wonder what they are doing in the classrooms.
* Notice how the majority of these people scurry from the cameras, attempt to obscure their faces with signs, turn their heads away, etc. If they were proud of what they were doing and really believed in the things they were screaming then why are they so afraid to be photographed doing all of it? I can tell you, whenever I am at some event speaking in public I don’t care who films me because I am in a public place, engaged in a political activity for a cause I believe in, and I never, ever say or write anything that I do not believe 100% to be true and will forever standby. Leftists on the other hand always seem ashamed to be on film, like at heart they just know what they are doing is wrong and wilt when a camera is pointed at them. Why is that?
* 254-minutes…the two guys hiding their faces are both public school teachers but I don’t know their names. I recognize them because they were both wearing Chicago Public Schools red tee shirts in the bar Downtown on State Street earlier this year during the whole mess with the teachers’ strike. I remember the bald guy because he looks like Buster from Arrested Development. If you know the names of either of these guys (or anyone else in the video) please email or post in comments because I’d love to find out what schools they teach in and see if parents of their students know what they get up to on the weekends with Equality Illinois and its political agenda.
* At the 304-minute mark I see someone has a video camera on a tripod…and the camera is pointed at the church steps. Equality Illinois is very clearly trying to capture every gay man heading into the AGLO event on film…so that the Ayatoldja Johnston and the rest of Equality Illinois can identify these guys and deal with them in some way. Remember that this event was setup up right before the AGLO mass being celebrated by the Archbishop…so the camera was positioned from a vantage point to capture the faces of the attendees heading to the event. The camera is not pointed at the protestors, so it’s not being used to record the activities of the Equality Illinois and Teachers’ Union members. It is filming who is going to services for AGLO so that the Ayatoldja Johnston can know who these people are…and perhaps order gay jihad on them. Why else point the camera that way when all the action is happening on the sidewalk?
* At 307-minutes, the gay bullies dispatched by Equality Illinois harass a gay Catholic in a yellow shirt who is attempting to enter the church. They’re calling him names and shouting at him for participating in AGLO, but much to his credit he ignores them and keeps his cool…the guy in the yellow shirt says he has “seen two year olds that behave better”…and one of the gay bullies from Equality Illinois screams “yah, you’re wearing yellow and yellow”. I guess because he has on a yellow shirt as well as yellow shoes. That’s called matching. It’s a pretty standard thing to do, especially for gays. Yellow Shirt guy tells the Equality Illinois thugs that they act like idiots. They really don’t know what to do, because they are used to successfully bullying people, so Equality Illinois Woman just starts shouting louder.
* At 335-minutes, a man wearing the Number Five on the back of his shirt starts talking about Anita Bryant (whom Justin thinks is the “black woman who accused Clarence Thomas of putting hairs on a can of Coke” but is actually the former singer and Florida orange juice pitch woman whom Harvey Milk made into his personal nemesis back in the 1970s). Pay attention to Number Five, because I believe he’s also a Chicago public school teacher. I’ve seen him before at Teachers’ Union events, though he might be a professional protest-attendee in the ranks of the astroturfing Left. That means he might not even be gay himself, but is doing this because it’s safe to assume that Equality Illinois paid people to stand in front of this church and harass people attending the AGLO mass. I think he’s a teacher though, based on his mannerisms and the fact that I swear I saw him at the teachers’ strike protests too.
* Notice the Chicago police standing there. Justin actually asked me why the police were not doing anything to stop all this, but I had to explain to him that the cops in Chicago are actually really great guys…and they do an AWESOME job 99.9% of the time here. I love Chicago cops. They aren’t allowed to stop a protest like this or to interfere in it…but they were there to keep the sidewalk clear and actually protect people heading into the Church. So they were doing the right thing. If the Equality Illinois thugs had laid hands on anyone, grabbed my camera, or physically blocked the way into the Church then the cops would have arrested the gay bullies. But these people had a legal right to scream and yell and attempt to disrupt the mass verbally…they just could not physically touch anyone, step onto Church property to scream and yell, or prohibit someone physically from attending mass. They are allowed to videotape people going inside in an attempt to identify them and intimidate them because there is no expectation of privacy walking down a sidewalk and into a church.
* 341-minutes. Just look at how weird these people look. That also makes me believe this was a paid protest and that people answered an ad on Craigslist or something to attend this. There are such oddballs in this group from Equality Illinois; some look homeless, others appear to be mental patients. I doubt they all are fully aware of where they even are let alone why they are screaming at a church. One guy looks like Quasimodo and might think this is a staging of Hunchback. This is really typical for turnout at a Leftist paid event.
* 420-minutes. You can see a guy running past the lunatics to get into the church. It’s pretty sick that this is allowed to happen, as Justin said. Can you imagine if the tables were turned and gays had to run to get inside of a gay bar? I wonder what the Ayatoldja Johnston would say if Christian groups picketed and screamed “BIGOT!” in front of his bar Sidetrack on Halsted and forced his customers to run as they were entering the building, afraid of being filmed going in? I bet the State Media would be all over that, wouldn’t they?
* This all goes on for a while longer and the honking and screaming of BIGOT! give me quite a headache. I cut it off at 8 minutes just because it was more of the same thing over and over again and the police were keeping anything major from happening. But the protest itself went on for quite a while with lots of screaming and yelling intended to disrupt the mass being held inside. You’ll notice that everyone screams louder when the doors of the church are opened…because they are trying to get their voices to carry inside. I think they also are doing a psy-ops trick here, because they are trying to seem more numerous than they really are. As in, if they scream loudly when the doors are open the people inside will think there are hundreds of Equality Illinois thugs out there…instead of just a handful of paid lunatics.
What’s actually fascinating about all of this is that I never knew about this AGLO organization before and hadn’t heard that Our Lady of Mt. Carmel had some kind of a gay outreach program. The only way I would have ever found out about this was if I had walked by a protest like the one on Sunday that called AGLO to my attention. I’m now considering going to mass at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and joining this AGLO group…and the Church will have Equality Illinois and the Teachers’ Union to thank for that new addition to their membership ranks!
I’m sure the Ayatoldja Art Johnston will just love that.
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As I was walking away, Equality Illinois Woman said something I wish I could have gotten on tape because I enjoyed the visuals of it so much. She said, “THEY always send one of them out to try to discredit us like that”, while pointing at me. As if people who were never credited in the first place need me to discredit them.
I wonder who’s the “THEY” that she referred to in that and what “one of them” meant to her. Since Sunday, I’ve been enjoying coming up with ideas on that with Justin, imaging all sorts of variations on the theme of “THEY” and “THEM”.
Was “THEY” the Vatican itself, as if the Holy See dispatches me on these missions around the world in service of the Church? I pictured a tall, dark, and chastely-handsome colorfully-attired Swiss Guard popping up to my doorstep carrying a parchment scroll sealed in blood red wax and tied up in golden string with an urgent mission directive straight from the ring of Pope Francis in Rome…directing me to Belmont and Halsted to film lunatics screaming at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel on a random Sunday in Chicago.
Perhaps, instead of a Michelangelo-clad hottie the Vatican would just materialize a cherub in the vicinity of my desk who’d deposit my marching orders on finely-calligraphied vellum…like those owls that flew around Hogwarts passing all of those notes (but leaving just glitter behind instead of the horrors I imagine mice-ingesting owls depositing from their behinds as they took flight around the magical school). If black smoke over the Vatican means no pope has been selected by a conclave and white smoke heralds a new pontiff…does raspberry or peacock smoke indicate successful transmission of a message from the Holy See to a conservative homosexual in Chicago? The possibilities are endless.
Of course, I wondered if Equality Illinois Woman instead meant “THEY” in the Republican sense…like Governor Sarah Palin, Congressman Allen West, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Senator Ted Cruz, or others in the GOP ranks that I like and admire sent me out to videotape on Sunday? How awesome would that be? (Answer: it would be hella awesome, hunties). Where do I sign up to be an unpaid page for committed conservative people who are trying to save our country from ruin? I’d love that gig and would hope they keep me very, very busy always.
I very much enjoy being “one of them”, as Equality Illinois Woman referred to me…because I sure as Hades never want to be mistaken for one of the nuts who’d heed the Ayatoldja Johnston’s call for jihad and scream and yell at a church on a Sunday. I’d rather this woman forever call me “one of them”…since “one of us” in her case would mean a wasted and pathetic life wallowing in the institutional Left’s special blend of hypocrisy and hatred.
On an intensely personal note, the more I consider it the more I truly do believe the Holy Spirit drew me down Belmont (a street I rarely walk down) last Sunday (a day I rarely am out and about walking in the neighborhood) for the specific purpose of catching the Gaystapo on tape engaging in this coordinated attack against Catholics; for Nolte at Breitbart to publish his article on the War on Catholics today (while I was working on getting the video footage up on YouTube and this essay written) sends a shiver up my spine because it, too, feels like the Holy Spirit at work compelling my service to the faithful on the ground here in Boystown. There’s a great line in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where Sean Connery, playing a devote Catholic, “suddenly remembers (his) Charlemagne” and says, “Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky”…before employing an umbrella to send seagulls into the air to cripple a Nazi warplane. The Holy Spirit apparently has a long history of commandeering both the ordinary and the oddball for service as needed, no matter how unexpected it would be.
I’m delighted and honored to similarly answer the Spirit’s call whenever and wherever it comes…in service to my Lord, my country, and the American people I adore. I hope as friends you always join me in this and together we endeavor to expose all the bad things the supposed “gay community” does to aide and abet the institutional Left.
QUESTION FOR COMMENTS: Have you ever encountered Leftists like this out and about, screaming and yelling and carrying on the way that they do? Can you tell immediately how artificial and astroturfed these “protests” really are and by watching the video can you see how the rabble present really do appear to be hired hands from Craigslist?
What are some ways that YOU can spread the word that the institutional Left uses gay people as useful idiots and Gaystapo goon squad foot soldiers in the ceaseless War Against Catholics in this country?
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I grew up in Cleveland and went to Catholic school from kindergarten to college…and one of the things I remember the nuns repeating over and over again was that the Holy Spirit would send us messages in creative ways until we understood something important; the more we needed to hear the message, the louder the messaging would become…until we had our needed epiphany.
It’s long been obvious to me that certain people are in my life for a reason, with that reason typically being that I am supposed to learn a particular thing from that person. For the last month or so, since everything with the IRS and NSA scandals have been breaking, my boyfriend Justin’s mother CarolAnne has made life almost unbearable in our apartment. Justin’s a very sweet 26 year old who talks to his mother on the phone for three hours a day…but not because he particularly wants to. It’s just that if he doesn’t listen to her that she will keep calling, texting, emailing, and harassing him until he indulges her…and she won’t hang up until her husband comes home, at which time she makes him listen to her and she hangs up with Justin.
From what I figure, CarolAnne spends around 12 hours a day talking…and it is all about her many personal fears. Mostly, these are waking nightmares she has about the government spying on her and “tape-recording her”. The other night, Netflix randomly suggested I watch the old Gene Hackman movie The Conversation (check it out here: www.amazon.com)…and I swear that was the Holy Spirit helping me better understand CarolAnne, because it’s a movie from 1973 about people tape-recording each other all over the place and using these microphones that look like sniper scopes and pointing them at people to hear over long distances. Also, Gene Hackman rolled around in a van where all the tape-recording equipment was kept and he’d pick seemingly random people to tape like this.
For the entire time I’ve known Justin, CarolAnne’s been burning up his phone with insistences that vans were cruising by their property or that people are “tape-recording her”…and I never understood why her fears were so specific. But, I’m today convinced that she saw the movie The Conversation at some point late at night and it’s just haunted her ever since. I believe this because I’ve made the mistake of watching creepy movies at night…and have fallen asleep during them…so that I end up having recurring nightmares more or less involving the plot of that movie.
CarolAnne is Justin’s mother and he loves her very much so I will never criticize the woman or comment on what I think about her belief that people in vans are always out there “somewhere” tape-recording her…but after watching The Conversation I think I can understand a little of why she’s so convinced this is happening, since in 1973 what was going on in that movie would have probably been shocking to people who I guess never owned a tape-recorder themselves. It must have freaked her out…and she never got over it because she never addressed the fear it instilled in her.
I know a lot of people are similarly freaked out while imaging all the gadgets and gizmos the NSA supposedly has in 2013…but I think it’s absurd to be terrified of “someone coming to get you” if you aren’t doing anything illegal. None of this stuff is admissible in any court and we are still a nation of laws, regardless of whatever you are reading on the Internet that is scaring you. Many people in the IRS need to be sent to prison for what they did to the Tea Party and the NSA needs to be refocused on surveilling actual terrorist threats (such as mosques…which apparently WERE NOT being eavesdropped upon when they should be…since we all know that girl scouts and octogenarian grandmothers are the real threats to our country…not Muslims and their “Religion of Peace” that will blow you to pieces”)…but the IRS and NSA are not coming for YOU, specifically. And if they ever did they would not get away with it because the jig is up with all of this now.
At several key junctures in my life, I believe I encountered certain people for a reason…and all of those people told me that the only known antidote to fear is action. Every time I heard that was a low point in my life when I desperately needed to hear it…and I swear the Holy Spirit compelled people to seek me out and tell me what I needed to hear. Maybe today is a day I pay that forward and remind you that the antidote to fear is action…if you are someone who has been traumatized by the revelations of what the IRS and NSA have been up to.
I personally am not afraid if my phone conversations are being recorded or my emails are being read or I’m being targeted by the government because of my outspoken condemnation of the Obama Regime and the political Left in this country. CarolAnne every day tells Justin that she thinks “today will be the day” that the Left sends someone to come for me…and every day I tell Justin that Rush Limbaugh, Thomas Sowell, Mark Steyn, Governor Sarah Palin, Allen West, Senator Ted Cruz, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, and Ann Coulter would disappear in the cover of darkness before I would be “taken away”. Though, because we’re friends like this, I do aspire to be “taken away” the same day as all those people…because that’s mighty fine company in my opinion. I’d actually be somewhat insulted if “the government” came for all of them but left me behind…like it was the Rapture or something and I just wasn’t good enough to be murdered with my personal heroes.
I think the IRS needs to be abolished and the NSA put under serious new oversight…but I am not worried about being listened to. Frankly, I’m proud of everything I’ve ever said or written and never put in words or type on a screen anything I’d be ashamed to see blasted onto a billboard on Times Square. I HOPE the Obama Regime is listening to my every phone call because they will certainly get an earful…and I hope they read everything I write because that’s so many hours of lost productivity on their part, since I’ve generated a lot of content in my lifetime and I’m sure it’s a mountain to wade through.
For whatever reason, Justin’s parents are pretty much terrified of life in general and spend their time on this planet cowering in horror over one thing or another. If they aren’t crippled by frost-fingered fear then they are talking about how afraid they are. Justin has inherited some of this from them and will go on and on for literally hours about how afraid he is that the NSA is listening to everything we say in our apartment. ”Well, let’s talk about good things then and really make them enjoy themselves,” I tell him. Why waste your life being afraid of people listening in? That’s giving these people power they shouldn’t have and don’t deserve.
I think there’s a lot of egomania in all this too, on CarolAnne’s part, because I don’t know what she’s up to that’s supposed to be so fascinating to government agencies. She’s retired, has no hobbies to speak of, rarely leaves her house, and spends almost her entire waking day freaking people out about them being tape-recorded. I think it would be torturous to sit in a van listening to her talking about people in a van listening to her talk about people in a van. But, that’s what she insists is happening. I give it a few more weeks before she invents a secret language so she can talk in code with Justin and his sister Darcy. So the NSA will never know!
It’s not in my personality to ever give up on anyone, but I am close to doing that with Justin and his family. They are pretty soul-killing to deal with when there’s something like the IRS or NSA scandal happening in the news, because they’re all news junkies who never do anything but read things on the screen. I really have grown to hate Breitbart.com since Andrew died because I feel like the stories there just encourage people to be afraid of everything and sit around in the fetal position. Andrew Breitbart would be ashamed of what’s become of his sites…because in the old days, with Andrew at the helm, the “Bigs” gave people hope and showed them how to take action. Now, it’s pretty much just a bunch of guys over there with halitosis scaring the crap out of people. I’m sick of it.
Justin’s mom needs to join her local Tea Party and start finding ways to volunteer. Today is an excellent day to start, because at 12 noon there will be protests at all the IRS offices across the country. There’s the big one happening in Washington, of course, but if you’re not anywhere near DC you can go to the IRS office near you. There will be a group of others out there too. I can’t imagine there wouldn’t be. Go there, meet up with nice people who are sick of the government persecuting conservatives and Christians, and scream and yell for a while.
But, more importantly, make new friends who clearly enjoy leaving the house and going out into the world and doing something. Do not spend your life sitting in front of a computer screen being scared of things. You know I love you and am honored you come here to read what I write, but I don’t want you sitting around the house just reading political essays or commentary all day. God did not gift you with life to waste it like this…or to cower in fear when something in the news scares you.
Justin constantly says I’m abnormal because I’m not afraid of things, but I just don’t see the point to fear. I admit that living in the city I get creeped out if I hear a noise at night….but then I use my senses and all my faculties to investigate what it is and determine if it’s a real threat or not. Twice, I’ve been burgled since moving to Chicago and twice I had to scare intruders off…but that’s like raccoons constantly breaking into Justin’s parents house in rural Arkansas; it just comes with the territory and is a price I pay for choosing to live in Chicago. I never lose any sleep over this and just deal with such events as they come, with a baseball bat and a few other things at my bedside always ready for use.
Life is too precious to waste on being afraid all the time…but that’s not me telling you to just be okay with what the IRS and the NSA and the Justice Department and Homeland Security and (geesh this list is horrifyingly long) the rest of the Obama Regime have been up to. Speak out against this. Rile your friends and neighbors up against the Regime. Go our there to a protest and scream and yell and tell the IRS that you are here to supervise them because you are a taxpayer and an American citizen and Reese Witherspoon ain’t got nothing on you.
That’s another thing that Justin always comments on that I do…but whenever I encounter any sort of a government worker I make a point to tell the person that I am his or her supervisor. I regularly go downtown to attend all sorts of meetings for the Board of This, That, or the Othere…and often I am the first person in years who ever bothered to come down for a meeting of that Board. When I arrive, I say “I’m Kevin DuJan and I am here to supervise you”. Almost always, these people are horrified. I then inform them that pursuant to Illinois’ open meetings laws I am going to be filming all of them and will evaluate their professionalism and conduct. Government workers absolutely hate this. If they give me any trouble at all, I whip out the governing statutes and inform them that if they give me any more trouble that I will bring the state’s attorney into this. You’d be stunned at how fast they back down and suddenly remember that they really are agencies subject to the public’s observation and oversight.
The thing is, though, that Justin and his family remind me that most Americans have forgotten this. Sadly, in 2013, Americans really are afraid of our government. That’s heart-breaking because Americans are such awesome, ass-kicking people. I remember when I was in grade school and the principal convened the first-and-only “Nationality Day” and all us kids were forced to talk about what made our “nationality” special, I talked about how fantastic America was…and that how people here weren’t afraid of things like everyone in Europe and weren’t tragic and irredeemable messes like people in South America or Africa. Americans are rock star, and if dinosaurs were alive today people in America would be riding the dangerous ones and eating the herbivores…because that’s just such an American thing to do…to take the dinosaurs God gifted us with and do useful and impressive things with them. People in other countries would just be staring at the damn things (or would be afraid of them)…but Americans would go to town and have a rodeo.
I love that. And I love that Americans are polite and nice and everything…but we’ll also punch you in the face if you deserve it. After an American beats someone else at something and it’s clear that he or she has won, I love that it’s our nature to pull that loser off the ground and try to make friends with the person. A lot of the time, these opponents are intensely stupid and keep trying to mess with us…so they keep getting clobbered…but eventually they end up our allies (like Germany). I love that. No other people in the history of the world have ever been like this. And it just makes me so proud and always fills me with hope for the future because I believe God gifted the world with the American people and it was a mighty generous and amazing thing to do.
I love Justin, but he drains my energy and I just can’t listen to him for long. Life is too short. While I’ve been typing this, he’s been going on about his fears and how things his mother told him last night gave him nightmares. He wants to now share all that with me…I’m not sure why. I don’t know if he has some need to verbalize it all so that he can get it out of his system…or if it’s like a zombie virus and there’s this biological need for him to spread this fear to someone else, since his mother infected him with it. But I have an hourglass on my desk and when he sits on the couch next to my work station and starts up with his nonsense I turn the glass over and give him an hour to talk about his fear…and then he either needs to give it a rest or I leave the apartment to do something productive. I just won’t allow him to steal my entire day from me with this garbage.
I really hope if you’re in a similar situation you will talk openly about it. I think this is one of those moments in history where people are afraid to say things, and so everyone is just carrying around this burden. We’re due for a dam-breaking here…and what I think is happening is that psychologically people are very stressed out right now from one of two things: either they are people like Justin and CarolAnne who are terrified of everything and that causes them stress…or they are like me and are stressed to the breaking point because they are being forced to listen to how perpetually terrified their family members are.
All of this is being caused purposefully by the Left, because it’s one of the Alinsky Tactics to “keep the pressure on” (Rule #8) until “the enemy” is so worn down it just gives up. The Left considers the American people the enemy…and part of its strategy is to freak people out with one outrageous and scary thing after another until it just wears everyone down into exhausted complacency.
It’s working.
I know this because I am personally both mentally and physically exhausted listening to Justin every day. We are at the point where we’re very close to breaking up and him moving back to Arkansas, where he and his mother can talk about their fears to one another in person all day and waste the rest of their lives like that. I just don’t want any part of this any longer. Something has got to change.
Since I can’t control Justin and honestly can’t even get him to listen to reason, I can only adjust my reaction to him. I need to try to find something productive, tangible, and relatively easy to do every day to TAKE ACTION against the Left…in ways that Andrew Breitbart might have thought of if he was still around. Today, since people are going to be protesting the IRS, I know that Andrew would be out there with them. So, that’s what I am going to do here in Chicago. I have no idea what Justin or CarolAnne plan to do with their day, but I doubt it will involve taking any action about anything.
Which is sad. Eternal optimist that I am, though, I hope that if I model better behavior for Justin and give him a live-in example of how taking action is better than sitting around all day talking about his fears or listening to his mother’s paranoia that he will get off his butt and push back against the Left (instead of being just another pushover).
I never regret leaving the house to be part of something…but I would hate myself if I just curled up in a ball and was so cared all the time. Especially being scared of the government…which works for us…and which all of us actually observe and supervise.
Or, should be observing and supervising (for those too scared all the time to be doing what they’re supposed to do).
Today in History: June 19th, 2013 Open Thread
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Here’s another multi-part question about the “gay community” that readers have submitted for our month-long look at bad things gay people do to others that the State Media in this country will never, ever report on…seeing as how the narrative they push is that gay people are perpetual victims, much like black people. So, anything bad that a gay person does must always be ignored by the Ministry of Truth…just like how the State Media contorts itself like Plastic Man to avoid ever shining a light on the terrible things black people do.
A new study being pushed on Drudge Report today shows that only 23% of people in this country believe that what the newspapers and the tee-vee are telling them every day is even remotely true. Who are those 23 people out of 100 who think the State Media is trustworthy at all? Idiots. I swear to you, if it is the very last thing I ever do with my life, I am going to think of a way to get that number down to just 13% of the public believing a damn thing they hear on the tee-vee; newspapers I don’t have to worry about since those will be gone within my lifetime for sure (and probably the next five to ten years). The tee-vee is going to be around for much longer…even if it transitions to becoming an all-digital medium.
Over the next two weekends, various cities are going to be having their “Pride Parades” and the tee-vee is going to tell you how evil you are for judging the obnoxious behavior you will see on your screens; the tee-vee is lying to you, like always, because any nastiness or brattiness happening at any of these events is originating with gay people aiming that evil at others…but most especially Christians. The Pride Parades are not, in fact, occasions for gay people to celebrate “pride” in anything…but they are really just a very strategic weapon the Left uses to declare open war on Christians and conservatives for the entire month of June. They get away with it by showing a lot of rainbows on the tee-vee, or zooming in on hot guys dancing in their speedos a top floats to distract people. As lovely as rainbows and male strippers are (and I admit I’m a big fan), you need to always remember what the propagandists of the Left are really up to with “Pride Parage” coverage: it is ALL ABOUT furthering the Left’s agenda in the Culture Wars and continuing to convince Americans that being a Christian or a conservative is evil and that the various subgroups under the Democrats’ umbrella are all perpetual victims who need your sympathy. In reality, the roles are actually reversed…which you’ll see if you pay closer attention.
One thing in particular I want you to watch for, because it will happen in your state whenever the Pride Parade is held in YOUR biggest city: the tee-vee will show you a handful of random people holding up signs that read “God Hates Fags”…and then they will have a clip of either gay people or heterosexual members of PFLAG denouncing the “God Hates Fags” sign-holders. What the tee-vee never tells you is that the ones who are holding the “God Hates Fags” signs aren’t religious people at all…but in fact are actually either people hired off Craigslist by Leftist groups to be out there or they are members of unions like the SEIU. Those are Democrat operatives out there aping for the cameras so that the tee-vee can have a visual of Christians supposedly attacking gays. The thing is, these people only appear when the State Media wants to push the narrative of gays-as-victims. In Chicago alone, there are hundreds of events a year that these astroturfed “religious zealots” could be disrupting or protesting…but they ONLY show up for the Pride Parade coverage. Why is that? You’d think if they really believed in this “God Hates Fags” stuff that they’d be out every Saturday night in Boystown with their signs, trying to discourage people from patronizing all the bars and other gay businesses in town. But, they don’t do that.
It’s almost as if these “religious zealots” don’t actually exist and are just a cast of characters hired by elements of the institutional Left as some sort of stagecraft to push the desired narrative in June that gays are such victims. Now that I’ve told you to look for this, I hope you can watch for yourself and let me know if you can start seeing through some of the State Media’s deliberate and purposeful lying. The truth is out there if you would just only see it.
QUESTION: You’ve talked a lot lately about a group you call “The Gaystapo” but I don’t really understand who they are. Do they call themselves that or is it something you came up with? What do they do exactly and how are they organized?
ANSWER: I coined the term “The Gaystapo” here on HillBuzz.org in 2010 or so, because that’s around the time that I personally started receiving organized harassment from the “gay community” here in Chicago. Prior to this, I was vaguely aware of bad things that gays as a group would do to others…but I never thought much about how organized an effort this really is.
If you know my personal story of running this site, I used to write anonymously about politics because I live and work in a Leftist-controlled city and at the time I had a business that depended on consulting and freelancing for nonprofits. I still can’t get over the irony of this, but elements of the Left had been trying to “out” my real identity for two years to punish me for first of all supporting Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama in 2008…but then also for backing Sarah Palin and John McCain in the general election; the Left could never figure out my name…until a Cocktail Party Republican named Fran Eaton at the little-read website Illinois Review purposefully outed me for personal reasons (I think it was a favor she did on behalf of my ex-boyfriend, who is a particularly vengeful bisexual still trying to climb the ranks in the Republican Party in Illinois). So, the Left couldn’t do much to me until a Cocktail Party Republican like Fran Eaton helped them…which I think is one of the most telling anecdotes you will ever hear about why so much of the GOP is a very bad thing for this country.
Not long after Fran Eaton outed me as the principle author of HillBuzz, the “gay community” here in Chicago started harassing me…because they didn’t like what I was writing about the bad things “the community” does. Things really heated up in the summer of 2010 because Art Johnston — a man I’ve since identified as the primary Ayatoldja of the Gaystapo here in Chicago — plastered all of the windows of his business, Sidetrack the Video Bar, on Halsted with hateful, nasty signs that maligned Illinois gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady as “a bigot”. It was incredibly vile…and something that Johnston did just to rev up hatred in the “gay community” for both Brady and Christians…since Johnston also used any event held at Sidetrack to make or authorize speeches that told all the unthinking, useful idiot gays in attendance that “Bill Brady is evil!”…”Bill Brady is a crazy Christian!”…”Bill Brady wants to put you in concentration camps!”…and other such nonsense. I’ve told you before that the best way to describe what goes on at Sidetrack during one of these big events (attended by capacity crowds of about 1,200 gay men at a time (and like 5 women with low-self-esteem who hang around gay men like flies on mangos)) is to just refer you to the two-minutes-hates directed at Emmanuel Goldstein in the book/movie 1984:
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The reason I call Art Johnston by the name “The Ayatoldja Johnston” is because he behaves much like the Ayatollah Khomeini did in Iran; Johnston regularly takes the stage at Sidetrack to condemn the “enemies of the gay community” with fatwas he issues, declaring this or that person (such as Bill Brady) a bigot or commanding the useful idiots and drunks assembled in Sidetrack to engage in jihad against other “traitors” and “quislings” (which would be me…and other gay Christians and conservatives out there who speak out against the evil things that the Ayatoldja Johnston does here in Chicago). The State Media enjoys claiming that that Art Johnston is an inductee of the “Chicago Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fame” and that he founded the organization Equality Illinois…but the Left’s propaganda wing doesn’t tell people that Equality Illinois regularly harasses religious people and is essentially just a sock puppet that spreads Johnston’s anti-Christian and anti-conservative messaging for Johnston.
It works like this:
* Art Johnston owns the largest gay bar in Chicago, which makes it probably the largest gay bar between New York and Los Angeles. Though it’s never won Best Gay Bar in the country in any survey I’m aware of, the place is actually quite gorgeous inside and remains extremely popular. Sidetrack is known for flaunting Illinois’ liquor laws by giving away every second or third drink for free…and Johnston never has to account for this because of the clout he has with politicians in this state.
* Attracted by the free drinks and the very beautiful interior of the bar, unsuspecting gays arrive at Sidetrack and receive anti-Christian and anti-conservative indoctrination during an evening at the bar. This is especially true during “Comedy Night” Thursdays when long blocs of virulently anti-Christian “comedy clips” are played that mock Catholics in particular (but never, ever saying a bad word about Muslims). Every event held at Sidetrack is MC-ed by Bradley Thomas Balof, a Chicago public school teacher who moonlights as a male erotic entertainer and also Sidetrack’s master-of-ceremonies; Balof revs up hatred for Christians every time he takes the microphone…and he serves as the Ayatoldja Johnston’s opening act, getting the crowd hungry for the red meat he’ll toss at them under the banner of Equality Illinois.
* The majority of events held at Sidetrack are in some way fundraisers for Equality Illinois…which is basically Art Johnston’s personal Public Action Committee. This is a very common tactic on the Left, to incorporate some sort of supposed non-profit that then does whatever a particular Leftist wants that thing to do…which allows that individual Leftist wiggle room to claim “it’s the organization doing it, not me!”. Another way to look at this is like what Hollywood actors do when they create their little vanity “production companies”; these are ways to move money around with less scrutiny than if they were just operating everything under their actual names.
* Johnston funnels revenue from Sidetrack into Equality Illinois and then uses Equality Illinois to attack Christians and conservatives throughout this state. In the process, he gains a lot of clout with politicians in Illinois such as Rahm Emanuel, Mike Madigan and his daughter Lisa Madigan, Anita Alvarez, Pat Quinn, Dick Durbin, and of course, Barack Obama. This covers the Ayatoldja Johntons’ butt when it comes to things like the liquor laws and also when it comes to mistreating and violating the civil rights of his employees (which he’s being currently sued for in federal court).
* No other bar in Chicago is operated this way and is so directly tied to a Political Action Committee like this. At the other taverns, clubs, and restaurants catering to gay clientele in Boystown there is no hatred being stirred up by the owners against anyone. Those other places are just about having a great time, drinking, dancing, listening to music, and (of course, for a gay bar) hooking up. But, at Sidetrack it’s like the drinking and the having fun is considered secondary to recruiting as many young, unsuspecting gays as possible into the cult of the Left…by the Ayatoldja Johnston CONSTANTLY pushing this “we must unite against our enemies!” Orwellian garbage all the time.
Art Johnston gets away with this for the same reason Sidetrack wins “Best Float!” every year in the annual Pride Parade (no matter how lackluster and amateur the effort): because money talks and the amount of cash that Johnston funnels into the Left via Sidetrack gives him clout enough to have anything he wants in this town. That means he also thinks rules and laws do not apply to him and that he cannot ever be criticized.
The State Media’s at fault for that, because all across the country there are people like Art Johnston who run the “gay community” in all big cities. There are people like this in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, New Orleans, San Francisco, DC, you name it. The men orchestrating the very organized efforts to malign, menace, and harass Christians and conservatives in the “gay community” across the board are what I call “The Gaystapo”. The specific people such as Johnston who are the leaders and funders of these efforts are the gay Ayatoldjas…since they are forever telling other gays the evil things they need to do “to (our) enemies!”.
Can you imagine if Christian or conservative business owners engaged in activities such as Art Johnston’s? The State Media would have those establishments shut down and RICO statutes would probably be applied against any people on the political right who were suspected of colluding against the Left and using their places of business to recruit goons and foot soldiers for their efforts.
But, since Art Johnston is gay and owns a gay bar and his recruitment and fundraising efforts are for a gay organization that hates Christians and conservatives the State Media will never speak a word about any of this.
The Gaystapo is a lot like the krysha that Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Henry Gates and other “Justice Brothers” run in the “black community”; it’s a way for the Left to use specific minority groups as weapons against conservatives. For this sort of racket to succeed, the Gaystapo and the Justice Brothers must enforce strict adherence to the teachings of the Left in their respective “communities”. Any member of these minority groups who strays from the plantation must be destroyed.
With the Justice Brothers, this means regularly pummeling Condoleezza Rice, Allen West, Herman Cain, Ben Carson, Thomas Sowell, and other conservative blacks so a message is sent that if you are a black person who dares to vote Republican or voice conservative views then you will be annihilated. Remember that the State Media will never criticize a black Democrat for anything…and will in fact aggressively protect people like Maxine Waters, Charlie Rangle, John Lewis, James Clyburne, Eric Holder, and (of course) Barack Obama no matter what terrible things they do…because the members of the State Media were taught in journalism school by Leftist professors that blacks are useful tools for the Democrat Party who must always remain useful to Democrats.
Any blacks who don’t toe the party line are smashed to pieces as much as possible whenever the State Media can gin up an excuse to do so. Ann Coulter wrote a wonderful book that addresses some of this (which you can checkout here: www.amazon.com).
The EXACT SAME THING happens with gays…only instead of the Justice Brothers we have the Gaystapo enforcing obedience and allegiance to the Left and the Democrat Party. I think Democrats primarily use blacks as weapons to tear down Republicans and intimidate large corporations, since both of these groups are terrified of ever being called “Ray Ciss”. When the Justice Brothers rev blacks up to shout “Ray Ciss! Ray Ciss! Ray Ciss!” at somebody the end result is that conservatives stupidly abandon that person, for fear of being called “Ray Ciss” themselves. Idiots. For whatever reason, conservatives have still not figured out that the Left will continue to use blacks as weapons until such time as conservative people refuse to be afraid of the “Ray Ciss” theatrics and stop caving into these thugs and bullies all the time.
The Left uses gays as weapons against Christians, because destroying Christianity is a top priority for these lunatics. I don’t even think they know what they’d want to replace it with because at this point the driving forces on the Left are pure irrational hatred and a love of destruction for the sake of destruction…and Leftists themselves behave mostly like mentally ill children who just want to do as much damage as possible to “their enemies”. There’s actually a horror movie coming out later this year called “Cooties” that’s about grade schoolers who are infected with a rage virus and rip the adults in their school to shreds; it could have easily been filmed at the Democrats’ Convention in Charlotte last summer.
On a daily basis, the most frustrating thing about all of this is how unwilling Christian and conservative people are to band together to put an end to any of this nonsense. I wish some of you would either send me an email or comment below on this, but what the Hell are you so afraid of? The only reason bullies ever have any power is because YOU give them that power. Currently, the United States is an apartheid state that is being misgoverned by the Left…but Leftists are a clear minority of the American people. The only reason the Left holds power is because good people are too afraid to speak the truth and point fingers at Leftists and call their conduct unacceptable.
Sure, when you stand up to these bullies they lash out at you — don’t I know it — but after a while you realize that short of murdering you there is not much they can really do to stop you. Ultimately, you reach a point where you see that you can effectively use the Left’s own Alinsky Methods against them and they have absolutely no comeback.
I’ll let you in on a mind-blowing secret, but only if you promise to share it with everyone you know in the Republican Party: the only thing the Left actually has is the Alinsky Rule Book. Since it’s always worked for them, they have no Plan B. There are 13 Alinsky Rules for Radicals that Democrats use in some form every day against Republicans. This is like being in high school and a teacher giving you an open book test that has all the answers on the handout she passed out yesterday, but you for some strange reason flunk the test because you refused to look at what was clearly spelled out for you.
The only way to defeat the Left is to turn the Alinsky Rule Book back on them. They do not know what to do when someone pushes back and uses their own tactics against them. They rage, scratch, and claw…but they do so futily. I don’t think it’s especially fun to be on the receiving end of the harassment the “gay community” is currently aiming at me for writing about the bad things the Gaystapo does in Boystown…but I sure as Hell think it’s important to keep doing so. I figure the Left loses a little bit of power and control for every conservative or Christian out there who reads about the Gaystapo and starts realizing that they don’t have to be afraid of these thugs and bullies.
Please do your part and tell your friends, family, and neighbors that, no matter what the tee-vee lies about says all “Pride” month of June, the real victimizers and bullies operating out there are gays themselves. And you tell them a gay man in Chicago told you that and will keep telling it until the Gaystapo is stopped once and for all.
QUESTION FOR COMMENTS: What other questions do you have about the “gay community” and the bad things that it does to other people…which the State Media purposefully never reports?
What else is on your minds this Wednesday June 19th, 2013?
– Open Thread –
Today in History: June 18th, 2013 Open Thread
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Continuing our look at the bad behavior of the “gay community” in the month of June, here are some more reader submitted questions on things the State Media won’t ever tell you about one of the Democrats’ counted-upon goon squads, The Gaystapo:
1. QUESTION: I notice that whenever you talk about the “gay community” you write it in quotes like that. Why is that?
ANSWER: Yes, I totally use quotes for “gay community” and other terms that the State Media has selected…because in the specific case of the “gay community” I just don’t believe there’s an actual “community” there. It’s funny, but for the past few weeks I’ve been helping my friend Justine find a new apartment for her daughter Cassidy here in Chicago and some of the apartment rental websites laud the “community” feeling of their buildings; this is a branding choice…and I’ve seen that the apartment management companies that use that “community” buzzword tend to be ones that target gays, Lefties with master’s degrees, and gray-haired-hippies. A lot of life today is talked in code…and “community” means something different to people living in Chicago than it would possibly to you.
This is hard to explain, but I think when people here in Chicago say “community” they mean that this is safe Democrat territory and that they’re all committed Obama Kool-Aid drinkers. I’m not talking about politics here, though…but just the Us vs. Them attitude that Democrats foster in all aspects of life. Here in Chicago, hardly any of these people know a thing about what’s going on in Washington legislatively or even what elected officials do…but instead they are just taught that Democrats are good and Republicans are evil…and to be “good” people must thus be as evil as possible to anyone who is not a Democrat. I think by emphasizing that “community” stuff in the rental websites that those companies are trying to recruit fellow-travelers and also simultaneously send a message that if you are not a Lefty that this building is not for you. Because of federal housing regulations they can’t come out and say NO CONSERVATIVES NEED APPLY (though, actually, one apartment rental place actually did that and they got in big trouble for it):
I think when people talk about the “gay community” they are really identifying the Leftist nature of this group…and the fact that they take pride in circling the wagons against their “enemies”. Think of this in gang terms…where saying “we’re the gay community!” is like everyone standing on the corner in matching gang jackets and saying “if you mess with one of us you mess with all of us”. There’s an element of a threat in the word “gay community” that is very subtle, but it’s there if you really think about it in Us vs. Them terms…where “Them” probably means people like you whom the “gay community” might come after some day if you are declared to be one of these “enemies” of the community.
The Ministry of Truth that is our State Media transactions in newspeak oxymorons because apart from the Us vs. Them attitude there is not really much “community” feeling involved in the “gay community”. A real community to me is one where neighbors look out for one another, bring food when someone is sick, help people find jobs who need them, carpool, have keys to each other’s homes and bring in the mail or papers when people are on vacation, etc. I have known a lot of real communities like this…but always in the suburbs…in enclaves of conservative-minded people.
Here in Leftist dominated Chicago there is no real sense of “community” anywhere. People tend to fend for themselves and will not normally help anyone else with anything. However, if “leaders of the community” stand up and point at a collective enemy, Leftists are thrilled to have someone to scream at, berate, or malign side-by-side together. They call this “community”, but it’s really more of an organized mob of hateful people who are happiest when they have a shared target to fix on.
The Left really operates with a hive mentality. When you hear “gay community” or “black community” or “Hispanic community” you really need to see 99% of the people who self-identify as members of that “community” in terms of worker ants who do what the Queen of the “community” tell them to do. In Boystown, I’ve identified the ruling elite of the “gay community” as The Gaystapo…and I coined the term “Ayatoldjas” for the individual big-wigs who send out the directives and set the tone for all the worker ant gays to follow. When an Ayatoldja points at someone and calls that person a “bigot”, for instance, throngs of unthinking gays “in the community” will pour out of the woodwork to scream, yell, shake their butts, and hurl epithets at the designated target.
Of course, this is VERY similar to how Muslims behave…where the imams and ayatollahs pronounce fatwas and issue jihads against specific individuals that are declared enemies of Islam. In Boystown, I have long identified Arthur “Art” Johnston as one of the principle Ayatoldjas who rev the “gay community” up against specific people; since Ayatoldja Johnston owns the largest and most popular gay bar in Chicago (Sidetrack the Video Bar) and hosts regular events where anti-Christian and anti-conservative videos are played or speeches are delivered, the Ayatoldja Johnston behaves much like the Ayatollah Khomeini did back in Iran…informing the unthinking thugs within earshot what nasty things they need to do “to the enemies of our community”.
I’ve never seen anyone really make this connection before, but I think this explains why gays never criticize Muslims (despite Muslims openly murdering gays in any country controlled by Islam); the reason The Gaystapo says nothing bad about Islam is of course partially related to the very real fear that Muslims will murder anyone who criticizes Islam…but also because gays and Muslims share many common operational tactics. All of this is spelled out in both the Alinsky Rules for Radicals and the Koran…which are zealously followed by the thugs and bullies that populate both “the gay community” and Islam (“the Religion of Peace”).
2. QUESTION: Are you ever afraid for your life because you speak out against bad things gay people do?
ANSWER: Funny you should mention that. Early Monday morning June 17th, 2013 I was actually physically threatened by several employees of Sidetrack the Video Bar…who clearly are not pleased by my coverage of the terrible things the Ayatoldja Johnston and his staff of maliciously mischievous bullies do to Christians and conservatives in any proximity to “the gay community”. Twice — and at two different bars in Boystown — I was told specifically that the Ayatoldja Johnston had some sort of meeting about me that directed employees of Sidetrack to “get me”. One employee even said that the Ayatoldja wants my “throat slit”. Clearly, the “gay community” is not happy with me for taking this month-long look at the dark side of the rainbow.
My boyfriend Justin is convinced I’m going to be murdered and even friends of mine in conservative ranks tell me the investigations I’m currently conducting and the stories I’m chasing aren’t “worth getting killed over”. I’m going to upset a lot of people by saying this next part, but I was also told by a pretty prominent conservative writer that I should be more like “the new Breitbart.com” and not be so provocative…because since Andrew Breitbart’s death writers like Joel Pollack, Ben Shapiro, Tony Lee and the rest at Andrew’s old media company have really backed off and don’t engage in the hard-hitting and take-no-prisoners style that Andrew championed. Where Andrew took action and got results every day by being unafraid, the inheritors of his brand seem more interested in just listening to themselves talk and never actually doing very much. I think they’re scared and wonder if any of them succumb to paranoia and conspiracy theories and believe Andrew Breitbart really was murdered by the Left for being such a pain in the Obama Regime’s hopeychange side from 2009-2012.
So far, I’ve not been physically attacked by any Sidetrack employees…but yesterday I was forced to file a Cease & Desist letter with Art Johnston’s attorneys about the menacing and harassing nature of his employees’ behavior towards me while out and about in Boystown. I do not set foot inside Sidetrack itself because I believe I actually might indeed be killed if I did…but I need to be out and about in the bars of Boystown because that’s where I get all the intel for my reporting. I need to go where my sources are and I can’t be bullied into staying away from the Halsted strip just because the Ayatoldja Johnston has seemingly issued a jihad against me.
As I’ve always said: if the Ayatoldja Johnston is upset because I report on the bad things he does in “the community” and particularly inside his bar Sidetrack, then he should stop doing bad things and I’d have nothing to write about. I think I’m actually pretty fair as an essayist and reporter and if Art Johnston ever did in fact abjure the Alinsky tactics he’s long employed against Christians and conservatives (and call on others in the Gaystapo to do likewise) that I would applaud his effort and would happily take a stage with him some time and congratulate him in person for stepping out of the dark side.
I would LOVE to see this self-styled “leader of the gay community” in Chicago openly condemn the bullying, incendiary tactics employed by gays against Christians nationwide. Yesterday, in fact, a group of gays revved up by the videos and the speeches made recently at Sidetrack the Video Bar screamed, yelled, and intentionally disrupted mass held at the Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church on Belmont in Lakeview.
This is a church that the Ayatoldja Johnston has personally targeted for abuse in the last several years…because this particular Catholic congregation stood up for its rights and challenged the timing and parade route for Chicago’s annual Gay Pride Parade (held the last Sunday of June), since the parade disrupts the church’s long-scheduled services. This Catholic congregation has, in fact, existed long before there was ever a “pride parade” on the last Sunday of June and they’ve had the same schedule of religious services for decades. They were there FIRST but they are excoriated as villains by the Gaystapo because they will not go away and be silent when gay bullies so order them.
Is it fair for this church to ask the City to allow its parishioners to be able to attend service without being blocked by the parade (since the parade streams right down Belmont and cuts off access to Mt. Carmel on “Pride Sunday”)? Hell to the YES it’s fair. Why can’t the parade be held on a Saturday instead of Sunday so that it does not interfere with Christian services?
Is it right for the Ayatoldjas of the “gay community” to rev up hatred agains the church because these parishioners have asked for some sort of compromise that would allow both the parade to happen but also for people to be allowed to come to mass without being blocked or harassed? Hell to the NO.
But, this is the hypocrisy of the “gay community” folks. Yesterday, when obnoxious gays revved up by the videos and speeches at Sidetrack attacked Mt. Carmel and screamed “BIGOTS! BIGOTS BIGOTS!” every time the door to the church opened the majority of them were holding signs emblazoned with the logo for “Equality Illinois”; this is the organization that Art Johnston funds with revenue from and events held at Sidetrack the Video Bar. Professionally-made signs and banners with Equality Illinois’ logo on them do not just appear out of thin air, magically, whenever a group of gay bullies needs to harass Christians. You can’t just buy this stuff off the rack at your local Gay-Mart.
This is part of a larger and very orchestrated war against Christianity that the Gaystapo gleefully participates in.
But you would never in a million years see an astroturfed protest like this in front of a mosque. Gays are only bullies to people who they know won’t do very much to stand up for themselves…but gays are terrified of ever offending Islam because they know that Muslims will in fact slit their throats and behead them in the streets.
My boyfriend Justin and (of course) his mother CarolAnne believe I should be afraid that the Ayatoldja Johnston has called for jihad against me in the “gay community”…because I think he believes that dispatching his Sidetrack employees to menace and harass me wherever they find me will make me shut up and end my challenges to the hateful, malicious, and Alinsky-fueled activities the Gaystapo engages in here in Chicago. While this is all happening in every single city with a large gay population, I have identified the Gaystapo’s principle Ayatoldja in Chicago and will continue to document the vile things that he and his employees keep doing in this city. Until they stop, behave themselves, and truly form a loving and safe community that respects others in the way that gays are always shouting for Christians to respect them. Ironically, I refer you to Alinsky Rule #4: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules for others.
I loved Andrew Breitbart because he had enough of the Left’s Alinsky garbage and wasn’t afraid if they killed him for calling them out on the evil things the Left does. I feel exactly the same about Art Johnston and his maliciously mischievous bullies at Sidetrack the Video Bar. I am not going anywhere. I will not stop writing about the persecution of Christians and conservatives these people engage in. If they lay a hand on me, I will urge their prosecution for assault and will ensure that Art Johnston himself is held vicariously liable for the actions of his employees (since it is so clear that he personally is allowing, encouraging, and inciting these guys to menace and harass me).
And, just for sake of argument, if Justin and CarolAnne are ever right and any of these people do kill me…trust that I have a Doomsday Scenario plan in place for that. Everything I have ever collected on every single operative of the Left that I’ve been holding as life-insurance for myself will be released by friends in many different states if thugs like the Sidetrack Gang do indeed murder me. Something tells me more level-headed members of the institutional Left don’t want that to happen…and will hopefully rein the Ayatoldja Johston in and force him to rescind his jihad against me.
I am afraid enough for my safety at this point to share this all with you…but I’m going to channel Andrew Brietbart’s spirit and will keep doing what I am doing since the State Media will never report on anything bad that the “gay community” does. As a nation we need to call gays out for thuggish, bullying behavior and stand up for all the Christians and conservatives out there who are too easily threatened and never stand up for themselves.
Haven’t you had enough of the gay goon squad using June to pummel Christianity? When on Earth are you going to be a little bit Breitbart and say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and force gays to adhere to the same standards of behavior that they demand from others?
QUESTION FOR COMMENTS: What else do you want to know about the “gay community”? No holds barred, no topic off limits.
What else is on your minds this Tuesday June 18th?
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Today in History: June 16th, 2013 Open Thread
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Today is Father’s Day…and it’s also a week before the large-scale “Pride” events take place here in Chicago. So, I’ve tried to collect questions people have submitted about the role of fathers in a gay guy’s life and will attempt to answer some of these queries today about the relationships a lot of gay guys have with their dads. This is part of our ongoing month-long look at everything you may have ever wondered about the “gay community” but were always afraid to ask; since our first gay president Barack Obama officially declared June to be “Pride Month” and the State Media continues to use June to paint gays as perpetual victims of evil, persecution-prone Christians…I think it’s only appropriate that we look at all of the things that Democrats don’t like to address when it comes to gays.
1. QUESTION: Do gays have good relationships with their fathers when they are growing up? Does a man turn his son gay by doing something wrong as a father that leads his son to be gay?
ANSWER: I’ve noticed a very interesting pattern that’s held true with almost everyone I’ve known in the “gay community” since I came out at age 18…and that’s the consistent fact that most gay guys are closer to their mothers than their fathers…and with lesbians, it’s the reverse. There seems to be strong anecdotal evidence that suggests gay guys tend to have better adult friendships with their mothers…while lesbians tend to be closer to their dads; the really interesting thing, though, is that growing up and before coming out gay guys seem to have fought more with their mothers and lesbians appear to have battled it out with their fathers…while the same-sex parents were distant or nonexistent in their lives. Additionally, the opposite-sex parent seems to have been largely oblivious to the son or daughter being gay while the same-sex parent picked up on something “being different” super early (and often earlier than the gay person him or herself even realized he or she was “different”).
One of the things that Leftists enjoy doing is claiming that you can’t generalize or stereotype (except whenever that works to Democrats’ advantage, of course). But, I think that’s garbage and believe that stereotypes exist for a reason…and that’s because patterns do in fact emerge in people’s behavior and general rules can be culled from observing things that happen over and over again in certain demographic groups. The Left enjoys playing Devil’s Advocate and insisting that if one example can be found that disproves a stereotype then you have to abandon it…but that’s just more Alinsky nonsense from these dangerous loons. Don’t listen to them. Stereotypes are great because they are a kind of cultural shorthand that comes in handy all the time. I love them!
The vast majority of gay guys I know fought like cats and dogs with their mothers when they were growing up…but almost none of the straight men I know had much conflict at all with their mothers as kids; as adults, something weird happens and gay guys become closer to their moms than the straight guys are with their mothers. In fact, when their mothers are like Debbie Reynolds’ age, gay guys are taking their moms to drag shows and male strip clubs. It’s hilarious…and the mothers make sure to tell every jockstrapped go-go-boy in a bar how proud they are of their gay sons.
With lesbians I know, their dads were the targets of their teenaged angst…but then become confidantes when these lesbians become adults; straight girls are usually “daddy’s girls” growing up and that doesn’t seem to change much when they are older (and straight women seem to stay “daddy’s girls” to their dads and never become as close of adult friends with their fathers as they are with their mothers). Straight girls tend to revere their fathers while telling their mothers all their secrets…and the fathers are supposed to always see the daughters as virginal, perfect perpetual sixteen year olds. Lesbians, meanwhile, learn auto mechanics and technical skills from their dads and have long and involved conversations with them about investments, real estate, general contracting, hunting, and other things that even straight boys don’t get much counsel from their dads on. I don’t know of any lesbians who sit around drinking beer and talking to their fathers about Playboy centerfolds…but I also don’t know many dads who give their straight sons the kind of in-depth life advice about financial matters and practical things that the fathers of lesbians give their daughters.
It’s pretty fascinating, really…and it would be fun to apply for a multi-million dollar federal grant to study all of this in exhaustive detail (since, at this point, if you aren’t looting the Treasury alongside everyone in the Obama Regime then you are missing the whole point of the Golden Age of Hope and Change), but I think there is a repeating pattern that with gay people the opposite-sex parent is the antagonist in childhood but then somehow the gay kid becomes an adult who is much closer to the opposite-sex parent than the same-sex parent after age 27 or so. I don’t know what’s so special about age 27…but almost every gay person I know has a life that can be looked at as “Before he turned 27″ or “After he turned 27″. My boyfriend Justin thinks something to do with brain development happens around this age and people just fully “bake” into their adult selves (instead of the mostly raw cookie dough that defines adolescence and the slightly-gooey nearly-there imperfection of early adulthood).
This might be happening even younger for kids who come out in high school (or even grade school) than it did for my age-peers and people older than me, since up until the Millennial generation it was most common for people to come out and embrace their sexuality in college (after age 18)…and being “out” in high school was almost unheard of (especially for people older than Gen X/Gen Y). Double all this for anyone growing up in Cleveland, Ohio (where I am from) or even more remote places like rural Arkansas (from which Justin hails).
On a very personal level, it’s 100% clear to me as I sit and type this at age 36 that my mother knew I was gay about 10 years before I figured it out…and it made her really uncomfortable. My mother and I used to spend a lot of time together by default, since my dad was always off doing something that he enjoyed more than spending time with us; it was always a bowling league, a basketball pick-up game, a flag football match, soccer, hockey, or whatever. That left me home with my mother…and that usually would mean she’d somehow trick me into doing chores at church, “volunteering” without any choice or say in the matter for some community project or another, or helping with whatever my Grandma Emma needed (since my mother’s mother only lived a few blocks away and my mom would do something for her every day…which meant I was conscripting into helping).
I always thought things like baseball or basketball were stupid and pointless and to this day don’t “get” the fun in competing in something that has no consequence. I always loved competition…but I liked it best in terms of getting a good grade on school papers or building a project to win the science fair or drawing a picture that would place high in the local stamp design competition or whatever. Chasing a ball around on a field for several hours just seemed dumb to me when at the end of all that nothing was really decided and no one much cared who won or lost. I still don’t know how grown men can sit around enthralled by ESPN…unless they are secretly gay and are just checking out the young sweaty guys on display (for this reason I am convinced that ESPN actually has more gay viewers than the Tony Awards or Oscars combined). As an adult, a fun day for me is still going to a School Board meeting and demanding to know why a male stripper and erotic entertainer is teaching sixth grade or flustering docents at a museum by challenging all the “global warming” propaganda in the exhibits…and most certainly not running around chasing a ball and trying to kick it into something. I thrive on competition and confrontation…but in decidedly different arenas than I’m supposed to.
I’ve mentioned this story before, but I can clearly remember my mother freaking out when some high school guy in a letterman’s jacket checked me out at the mall when I was around 14 or 15…but I was clueless about what happened. She and I would fight over stupid stuff all the time, or it would be arguments over the fact she’d “tricked” me again into scrubbing the floors of our church with Murphy’s oil soap all Saturday when she told me we were actually going to the mall to get me art supplies I needed for school. The street we lived on back in Cleveland was situated so that at the end of our block if my mom turned left in the car we’d get to the freeway and would actually go to the mall (or wherever she said we were going)…but if she turned right, we’d really be going to either Grandma Emma’s house (to do chores for her) or to church (to do chores there for other people). I remember holding my breath and saying “please turn left, please turn left, please turn left” because every time we’d get in the car I’d hope that my mother had listened and that she wasn’t going to lie anymore about where we were going that day…and that if she said we were going to lunch and buying school clothes or whatever that this is what we would really be doing…but, instead she’d say we were only “going to drop off raffle tickets” or just “picking up some banana bread from Grandma’s”. I can’t remember a single time when we really in fact just dropped something off or picked something up and didn’t get roped into hours of “volunteer work” when I thought we were headed to Chi Chi’s at Great Northern Mall and then on to Office Max for new binders.
I laugh, because at 36 I actually pull this kind of stuff on my boyfriend Justin all the time without really thinking about it. Just the other day I was telling my good friend Justine (who has a daughter around Justin’s age) that I understand my mother so much better now than I ever did at 26 or certainly 16. I can even imagine why she pulled the “turn right instead of turn left onto the freeway” stunts all the time…she just didn’t want to have the argument about me not wanting to go to Grandma’s again or not wanting to spend the day scraping wax out of the bottom of metal candle-holders with butter knives at church all Saturday…and she figured if I was in the car and it was moving that she’d never have to have that pre-car fight. I’d pout and would roll my eyes as soon as the car started turning right…but it was just the big charade we’d stage since I’d end up doing whatever she wanted me to anyway. I’d grumble, of course, until we got to church and then I’d be smiling and charming in front of the priest and church ladies and the ever-watching eyes of all the many statued saints…because that’s how I was taught to behave in public and my mother counted on my manners giving her whatever she wanted that day.
With Justin, he’s just extremely lazy and won’t leave the apartment unless he absolutely has to…which means that if we are going somewhere for any reason at all I just instinctively seize the opportunity of being in the car to knock out a couple other errands too. Because I don’t know when it will be that I get him in the car again (and I don’t drive myself). Like, if we have to drop off a package at the post office for his baby niece Astor…I’ll wait until he’s in the car and then rush back into the apartment with a bunch of cardboard boxes that have been sitting on our back porch needing to go to the recycling center (which is on the way to the post office); of course, on the way back from mailing the present to Astor I’ll have him pop over to the grocery store (so that I don’t have to walk up there later to get us supplies). If he’s being crabby about any of this, I’ll think of something really oddball to do after that (like hunting for the impossible-to-find Lay’s Chicken & Waffles flavor potato chips at Target or wherever)…since if he’s in a bad mood already, I do what my mother did and just keep pushing ahead since I know he can’t get much more upset than he already is (thanks, Mom!). Justin absolutely hates this, because in his mind he was just going to the post office because he truly had to…and he doesn’t care much that I see this trip in the car as a rare opportunity to get as much crossed off my to-do list as possible (or to hunt for novelty snack foods like Ahab after whales).
My mother was strategic with her trips in the car exactly like this and saw me as available labor to help knock things off her own to-do list; she also loved to talk and enjoyed having someone to listen to her when she was driving (and strangely here in 2013 Justin is a real chatterbox and loves being listened to as well…so if you felt bad for Justin a second ago you should know that he gives as good as he gets when he’s in that car). The fact that we typically never got around to doing whatever I wanted to do when I stepped into the vehicle wasn’t so much her lying about where we were going as it was her believing she could just quickly do some errands…and then eventually do what we were supposed to do. However, Grandma Emma and the church ladies we’d encounter would want to talk…and talk…and talk…and the day would get away from us. 25 years later, with most of these people long gone and even our old church razed to the ground after being closed by the Diocese, I actually think it’s all sort of sweet…and some days would give almost anything to be back there in Cleveland in 1987 scrubbing the floors under the pews at St. Andrew’s with Murphy’s oil soap while Grandma Emma held court with the Ladies’ Guild somewhere in the Rectory talking about people behind their backs (bless their hearts) or planning the next roast beef dinner or Bazaar carnival.
So, I too, have transitioned from seeing my mother as an antagonist to viewing her as a nice lady who did the best that she could and had good intentions; in Cleveland, we’d call this “meaning well”…regardless of the outcome. I am too old and have been through too much to hold any resentment towards her for anything and enjoy believing she really did the best she could with what she had to work with…in the same way that I wake up each morning with limited time and resources but a sisyphean to-do list. Having a gay kid really threw her for a loop because I don’t think that was a possibility she ever considered back in the Carter Administration when she was 23 and pregnant with me; I doubt she even believed gay people were real and probably thought they were just a joke like Billy Crystal on “Soap”. I know she was not delighted to deduce I was gay and put together the pieces of that puzzle before I did…especially not in the 1980s when AIDS just terrorized people’s imaginations…and I bet all of Cleveland pretty much believed that a gay guy would die a horrible death as a wasted-away, walking corpse like people had seen with Rock Hudson.
They “gay community” is actually really determined to alienate young gay guys from their families…and I think this works pretty well with guys when they are just coming out…but the spell really does break around age 27 or so. This is because “gay activists” enjoy telling young gay guys fresh on the bar scene that their parents were monsters for not accepting them for who they are or immediately joining PFLAG…or for not mimicking Sharon Gless’ character Debbie Novotny from “Queer As Folk” (who was a flamboyant, rainbow-loving, loud woman who was more excited about her son Michael being gay than he was…see below). Language warning, though…as Debbie can make sailors blush with her vocabulary.
Someone like Mrs. Novotny is who gay activists proclaim every mother has to be..for her to sufficiently “accept” her son…but I don’t think it’s fair to dictate that every mother of a gay son needs to cover herself in rainbows, slap on a Ronald McDonald wig, and sling hash in a 24-hour gay restaurant in Boystown to prove her bona fides. I’m laughing because I actually remember that my mother had a rainbow car air freshener that hung from her rearview mirror all through the late-80s and into the early-90s, and she loved it so much she had a little stack of them in the glove compartment for when one of them went stale. And then around the time that older boy checked me out at the mall everything rainbow-oriented in the house disappeared…including the reserves of air fresheners in the car. I’ve always known my mother didn’t do this as some kind of an F-U to me…but that’s how “gay activists” would paint it. ”See”, they’d whisper…”She hates her gay son, so she hates the rainbows…and this is why you must now hate her in return!”.
The only way I can really describe these people is by referring you to the eels Flotsam and Jetsam in Disney’s version of The Little Mermaid (less swearing in this clip, I promise):
“Gay activists” are very much like these eels. They’re a sort of predator in the “gay community” that seek out youth who have just come out or who are in the process of doing so…and the activists endeavor to pull these young guys away from their families. They tell fledging gays that their families are evil and were always terrible to them…but that they can have a happy life “in the community” far away from their parents. Then they sell the young gays all sorts of eel snake oil about how their mothers and fathers will never understand or appreciate them…but the colorful characters of the “gay community” will embrace them and love them…so long as they vote Democrat and take up positions as foot soldiers in the gay ranks of the Culture Wars. Stray from the Democrats’ planation, however, and Ursula the Sea Witch has got nothing on what the Gaystapo will do to a free-thinking gay man who rejects the Left’s cultural programming. Trust me on that.
It’s sick…but these eels are incredibly effective. In just my years here in Chicago I’ve seen so many young gay guys pulled deep into the Left by these creatures. Some of them never reemerge as anything like the people they were before the Gaystapo laid claim on them.
But, the situation’s not hopeless. As I said, age 27 seems to be a magical time in a gay guy’s life because it’s around then that the eels lose their influence and a lot of guys restore relationships with their mothers…and then after that, their fathers. The fathers are almost always last, though. Even for lesbians. I don’t know why.
The reason for this is very complicated…but it might have something to do with the same-sex parent having more of a problem with the child being attracted to members of the same gender. Maybe there’s less ice to thaw with a mother because she can mentally understand an attraction to hot men (since she liked Tom Cruise and Matthew Broderick back in the day…so maybe it’s easier for her to wrap her head around why her son is so into Henry Cavill and Matt Bomer in 2013) but a father will never “get” why his son finds other dudes so appealing.
I bet a lesbian could have written much more about fathers than I ever could, even on Father’s Day, but my dad just was never a big part of my life. I probably can remember a dozen conversations I ever had with him that didn’t involve him yelling about something or making fun of me…but with hindsight here at age 36 I know he never meant any harm. I have to explain to Justin all the time that in Cleveland there’s a very weird sense of humor called “funnin” (no “g” at the end of that…and absolutely no actual “fun” in the process) whereby people tend to “joke” with one another by saying insulting things, Rodney Dangerfield/Joan Rivers style. Everyone’s supposed to laugh at themselves and not take any of it personally…but I always hated it. My dad LOVED this sort of insult humor, though, and I think his way of being playful with me was to “joke” like that…never really understanding that I thought it was all extremely hurtful and self-esteem-destroying….whereas he just saw it as “funnin”. So, him telling me I acted like “a little sissy” or that I “ran like a girl” or whatever was interpreted differently by our two very different brains.
In all my years, the only other place I’ve ever seen this done outside of Cleveland is actually in Arab cultures…where it’s this weird badge of honor to think up fast-paced insults for someone…and then the other person has to volley them right back at the instigator with even more biting disparaging…and then everyone embraces and laughs heartily like nothing at all about this was passive-aggressive and twisted.
Addressing the “question of the day” today, I don’t believe that fathers can turn their sons gay…because I saw my dad as a jerk for most of my life because of his proclivity for “funnin”…and by this logic wouldn’t you think I’d never want to be with a guy because my dad was so unpleasant for me to deal with? You’d think that would be the last thing I’d want to experience as an adult…since my male role models were all “funners” who were toxic to be around.
I also don’t think it’s fair to say that because my father was always off playing sports in those “Peter Pan” adult football, basketball, soccer and other leagues that he didn’t do enough with me and that made me gay. I think that correlation is not causation in this case, because being gay made me not interested in playing those games…and since he liked sports himself he wasn’t going to let the fact that I didn’t like them stop him from getting exercise and having friends and playing those games. So, he just did what he wanted to do and left me at home since he had sense enough to know I’d be miserable if I was dragged to the basketball court and didn’t want to be there. Would I have rather had him be miserable sitting at home and not doing that stuff just because I didn’t seem to want any part in it? The eels of the Gaystapo would say YES!…but I think those people are idiots.
My dad was a very inventing and crafty guy who built a pool in our backyard because he knew I liked to swim…and in the winter one year when a freak surge of rain flooded the backyard and then immediately froze, he actually rigged up a makeshift ice skating rink back there and bought me a pair of skates. I actually got into hockey as a result of that, which is the one sport I know anything about. Through the years, this has really come in handy when I’ve worked in offices because I am incredibly adroit at turning any conversation to hockey if straight guys are talking sports and try to include me…but I don’t know a thing about baseball, football, or whatever. I am really great at derailing whatever they were talking about and start going on about the Lake Erie Monsters, the Cleveland Barons, or the Pittsburgh Penguins and I skip around through all sorts of decades to make it as confusing as possible for non-hockey-loving straight guys (which is the majority of these people in offices) and then suddenly everyone wants to get back to work and shut up. It’s my number one favorite office survival skill and it has never failed me.
My dad also used to play Star Wars action figures with me…where we’d set the little guys up behind little forts made of cardboard and we’d use these foam-shotting guns that he bought us and we’d have to take out each of the little figures like snipers; whoever still had at least one figure standing at the end won…and my dad never let me win at anything. If I beat him, I beat him…but he had no qualms about trouncing me at anything. I could lose one hundred games in a row and he would laugh in my face because I hadn’t thought up a strategy for beating him. And when I did win, he wouldn’t stand there and be proud or anything…he’d just be pissed and would redouble his efforts to clean my clock another hundred times.
I admire and respect that at 36 because I’ve always felt that my successes in life were my own and I never believed anything was handed to me. ”Winning” always means something to me…and I think I respect the arena of competition more as a result. To this day, I’ve never had an opponent as aggressive or unyielding as my own father…not even in the arena of politics.
Great Merciful Zeus, I really miss my dad today. I didn’t see that coming. Like my mom, I know he did the best he could with me. The “gay community” won’t admit this to you, ever, but I think raising a gay kid is a unique challenge that some people aren’t prepared for. It’s a real curve ball…and parents ARE NOT BAD if they don’t handle this perfectly. I know my parents still love me even if we’re estranged because I’m gay…and I also know that if I ever needed them that they’d be there for me. As off-doing-his-own-thing as my father was when I was a kid, if anyone ever messed with me and I couldn’t handle it myself he’d roar to my defense like a saber-toothed tiger. I remember one time a nun at school hit me repeatedly on the ears for coloring the sky on a worksheet purple instead of blue (because I wanted it to be night and for some reason Sister Mary Howard couldn’t handle that)…and when my father heard she’d beat on me in the classroom it was like the Fury of Olympus was directed at that school; he had the principal, the pastor, and that wayward nun in sniveling in tears as he explained to the three of them (like they were small children) that adults do not ever hit students…and he then made each one of these grown people apologize to me and explain why what the nun did was wrong. He didn’t sue the school (like I would have), he didn’t demand the teacher be fired (like i also would have done), and he didn’t publicize it as a national issue (I detect a distinct pattern here)…he just scared the everliving s*** out of all three of them but reigned the fury in just before one of them had a heart attack.
It’s remarkable, but on the few occasions when Justin’s made negative remarks about either of my parents he says that my eyes “go black”, my spine stiffens, and Justin claims “it looks like lightning’s about to shoot out of (my) fists” as I tell him to back off and not criticize people he’s never met and doesn’t understand. I similarly avoid criticizing his parent’s rearing of him and the choices they made in Justin’s upbringing…because I think it’s just beyond trashy to sit in judgment of another person’s parenting style…PARTICULARLY when things involve parents who were thrown the curve ball of raising a gay kid.
I respect my parents more today than I ever did growing up and I regret not having this wisdom back when we were still living under the same roof…or on occasions in the past when I could have thanked them for being awesome or understood them when they were frustrating to me.
At age 36, I am fully aware I have somehow managed to pick up nearly every one of my parents’ worst traits…including the strategically maneuvering the car to head towards any and all errands thing. But I like to think I have the best of them too…on top of doing things my own way as a writer and operative in the digital age. I think I have my mother’s cunning and strategic mind…and I have my dad’s sabertooth smile when needed. They both sort of had the black eyes and lightning bolt stuff that Justin so memorably described…but I think that’s a Cleveland thing that’s picked up just by growing up in Thunderdome. I’m proud to be a son of Cleveland…and my parents’ son as well, faults and all.
When my father was my-age-now he had an 11 year old boy to look out for who didn’t like sports, but who loved “Dynasty” and “Dallas” on tee-vee and who was clearly not ever going to be interested in either girls or growing up to a life in Cleveland. The Flotsam and Jetsam of the “gay community” have honestly drilled into my head since I was 18 that my father should be hated for not being thrilled by this…but I think fairness dictates that I realize no one can ever say how my dad “should” have reacted to the situation. He was who he was in the time and place that he lived in…just as I am now here in Chicago in 2013.
Would I have wanted him to be like fathers on tee-vee who were automatically supportive of everything and who always had the perfect thing to say? Hell to the NO. I never thought the tee-vee dads were all that great…and I am not a kumbaya, everything’s always smooth-sailing sort of guy. I think it would be creepy, actually, if my dad was super-supportive of my being gay and was thrilled by it. How WEIRD would that be to talk about guys with him? It would be weird to do that with my mother, too, but I think this is also a cultural thing with how I was raised and the dynamics of my family. I know some gays just love talking about hot guys with their moms…but that’s as alien to me as working on a carburetor with my dad. Not going to happen in this or any lifetime.
Being with Justin has been such an eye-opening life experience for me because I never realized that growing up in Cleveland I am actually a lot more formal than a lot of people I encounter. Justin’s family belches and passes gas at the dinner table and they all laugh and think that’s just hilarious (like in that movie The Krumps, only Eddie Murphy doesn’t play all of these people). Never in a million years would that have happened in my house. Justin’s mother calls him every single day for three-hour conversations about everything she is terrified of and all the people plotting against her…and I don’t think I ever remember a single time either of my parents talked to me about fears or showed any sort of weakness at all. Justin’s dad drinks beer, gets drunk and loud, and does Reese Witherspoon impressions around town and everyone thinks it’s a spectacular badge of honor…while I think the only time I ever saw either of my parents imbibe alcohol was a single Blue Hawaii during a Don Ho-style dinner show at the Pacific Pearl Polynesian Restaurant back in Ohio or a little champagne on New Year’s Eve (the smallest bottle possible, with most of it poured down the drain at 12:15am 1/1/Whatever).
I like being more formal than people in Arkansas (and/or Reese Witherspoon too)…even though I think there’s nothing wrong with them being however they want to be. I like this in the way that I love being Catholic instead of Protestant…and the way I do like being gay over straight. It’s hard to articulate, but all of this is just part of my cultural heritage, upbringing, and (for lack of a better word) “wiring”. I’m thankful for all of it and wouldn’t change a damn thing. It’s what makes me “me” and I celebrate it all.
I guess I’ll close this “answer” to the original question presented by saying that only the person involved in a relationship can say whether it’s “good” or “bad” because those terms are just so charged and pregnant with all manner of meaning. A lot of gay people will tell you they have terrible relationships with their parents or that they had such awful childhoods…but you need to be skeptical when listening to this garbage. Remember that a lot of gay people fall victim to those elapine “activists” of the Flotsam and Jetsam variety who have a clear agenda in getting as many gay people as possible to declare their parents terrible. Do not ever — not for a Cleveland minute — facilitate this sort of garbage because it only helps the Left.
Optimistically, I think at some point every gay person just naturally stops listening to these duplicitous eels and starts hearing what’s in his or her own heart…and the version of the past that got all twisted up and negated for so many years ultimately is restored to some sense of reality in time. Not all prodigal sons and daughters ever return home…but I’ve seen more than enough of these reunions to know that the “gay activists” lose in the end just as often as they “win” and these monsters don’t keep all families ripped apart.
The Left is a powerful, dark force…but in the end it’s no match for love.
QUESTION FOR COMMENTS: What else would you like to know about the gay community in general? What else don’t you understand as we look at June, “the Pride Month”? No topic is off the table, folks…so if you want to know about it then ask about it.
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ACTION: Buy A Copy of 1984 Today on AMAZON
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Drudge Report flashed a story yesterday that sales of George Orwell’s “1984″ have surged by 69% on Amazon in the wake of the latest Obama Regime scandals. Today, Breitbart.com claims “1984″ has reached a 91% increase in sales.
Do you own a copy of “1984″?
I had an old, battered paperback copy from high school…but actually ordered a Kindle electronic version and picked up a hardcover edition for 1-cent (plus $3.99 shipping). I’d personally love to see a 1000% surge in the sale of this book…a number so large that the media can’t ignore the phenomenon. If every conservative person in the country bought a copy of “1984″ today, that would happen.
I’m an Amazon Prime member so I can watch the movie version of “1984″ for free…which I also plan on doing. But, if you like collecting DVDs there is no better time than right now to buy yourself a copy of this movie on disk.
If you are upset by what you’re hearing about the IRS, the NSA, the Justice Department, and Homeland Security these days…be part of something and send a message by picking up a copy of “1984″ for your family and friends. You can do what I did and look for used copies for 1-cent and after shipping it’s $4 a copy…so that’s affordable if you want to get a bunch of these and hand them out to your kids, grandkids, or neighbors.
I actually think I might do this and spend $20 for five copies…and just pick five houses around us and leave these on their porches with a note inside saying “I never thought it would happen in real life, but this is what Hope and Change has brought us in 2013″.
Just to get people in the neighborhood here in Chicago talking.
Why not consider this where you live?
I know money is tight everywhere…but this is worth skipping Starbucks or other treats for a while…just to drive the sales of “1984″ sky high on Amazon.
Today in History: Tuesday June 11th, 2013 Open Thread
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Since June is “Pride Month” (as officially designated by our “first gay president” Barack Obama), I think it’s important to take a look as the “dark side of the rainbow” that the media never addresses with the gay community. Hence, ask any question you like about gay people and how they’re often useful idiots for the institutional Left and I’ll answer it in these Open Threads every day for the month of June:
1. QUESTION: As I understand gay sex, a man is trying to put his penis inside some opening usually on another man. Isn’t this pretend hetero sex? Jokes that spew anger at a woman’s anatomy which is the perfect recepticle, sounds like a clever, creative way of referring the anxiety of being a misfit.
ANSWER: Well, the first thing you should know is that not all gay guys are into anal sex…but that straight guys are actually probably more into it at this point, since internet porn that’s been sexualizing the Millennial generation has made this something that straight teens and twenty-somethings are fascinated by. I think it’s gross and insultingly heteronormative…and I think it was the 1970s and 80s porn that pushed it on the “gay community”.
I wish I could remember what documentary this was in, but a gay historian in some movie (it might have been this one: Gay Sex in the 70s…www.amazon.com) talked about how anal sex was heavily promoted in the 1970s in porn movies…and how this culture developed in gay circles that if you weren’t doing this then something was wrong with you. So there was intense pressure to do this, even if you didn’t want to engage in it. Self-styled activists claimed that gay guys needed to do this as an affront to religious people…since it had shades of Sodm & Gamorrah to it…and any self-respecting gay man had to have as much anal sex as possible because it offended religious sensibilities. You should know by now that upsetting religious people is a high priority for gay “activists” eight days a week.
Perversely, all that anal sex led to the explosion of HIV/AIDS transmission…which was a twisted and ironic consequence of deliberately convincing the “gay community” that it needed to engage in anal sex (which, apparently before the 1970s, was not something gay guys automatically did). If not for that push to stick it to religious people by doing the first thing that Bible-quoters scolded gay people for doing, then maybe the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s wouldn’t have happened (at least not to the extent that it did). The Gaystapo leadership, of course, will never take any responsibility for this.
Through the years, I’ve heard a few gay “activists” actually come around to the notion that anal sex is heteronormative behavior that’s trying to force two guys to approximate what a man and woman would be doing sexually…and that this can’t be a good thing because gay people shouldn’t ape what straight people are up to. This is how I feel about “gay marriage” and the “commitment ceremonies” that some gay people want to have…which are just surreal bastardizations of weddings that straight people have.
I’m not a straight person and I am not interested in having a “gay version” of anything that straight people do. No thanks. I like to think I’m more creative and original than that…and that I can invent something of my own for occasions where I’d like to mark an occasion or celebrate something in my own way as a gay man…but I DO NOT WANT a “gay equivalent” of something from the straight world. To me, this is like going to the store and buying RC or store-brand generic cola when the clearly best thing on the shelf is Coke. But, for whatever reason I can’t have the Coke…so I am expected to settle and be happy with the RC or whatever. No thanks. I’ll instead grab some club soda, some fresh pomegranates, a bag of cherries, and make my own juice cocktail that I like better (and is better for me) than the Coke.
Gay people can be really stupid sometimes. I know the media tells you that we’re all clever and funny and so stylish or whatever, but really the “gay community” at large is pretty unthinking and generally just does whatever the Gaystapo leadership tells these people to do. Since anal sex is promoted in porn and it’s depicted as the thing to do for young gay guys, people do it. And, of course, they do it “bareback” (which means without protection) so that HIV/AIDS is spreading at an escalated rate these days. That’s all part of the institutional Left’s plan to infect as many gay men as possible…and thus keep the community under Democrats’ control, with AIDS medications dangled over their heads as a reason to keep voting Democrat forever.
I got into a lot of this yesterday…so scroll down for more on the deliberate spread of HIV in the “gay community” by the institutional Left.
2. QUESTION: I read that sexual assaults in the military have gone up 35%, with most of the increase being attributed to male on male sexual assaults. Does this happen a lot among gay guys? What about lesbians? Do they report it?
ANSWER: This is one of those things where you can’t really believe the statistics being put forward right now. I read that the military recently changed what it considered “sexual assault”…and that term was purposefully widened to include things like pats on the behind…which are gestures of camaraderie that most people who played team sports growing up are familiar with. Suddenly, something like that is being considered “sexual assault”. I also heard that wrestling and other male-on-male horseplay is now being considered “sexual assault” as well…which might be coming as quite the shock to guys who are doing this to one another, since most of them are not gay and don’t mean anything gay in their horsing around.
This is just an example of the military being weakened with this politically-correct garbage. Straight guys are always little boys inside to some extent, and guys like to wrestle and play around. This is especially true if you think about the age of the guys in the military: they are in their late teens to mid-20s, for the most part. Every single military guy I’ve ever known has described the experience as intense “brotherhood”…and the guys in his troop or platoon or whatever were the closest friends he’s ever had. There is nothing sexual in the love that these guys in the military have for each other…and it’s really like a brotherly love that now is being criminalized because of the knee-jerk “everything is sexual assault!” screeching going on.
I smell a rat in this. It feels like someone with an anti-gay agenda is ginning up these numbers so that this group can then say, “See! Lookit! It was a bad idea to allow openly gay people in the military! They are assaulting everybody!”. No, that’s not what’s happening…it’s that someone in the institutional Left adjusted the definition of “sexual assault” recently so that EVERYTHING under the sun is now considered assault…probably just to cause chaos and trouble and to weaken the military’s morale. Which is always a goal of the institutional Left.
I’ve had 16 boyfriends of note in my life, and four of them were military guys (two Marines, an Army Ranger, and one Naval officer); all of them were great guys who loved being in the service…and they had to hide who they really were in order to serve. They were great in their roles in the military…but I can’t help believing they would have been EVEN BETTER had they been allowed to truly be themselves and not have to spend part of their energy every day hiding their sexuality for fear of being maliciously persecuted by agenda-driven officers and booted out of the service at any time. Because that’s what happened under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell…there was blackmail, an ever present threat of someone who didn’t like you outing you just to get rid of you, people who wanted certain jobs stoking witch hunts of gays to better their chances for certain promotions, etc.
Don’t believe these new sexual assault statistics. I think it might be revenge from those who lost their blackmail/intimidation industry when DADT was repealed. The lone regret I have in this life is that I never got to wear the uniform of a United States Marine…and the one thing that kept me from enlisting was that I knew I was gay and couldn’t lie in uniform. I’m too old now at 36 to even be considered for the Marines, or I’d join up in a heartbeat…and I will regret for the rest of my life that I never got to be part of the awesomeness that is the Marines.
I am, however, pleased that young gay guys who are in their teens and twenties don’t have to miss their chance of being part of awesomeness…and the Marines will get fine, creative, and dedicated young men who would have been excluded from the ranks in the past. I like to think I would have made a good Marine and would have given as much as I’d have benefitted from the uniform…and I like knowing that other guys like me in high school and in college now won’t have to miss their chances just because they’ve never had any interest in girls.
QUESTION FOR COMMENTS: What other questions do you have about either the gay community or the institutional Left’s use of gays in strategic terms?
What else is on your minds today, June 11th 2013?
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Today in History: Monday June 10th, 2013 Open Thread
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Continuing our month-long look at “the dark side of the rainbow” and the bad things about the gay community that the media refuses to talk about, here are some more answers to questions submitted by readers via email or thread-comments in recent days:
1. QUESTION: You’ve accused Democrats of purposefully trying to start a new outbreak of AIDS amongst gays. That’s a pretty serious charge. Do you really believe that?
ANSWER: Oh, Hell to the YES…because that’s exactly what they are doing…but the media will never report on this. I believe this to be an orchestrated effort by the institutional Left to increase the number of gay men infected with HIV/AIDS so that these guys end up dependent on the state for medicine…and thus Democrats exploit that dependence and keep these guys perpetual Democrat voters (in much the same way that Democrats endeavor to keep blacks poor and uneducated…and the way they insist on keeping Hispanics from learning English so they too remain poor and uneducated…and the way Democrats attempt to reduce women to just their genitals so that they can be best controlled by the Left as well).
For the last several years, the Gaystapo leadership of the “gay community” has been promoting a thing called “Poz Pride”…which is supposedly meant to show that people with HIV can be active and involved in the “community” alongside HIV-negative people. But, the Left’s marketing and branding machine have been turned up so high on this that it appears there’s a bigger strategy behind all of this. Really, the effort is meant to make young gay guys believe that HIV is nothing to be afraid of anymore and that they no longer need to use condoms…because catching HIV is not so bad…since they can then have “Poz Pride”.
Here in Chicago, Sidetrack the Video Bar hosts “Poz Pride” events where local HIV-positive drag queens and other performers take the stage and claim they are “ending the stigma” attached to having HIV. I can see the reasoning behind having an event to “end the stigma” of having red-hair or being left-handed, but having HIV should be always seen as undesirable. We should be compassionate towards those who have HIV/AIDS…but we should not “end the stigma” so that catching HIV is seen as nothing worse than catching a cold.
This is what the institutional Left is up to right now, though…and it’s both sick and dangerous. A great website for the scoop on gay life in LA is WeHoConfidential…which recently did a story on the young gay guys there not using condoms and engaging in unprotected sex like it was 1979. Be warned: the site is pretty graphic and frank in its discussions of gay sex and they don’t mince words ever. 75% of young gay guys polled say they don’t use condoms when having sex…with 61% of them saying “it’s their personal choice” to not use condoms and that “they love it!”.
This is a direct result of the “Poz Pride” propaganda that’s blanketed the gay community in recent years…because young guys are no longer being told that condoms and avoiding risky sex are the only ways to stay healthy. Now, guys are being told that they have a choice on whether or not to use condoms…and that, basically, if they do catch HIV it’s not the end of the world.
In any gay magazine you pick up you will see ads for HIV medications that show guys climbing mountains, running through the surf, and doing all sorts of high-adventure things outdoors…with tag lines like “HIV no longer holds you back!’. The message is that this is not a big deal anymore and that guys in their 20s and early 30s shouldn’t care about HIV the way Generations X & Y were scared to death of the disease.
Here in Chicago, one study a few years ago showed that 3 out of 5 black gay men were HIV-positive; many of these guys have beards (women they are married to or who serve as their “girlfriends”) and live “on the down low”. Some of these are “men who have sex with men” but who don’t gay-identify…and when they have unprotected sex with other men they then bring whatever they catch back to the black community and spread it to women…who also, it seems, spread it to other men. It’s a truly vicious cycle…and it’s all being encouraged by the propaganda that HIV/AIDS is not something to be concerned about any longer.
Democrats benefit from all of this because people who are sick and who depend on expensive medications to survive look to the government to provide that for them…and Democrats openly promote themselves as the party that believes the government exists to take care of people. Black people are taught by Democrats that the government will give them food and housing and monthly stipends, so that they do not have to work. Women are taught they must vote Democrat because one day they might want to murder a baby growing inside them and only Democrats will celebrate that event. Democrats push for everything to be written in Spanish so that Hispanics never learn English and, thus, remain easy for Democrats to control. Meanwhile, Democrats actively promote risky sexual behavior amongst gays while simultaneously teaching young gay guys that HIV is nothing to be afraid of; the end result is that more gay men get infected with HIV/AIDS and then become dependent on the government…so they get locked in forever as Democrat voters.
It’s hard for a lot of people to understand just how evil the institutional Left truly is…but this is truly happening in big cities like Chicago right now. You can see it too, even if you aren’t part of the gay community, by just picking up any issue of The Advocate, Genre, or OUT magazines and looking through the paid advertisements that pepper the glossy pages. It’s as if HIV/AIDS is a minor inconvenience here in 2013…and one, of course, that Democrats can resolve if gays just stay on the plantation and always vote for the Left.
2. QUESTION: What’s the absolute worst thing you ever saw the “gay community” do to anyone?
ANSWER: I think it’s sick that gay guys really enjoy mocking people who are handicapped or disabled…and in particular, it’s horrible that they still — to this day — make fun of little Trig Palin (Governor Sarah Palin’s youngest child, who has Down Syndrome). Gay comedians in Chicago regularly mocked little Trig. Once again, Sidetrack the Video Bar took the lead in this and aired “comedy sketches” where Trig was mocked for having Down Syndrome. This was about more than just gays wanting to take a stab at Governor Palin by way of her child…and really tapped into a mean streak that runs through a lot of gay guys. They just really and truly do enjoy mercilessly picking on someone as defenseless and innocent as a baby with Down Syndrome.
I don’t know where that comes from, but it might be rooted in the misogyny that’s rampant in the gay community and the fact that a lot of gays refer to straight people as “breeders”. Women’s anatomy is another subject that gays mock and malign in “comedy sketches”…and abortion jokes are always popular in gay comedy venues. It’s actually something gays toss around very casually; you see this on Facebook a lot, where one gay guy will say he is going to be busy all day and another will ask what he’s doing…and the first guy will say, “Oh, just getting an abortion and then heading out for a tan”. Other Facebook friends will write “LOL!” or “Me too!” under that. Not a single one of them will state how sick any of this is…because if someone did, that person would be “defended” and then ostracized.
Gay guys, when in a group of “Mean Girls” like this, often come off as bitter and malicious goblins…who hate women, babies, and traditional families. There’s a true sense of bitterness and resentment in them when they do this. A lot of times, they seem like monsters in a fairytale who would be living under a bridge…but here in 2013 they’re camped out on Facebook spreading hatred towards pregnant women and little babies. It’s sick.
I think this is also part of a deliberate push by the institutional Left to use gays to destroy the classic American nuclear family. The Left really wants all children to be raised by single mothers…and for all families to be on some sort of welfare. The Left would like all men to either be gay or to be absent from a household, so that little boys will grow up being indoctrinated solely by their teachers in public schools…who, of course, teach little boys that they are bad because they have penises and that they should never exhibit any masculine traits or characteristics (since those are bad too). The institutional Left is counting on these teachers to produce young men who are wimpy, who never question authority, and who believe the government is the solution for everything.
Gays often serve as the pop culture goon squads that enforce a lot of this thinking in the entertainment industry…or who remain ever at the ready to be deployed as attackers of traditional families at events in June themed to “Pride”. Just watch: a lot of these parades and festivals will not be focused on how great it is to be gay…but how bad traditional families are and how “disgusting” those “breeders” are that have children and nuclear families.
QUESTION FOR COMMENTS: What other things have you wondered about the “gay community” or the role it plays for the institutional Left?
What else is on your minds this Monday June 10th, 2013?
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Today in History: Saturday June 8th, 2013 Open Thread
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As we push deeper into June, you’re going to be hearing more screeching and wailing from the “gay community” about all the evil things that Christians and conservatives supposedly do to gays in the year 2013. Almost all of what the media writes in newspapers and magazines or reads off the tee-vee is lies and propaganda…all designed to use gays as a means of attacking conservative Americans, since any criticism of gays is deemed “homophobia” (in much the same way that speaking out about bad things that black people do is called “Ray Ciss” by the Ministry of Truth that is our national media). I’ve been enjoying fielding questions from all of you about things you’ve long-wondered about the “gay community” and hope you continue to submit your queries via email or in these daily threads through the entire “Pride Month” of June. Nothing is off limits and I’ll do my best to get to every question asked.
1. QUESTION: I’m an older person, so I grew up at a time when being gay wasn’t cool and people didn’t come out, sometimes not for their whole life. I have known people who considered themselves “asexual.” I believe they were really gay but couldn’t accept that, and they were never attracted to the opposite sex, so they just opted out. One of them was a man, and when he got to know some gay men in college (and some of them hit on him) he said he hated gays. He also had a lot of women hit on him, or fall in love with him, and he hated that too. I still believe he was really gay, but I don’t know if he ever accepted it. Does that happen now?
ANSWER: I think some people really are “asexual” and don’t have an attraction to either gender. I’ve listed him as an example before and will note him again now…Tim Gunn. He’s the host/mentor of the Project Runway reality show and he talks openly about being asexual. He started off as gay and then had a horrible breakup in the past and decided he didn’t want to put himself through that again. Clearly, he still has some attraction to guys because he flirts with a lot of the male contestants on the show…but I don’t even know if he realizes he’s doing it. He states regularly that he has not had any sort of romantic involvement with a guy in a very, very long time though and is now asexual.
I have met some asexual people who say they never were attracted to either gender. I believe them. There is a lot we don’t know about the human brain. I don’t think that asexual people are destined to be lonely or anything…because the ones I’ve known have a lot of friends and live full lives. I think it’s unfair to look at someone and say that he or she needs to be with someone to be happy or enjoy life.
Truth be told, I loved being single and actually had no intention of ever having a boyfriend again…and then Justin came along. He’s a great guy and I love being with him, but if he’d decide to move back to Arkansas at some point in the future because he prefers living in the country and I am a city boy through and through then I wonder if I’d ever have a live-in boyfriend again. I got so much more work done when I was single and there are a lot of freelancing gigs that I end up not taking because something Justin-related gets in the way. I think there’s going to be a point in life where I’m going to have to choose between career opportunities and being in a relationship…and I don’t know what the choice is going to be.
More people than you would think make that sort of choice all the time…and being single is their preferred vocation. It seems like a lot of people who have been married for a long time seem to think that being single is bad or lonely, but it’s not. It’s just a different way to live, with its own pros and cons.
2. QUESTION: You mentioned in a previous post about gay men having hot girls to hang out with who consequently attract other gay men into their circle. This must sound silly, but how do gay men know what constitutes a “hot girl”? Must she look like a super model? I work with many straight men from various backgrounds and what one finds hot the other finds unattractive. Would you say there’s more interracial dating among gays than straights? Would you say that the majority of gays on the left who are screaming for gay marriage rights are not in fact that into marriage and fidelity? Seems like you’ve stated or implied that cheating and strip clubs are a big part of the gay lifestyle as many of the gays, at least in Boystown, are overgrown adolescents. Just trying to understand when the gay lifestyle transitioned from flamboyant to two guys driving a sedan transporting kids to soccer practice.
ANSWER: I’m totally gay but I think I can identify a “hot girl” really well…but I think my standards are much, much higher than a straight guy’s. To me, a woman is “hot” when she’s classy, elegant, beautiful, outgoing, witty, and is comfortable in her own skin. She’s the kind of girl who walks into a room and turns heads and never gets lost in a crowd. There’s just a spark to her, and gay guys want to be her friend while straight guys want to get her number. She’s the sort of girl that can be very picky with whom she chooses to go out with…because she certainly doesn’t lack for suiters. There’s no requirement for her to be supermodel thin, though…and she doesn’t have to be a young co-ed either. I have friends who are very hot women and they are all sizes, colors, and ages…but sitting here thinking about your question the one thing that they all share is that sense of self-confidence.
These are women who don’t need anyone to tell them they are beautiful or to buy drinks for them or carry their purse or whatever…and I think what makes them so attractive is that a party or a night at the club really does pick up when they come around. Gay men like and respect women who are confident, never mousy, and who appreciate their own worth.
The other side of this coin is that there remains a type of girl with low-self-esteem and no self-confidence who tends to hang around gay guys or go to gay clubs because she then has an excuse for not meeting any straight guys ever or having a boyfriend…and those are the girls that the media still calls “fag hags” (but I think that’s an ugly and hateful term that you should never use). When I talk about women like this, I call them “Graces” (in reference to the character Grace Adler from the old tee-vee show “Will & Grace”, as played by Debra Messing in the late-90s and early 2000s); I’ve also seen these women called “fruit flies” (also derogatory) or “fairy princesses” (which is nicer-sounding, but still cutesy-tunes). I feel bad for these girls because they end up being dragged around as an audience for gay guys to either make laugh (at the gay guys’ jokes) or make fun of (when the gay guys talk about how “pathetic” she is when she goes to use the bathroom or something). Younger gay guys in their 20s and early 30s enjoy having hangers-on like this and like performing for the audience of “Graces” who get dragged around sidekick-style by these gays.
No self-respecting woman would ever be a “Grace”, let alone a “fag hag” or “fruit fly”. It’s cool to have gay friends…but strive to be the awesome, confident, incredible woman that gay guys want to hang around…and never be the sad, lonely, desperate “Grace” who vicariously lives through gay men’s adventures or who serves as an ever-present audience for their antics.
As for interracial dating, that almost never happens in the “gay community” because black men are treated HORRIBLY by gay guys. Gays are incredibly racist in general and really enjoy “ghetto humor”, where comedians in gay clubs or bars mock black people’s intelligence, their style of speaking, and drug use in the black community. I’ve written about this in recent weeks because of comedian Bradley Thomas Balof (who is also a Chicago public school teacher) and the fact that he mocks his black students for gay audiences (and elicits uproarious laughter from them as a result). This is incredibly common…and truly sad. But gays without any comedic talent know they will have audiences falling off their chairs with laughter if they make fun of black people.
To be fair, in black comedy clubs all around town THOSE comics are making fun of gays and receiving similar uproarious laughter from black people who think making fun of “fags” is funny. This is one of those instances where two factions of the institutional Left’s voting bloc hate, malign, and mock one another all the time…but you probably never hear about that.
There is a segment of gay white men who are REALLY into black guys when it comes to the “leather community”; these are guys that are submissives and enjoy being dominated by black men. There’s a whole “white slave/black master” sub-genre of the gay fetish community where white gay men enjoy having black men urinate on them, whip them, or treat them as collared slaves. At the recent International Mr. Leather (IML) festival held in Chicago over Memorial Day Weekend there was even a white slave auction where black “masters” got to bid on and collect white sex slaves for use during the festival. This is a regular thing…and a typical part of BDSM activities.
It’s rare, though, to find gay guys who aren’t into leather or fetish who date black men. At bars, black guys are usually excluded and ignored. This is really tragic because these same black guys are alienated from the black community, since blacks direct a lot of hatred towards gays. That’s why there’s so much pressure for these guys to keep quiet about being gay and live “on the down low”, the way Barack Obama and other high-profile gay black men do. Life is so much easier for them if they just screw around with guys in private and maintain public beards so they don’t become the butts of jokes for those black comedians.
As far as “gay marriage” goes…I can tell you that many of the gays I see in Chicago screaming for “marriage equality” are all in open relationships or cheat on their boyfriends all the time. So, they really don’t want “marriage equality” so much as they want to “win” and “defeat” conservatives and Christians. Does that make sense? It’s like small children wanting and wanting and wanting something for Christmas…but if you’d buy them that, they’d not even play with it and be onto wanting something else. Or, more apt, they just want the thing because then someone else can’t have it…and then once they’d get it they’d lose interest in it entirely. I think “gay marriage” is just something for a lot of these guys to screech about because they want the attention of screaming and yelling and they also enjoy feeling like they are “activists” because they are demanding this. But, they really don’t want to be in committed relationships because that would mean they’d have to stop going to Steamworks and having anonymous sex with strangers every weekend.
I don’t really think 90% of these people want to drive a sedan and go to soccer practice. Most of them want to keep living above the bars in Boystown, picking up different boys every night for sex, and spending all their paychecks every two weeks on designer clothes, booze, and frequent trips to places even more fabulous than Chicago. Lesbians may want to settle down and drive sedans…but gay guys are lost boys who just want to keep partying.
3. QUESTION: Kevin, how do you feel about gay or lesbian couples adopting kids?
ANSWER: I think it’s sad that the media doesn’t focus on what is actually best for the kids in these hypothetical adoptions. As in, the emphasis is put on whether gays should be allowed to adopt or not…as if we’re talking about gays being allowed to buy movie tickets or gays being allowed to sit in the window booths at a restaurant. This should not be about what gay people want to do or like to do…but should be about whether kids would thrive and have great lives with a gay couple.
I actually think lesbians would probably make great parents as a rule but that gay guys really aren’t mature or responsible enough to be adoptive parents. There are exceptions to this, of course, but I think stereotypes exist for a reason and that is because they are rooted in some truth. I do think that if gays adopt that they should only adopt opposite-sex children. So, lesbians can raise little boys and gay guys should raise little girls…but that they should not be awarded same-sex children ever. That’s airing things on the side of extreme caution…which is what should happen when adoption is being talked about.
I don’t think enough attention is put on WHY gay “activists” screech about wanting to adopt kids. Is this something they truly want to do altruistically to help needy children…or is this yet again about gay people wanting attention and demanding things, just because like spoiled children they have a need to be in the news wailing about SOMETHING. That now-defunct tee-vee show “The New Normal” that aired on NBC last season featured a very spoiled and self-centered gay couple that wanted to adopt a child because the more flamboyant of the two guys wanted to buy baby clothes and he felt that Angelina Jolie, Madonna, and Sandra Bullock were outpacing him in life because they were able to adopt. When the adoption agency turned these guys down, they just decided to have a surrogate carry a baby for them instead; they had more money than they knew what to do with and this baby was essentially just another expensive thing they were buying for themselves. Twenty years ago, they would have been purchasing a white tiger or albino lion cub…but in 2013 they want a baby as an exotic status symbol.
Now, one of my exes actually adopted a troubled teen with his partner…and they created a great little family. The teen they adopted was bounced around foster homes for years and was one of the kids that would have aged-out of the system into a pretty crummy life at some point. But, my ex and his partner gave this kid a nice, safe home and helped get him back on track in life. I think they plan on doing this for another troubled teen after this current one goes on to college. My ex was adopted himself in a similar situation when he was younger and he’s “paying forward” the kindness of his adoptive parents.
So, his intentions were altruistic and solid…and not seeking attention or status.
I think that adoption agencies should be draconian strict when it comes to the best interests of the child…and that no one should feel politically-correct pressure to hand a kid off to a gay couple just because it’s hip and cool to do so…or because the agency is terrified of the Gaystapo picketing or screeching for this to happen. If there is any indication that a gay couple is seeking to adopt just because they want a living doll to play with or because they think this will give him a great status symbol they coveted, then the adoption should be denied.
I do think it’s ideal for a child to have a mother and a father in a stable household…and that the institutional Left has been undermining this for so many decades that people seem afraid to state the truth. But, a mother and a father give a child the best chance of succeeding in life…and I don’t think that two mothers or two fathers has that same stable environment. I think the goal of an adoption should be to give a child the very best situation possible…and if there are straight couples who are able to care for children I do believe they should be given preference.
It might sound politically-incorrect, but the only children I think should ever be even considered for adoption by gays are the kids that can’t be placed with any straight couple…like that troubled teen that no one else wanted that my ex and his partner adopted. If gays REALLY want to adopt and really are doing it because they want to help, then let them take on the troubled teens who need good homes. But, leave the adorable little babies that spoiled gay couples seem to covet as living dolls to straight families who can better care for these children.
I just know I’m going to get hatemail on this one, but it’s about damn time someone said this. Because it’s true!
4. QUESTION: My questions- What is your opinion on the recent Boy Scouts of America decision to allow openly gay youths to participate in its activities? What is “openly gay” anyway?
ANSWER: I think that gay boys under 18 should be allowed to participate in Boy Scouts…but should be kicked out and prosecuted under applicable laws if they do anything sexual to other boys while in scouting (just as ANYONE should be handled if they do anything like that, whatever their gender or preference). So, just strictly enforce the rules of conduct in scouting for everyone and things will be fine.
It’s a new phenomenon, this coming out as a grade-schooler or teenager. Nothing like that was possible when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s. We should also be very clear that we are talking about VERY RARE circumstances where a boy would be gay, know he is gay, be openly gay, and also want to be in boy scouts. I didn’t realize I was gay until I was 18…so I would not have been one of the people involved in this situation back in the 80s and 90s.
I think this is going to be a non-issue just because of the very small number of boys that would be involved in the matter. And I bet if those boys are indeed openly gay that it would be pretty obvious to anyone who is not deaf and blind that the kids are gay…as the ones who tend to come out really early are the kinds of boys who are pretty flamboyant and flaming. I’m sure I’ll get hatemail for saying that, but it’s true. The more flaming you are, the earlier you come out…like that character Kurt on the tee-vee show “Glee”. He was just so gay that he would have exploded in a swirl of rainbows and confetti if he hadn’t come out in high school.
“Openly gay” refers to admitted you are gay to yourself and others. Here’s how this would play out:
Some idiot asks a clearly gay little boy “Do you have a girlfriend yet?”. I don’t know if people are this stupid in 2013, but when I was a kid I would get asked this by idiots in Cleveland and it would make me very uncomfortable. I didn’t figure out that I liked boys, yet, but I knew I didn’t want a girlfriend and all sorts of well-intentioned fools would push this issue with me…asking me if I had a girlfriend in a tone of voice that made it clear the answer I should give was “YES” and that any other answer was wrong.
An “openly gay” boy would answer: “No, I don’t have a girlfriend. I like boys. I have a crush on your son, Jimmy, in fact”. Maybe he would not be that forward…and maybe he’d just say, “No, I’m gay” and leave it at that. But an openly gay kid would not humor the idiot or be embarrassed about stating without question that NO he was not interested in girls.
I think it’s great that someone is that self-aware as a kid to know he is gay while in grade school or high school…if he really came up with that notion on his own and this was not forced on him by parents who think it’s cool to have a gay kid. I bet it’s really rare for a young kid to be openly gay…but I think that tee-vee shows like “Glee” are making it much easier to come out earlier, since they are presenting being gay as an option that was definitely not presented when I was grade school or high school age.
QUESTION FOR COMMENTS: What other questions do you have about what goes on in the gay community?
What else is on your mind this Saturday June 8th, 2013?
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Today in History: Friday June 7th, 2013 Open Thread
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Continuing our look at “the dark side of the rainbow” in terms of the “gay community’s” bad behavior all during “pride month” of June (that’s sure a lot of “quotation marks”!), here are some more questions people have submitted about things gay people do (with my answers that seem to be upsetting a lot of Gaystapo members):
1. Question: Why do some gay guys grow up, but so many don’t, as you have said?
ANSWER: I think some of this has to do with the sort of jobs they might have. I know one guy who was very immature and I thought he would never change…but he ended up getting a job with one of the money-managing firms downtown and he’s slowly had to dial everything back as a result. Three years ago, he’d be posting all sorts of crazy stuff on Facebook but I think the company he works for makes him stop doing that…and in fact he deleted his old Facebook account and now uses a different one.
If a guy works in a gay bar, a restaurant, or for any gay-focused company he never has to grow up, though. I think this also applies to working for either the City or any nonprofit organization too. But if a guy’s working any job where a video of him being posted to YouTube of him being drunk of out his mind or dancing in his underwear at some gay event would upset his employers then I think the guy grows up and leaves the Boystown antics behind.
In a lot of ways, gay guys do act like frat boys…and you all know that frat boys usually graduate from college and move into careers. In Boystown, though, someone can be in his 50s and still be acting like an immature frat boy…as long as he has the looks and body to pull it off.
At some point, though, everyone ages out of these antics…and if you are still a barfly in your late-50s and 60s and beyond you end up becoming one of the sad trolls in the corner, watching the younger guys up on the stage in their underpants and wishing you were young enough to do that too. These older guys typically shell out a lot of money for attention and make “friends” with the strippers and go-go boys around town…and those guys are glad to be “friends” as long as the older guys keep stuffing fives and twenties into their jockstraps.
I think the nightlife scene is fun…and Hera knows it’s an excellent source of gossip and information…but if you are someone who is going out drinking every night after you’ve turned 30 (35 tops) then I think you need to start planning your evolution into a more mature person. There’s more things in life worth experiencing than bars night after night. At some point, you’ve seen enough strippers, watched enough dance videos, have either picked up enough guys or been picked up enough to last a lifetime…and you just need to see what else is out there that might interest you. Like, maybe reading books or something. Imagine that.
2. Question: Kevin, Regarding the B in the LGBTetc acronym. Why include Bs at all? What could they possibly be griping about?
ANSWER: This is referring to the acronym “LGBTQAI” that you will see a lot of all June, during “pride month”, because it is the title that the “gay community” officially uses. Back when I was a freshman in college in the mid-90s the gay groups on campus were called GBLT or GLBT…but the names were changed to “LGBT” around 2000 or so because gay groups were getting made fun of as “BLT” sandwich clubs (no joke); also, some very militant and nasty lesbians made a big stink about gay guys always being the face of the “gay community” and that lesbians should be listed first in any acronym. This is just so funny, because it reminds me of old-timey days where men would let women walk through a door first…but, lesbians are supposed to be against chivalrous things like that…while simultaneously demanding to be listed first in an acronym for the “gay community”. If you watch gay people long enough you’ll see all sorts of glaring inconsistencies with their logic such as this. It’s kind of hilarious, actually.
The “B” in “LGBT” has always stood for “bisexuals”…and for the longest time I thought that was just a big joke because I really didn’t believe that people could be “bi”…and that “bi” was just a stepping stone to being gay. From age 18 until maybe 30 I really thought that people who said they were “bi” were just either doing it for attention or were trying to straddle two worlds (with maybe a safety net to return to being straight). But, I have come to know a lot of people who legitimately are “bi”…or are actually a thing called “pansexual” and have a fluid sexuality. That starts getting into very philosophical topics, but it basically is like the character Orlando from literature…and at one point in life being straight, then being gay, then being straight again, or even identifying with different genders at different times of existence. There really are people like this…and, of course, they are bullied and maligned by The Tolerant Left and the “gay community” at large.
Bisexuals are scoffed at and told to just pick a side already…but they are not disrespected as much as transgendered people (who really are treated like The Untouchables of Hindu society). You would be SHOCKED how many married “straight” men are actually bisexual. In Chicago, the nicer gyms like FFC and Equinox all have steam rooms and saunas and married men of all ages enjoy hanging out in there comparing their penises and performing sexual acts on one another. If you go on Craigslist and look up your city, you will find the PERSONALS section; look under “men seeking men” and type “married” in the search box. Today for Chicago’s Craigslist there are 658 ads up for married guys wanting to do things with other married guys while their wives are at their mothers’ houses or are out shopping or whatever. This is stunningly common.
I think that a lot of these married guys don’t want to be gay and have a boyfriend and live in the gay scene…but they think it’s exciting to be with other men sexually. So, these guys are emotionally straight and they enjoy sex with a woman…but they also like doing things with another man’s body too. Straight guys are a lot more complicated than people give them credit for being. I actually think a lot of the reason that some straight guys love watching football or baseball so much is because they enjoy watching other men with great bodies running around chasing things. They won’t admit it, but there’s no way that ESPN’s ratings are so high just because the color commentary provided during games is so compelling.
The rest of the “LGBTQAI” acronym always confuses people so I might as well spell out what’s left: the “Q” stands for “gender queer” and the “AI” is for robots. I kid. The “A” is for “asexuals” and the “I” is for “intersex”. ”Gender queer” is really hard to explain, but these people are basically anarchists; their primary interest is to “queer” society in general…and destroy anything that is traditional or the way people have always thought or done something. i find a lot of these people very obnoxious and in the last decade the most militant and Leftist of gay activists have started to operate under the “gender queer” label and become more vocal. I kind of see this in the way that Islamists put up a front-organization like CAIR and pretend they are not doing anything bad, but they really are radicals who want to bring down the system. Whenever you see anything talking about “gender queer” you should know that “queering” society is a political and cultural aim of the Left…and it’s just about dissolving the foundations of American society and culture. I have never understood the end game of these people or what they want to replace America with…but they really are just more useful idiots that the Left sends out just to create chaos in their own ways. ”Queering” marriage is a big thing for them…because if they destroy marriage as something special and sacred then they will destroy the desire to have traditional families…and it helps lead the Left to a place where children are not really raised by parents but are in the control of the state and the Leftist public school teachers will have more power to indoctrinate the next generation into the cult of Leftism.
Any idiots out there who still call these people “liberals” can feel free to slap yourselves in the face right now. Same goes for any morons who call them “progressives” too. And I don’t care if Ann Coulter uses those terms…because she’s a fool too whenever she refers to these Leftists by any of the terms they enjoy using for themselves. Dummies.
I believe that “asexuals” are real but you’ll be hard-pressed to meet very many who self-identity like this. A lot of people in the “gay community” do get burned out at some point and don’t want to be in any more relationships. This happens to guys a lot, because the gay community promotes promiscuity and open relationships…and if you are someone who happens to like other guys but hate being cheated on there could be a time when you just decide you don’t want to have your heart broken again. A very famous “asexual” person is Tim Gunn from Project Runway, who has talked openly about being asexual and celibate. I believe what happened to him is that he was in a relationship with someone he loved and the guy cheated on him…and he decided to never let that happen again. It’s really devastating and cruel if you are someone who would never cheat but you’re with someone who betrays you…and what makes it even worse is the fact that the “gay community” will usually side with the cheater and tell YOU to get over it “go cheat on him right back and even the score!”. Sometimes, gay people are real jackasses because they truly think like this. It’s incredibly immature and reminds me of behavior that would be happening on Pleasure Island with all the donkey-boys running around stuffing their faces with goodies and acting like animals…because rules of decent behavior don’t apply on Pleasure Island…and they don’t often apply in Boystown either.
“Intersex” people are what used to be called “hermaphrodites”; these are people who were born with either both sets of genitals or had genitals that aren’t distinctly male or female. This is incredibly rare, and it’s not like transgendered people transitioning from one gender to another. ”Intersex” people often feel like they are not part of either world and might switch back and forth between male or female personas while trying to find themselves. I don’t think Saturday Night Live meant to portray someone “intesex” with the character “Pat” (portrayed by Julia Sweeney)…but that character is the only “intersex” person that most people can ever think of, since “Pat” appeared to be someone who was neither male nor female and was “just Pat”.
3. Question: Having many Catholic friends myself and with me being Greek Orthodox I’m well aware of the Church’s teachings on bedroom behavior, particularly the instructions that those who partake of the Eucharist are not to use their mouths for other parts of the body and that some parts of the body are exit-only. How do you as a gay man, Catholic or former Catholic, reconcile this? Forgive me if these questions are too direct for I do not know how else to ask them. I presume their must be many opinions on this in the gay community but given the MSM’s control I’d never know what they are.
ANSWER: I don’t remember ever hearing anything about being gay the whole time I was in Catholic School, aside from maybe one lesson during sex education class when I was a junior in high school. Gays were never a topic of discussion at mass during the priest’s homilies either. My boyfriend Justin is some kind of Protestant and I know his family used to read the Bible and quote scripture at each other about different things, like those were magic spells to zap one another, but Catholics don’t do that (at least not how I was raised in Ohio). They sure didn’t encourage people to be gay…but it would kind of be a thing that people knew about and then endeavored to ignore about someone. I don’t know how they do things back in Ohio now, but that’s how it was in the 80s and 90s and before I left in the mid-2000s.
I do remember in religion class in high school that the teacher would talk about marriage and would promote that as the ideal…that boys were supposed to want to find a wife and have children and that girls were supposed to want to find a man and get married and become moms. And so after a very brief (as in, one lesson or two at most) look at the biology of sex I remember the majority of “sex education” class being about what it mean to be a good parent and how to run a household and provide for a family. My friends who went to public school say they never had ANYTHING like this…which might be part of the problem with the public education system. Where public school spend so much time promoting sex amongst teens and going into graphic detail about how to do it, in Catholic school the physical act of sex was downplayed and more attention was placed on the consequences of it.
Thinking back, I remember my religion teacher putting up a slide that showed the different kinds of “love”…and they were all Latin words like agape, philia, eros, storage, etc. And I remember the emphasis being that at different points in your life you feel these different kinds of love for different people, but that the eros love should be reserved between a man and a woman…and then the Holy Spirit would see to it that possibly children were born of that when a couple was stable and ready.
I remember it was a HUGE shock when this one girl named Autumn Thornton got pregnant my junior year, I think…and a boy named Jeff Hobart impregnated a girl from son other school and had a son before we’d graduated. This was a HUGE SCANDAL and I remember these two classmates being shunned pretty strongly, especially Autumn. It is beyond surreal for me to realize that those babies these two had (with different people) ARE NOW IN COLLEGE. Great Merciful Zeus, the time has flown.
I am scanning through my memory palace for any relics of those religion classes to see if being gay was ever mentioned at all…and I think they may have told us that some people might be tempted to become homosexual but that they should resist that and be celibate instead. The ideal promoted was to be married but there was also the notion that some people should respond to a single vocation or to become members of a religious order. When I was in high school, I do remember a few clearly gay guys being pushed towards becoming priests…because I think that in the 90s they were still trying to do things like that, if a guy was recognized as being potentially gay and a community wanted to give him a purpose (or a cover for never having a girlfriend or wife). This was certainly a misguided thing to do that seems foolish now…but I bet that happened more times than we know.
I was never pushed towards anything like this and no one from Catholic School ever had any conversation with me about being gay. I do think it’s FASCINATING to take a look back at not only my own class but the classes above and below mine…because in every year there was actually a guy a lot like me who ended up being gay when he got older. We were all high-achievers, presidents of student groups, good at art or public speaking or creative things, popular and outgoing, nice-looking, and we all had lots of very pretty girls as friends but weren’t really close friends with too many other guys. I think it must be remarkable to be a high school teacher and to be able to look through the years and probably be able to spot which guys would end up gay…even in a Catholic School where subtle things were trying to steer potentially gay guys towards other vocations.
Justin had a totally different experience growing up because his parents would zap him with those Bible quotes and condemnations..and the preachers at his congregations would yell at him or otherwise “counsel” him to become straight. They even shipped him off to those treatment camps to try to turn him straight, where all the “therapists” were supposedly ex-gay but were more flamboyant than the entertainment on cruise ships. Justin’s funny because he is often this meek little guy who is so scared of the world around him…but the whole time that his parents or his congregation were doing things like this and trying to “cure” him he’d just laugh at them and tell them they were wasting their time. Justin’s very respectful of his parents, even when they are doing crazy things, but he does say they are fools in thinking they can ever have him “fixed”. They keep trying, though, and still in fact try setting him up with girls when he’s back in Arkansas for visits.
What’s funniest about all of this is that Justin’s mother CarolAnne can be quite nasty to me at times on the phone because she hates Catholics and enjoys taking little verbal stabs at me. She reminds me A LOT of the character Maxine Fortenberry on “True Blood”, as portrayed on that show by the actress Dale Raoul. She loves saying that Catholics are into “mumbo jumbo” and whatever…but yet she’s the one that thinks Bible quotes are magic spells that can zap Justin straight if she says them enough. So, the same woman who mocks communion and Holy Water and the reverence for Mary believes in “magic” when it comes to turning her son straight. Every time she’s being nasty to me, I just remember this and say over and over in my head “she knows not what she does” while I summon an immense reservoir of patience. I will never, ever be unkind to CarolAnne no matter what bizarre or biting things she says to me; I actually think she keeps trying to provoke fights between us on things like this just for something to do.
Another thing worth mentioning here is actually thanks to Glenn Beck, and I will be grateful for this the rest of my life. It’s something that happened to me at the Glenn Beck Restoring America rally in Washington DC three years ago…where the crowd was hot and uncomfortable in the sun and nerves started to get frayed. People would try to move through the crowd to get to one point or another and it got irritating for some, since once they’d just moved to let a group through another would want to come through. A woman near me in the crowd just had enough at one point and got snappy with this very elegant lady from the South, who had such grace and poise…she really could have been an angel undercover. When the woman snapped at her, the Elegant Lady just said, “Oh, my. I pray for your patience” and then just smiled with a warmth like the sun. The irritated woman was instantly calmed and moved out of the Elegant Lady’s way without fuss…and then was calm for the rest of the rally.
I’m still in awe by that, and by how effortlessly that Elegant Woman kept her cool and calm and her positive and relaxed energy was just so contagious. She really rose to the challenge that day and answered nastiness and negativity with patience and prayer in an honest way of her own choosing. And it totally disarmed the situation…without her backing down and going some other way just because the irritated woman was trying to block her path. I endeavor to be exactly this way with Justin’s mother when she starts up nastiness towards me…and every day is a challenge to be as good at this as that Elegant Lady I encountered in Washington three summers ago.
4. Question: Did you know pedophiles are now seeking inclusion in LGBT, claiming discrimination for sexual orientation?
ANSWER: I saw that…but there’s more to it than this. These are really “gender queer” people doing this, because it’s part of “queering” our society. The institutional Left is pushing this in much the same way that Leftists promote Islam in America…because these things are against the traditional American experience. This is part of “the enemy of my enemy is my ally at the moment” type thinking on the Left’s part. Pushing pedophilia and Islam on Americans is a way of rattling people, making them upset, scaring them, and even distracting them so that the Left can accomplish other things in broad daylight.
I think the Left counts on people being too afraid of being called bigots or homophobes to do anything about the promotion of pedophilia…which, you need to always remember, is a main tenet of Islam (in that Muslim men consider young boys to be sexual play things until these men are married and then are expected to have children…but the young male playthings never really seem to go away). As long as a Muslim male has a wife and is not living with an adult male, then pedophilia is quite common and accepted in Islam. The people who are beheaded are the Muslims who won’t take a wife and only want to be with other males of consenting age.
The institutional Left is truly evil. At 36, I see that clearly. Evil is real and it votes Democrat. I don’t care if a duck or a sock puppet is on the ballot challenging a Democrat…because I would vote for my personal nemesis if it meant casting a vote against a Democrat. The Democrat Party since 2008 has really openly become about destroying everything traditional in this country and replacing it with the polar opposite…and it’s just to create enough chaos for the Left to completely seize power and “transform” America the way Barack Obama has repeatedly promised.
5. Question: Do you think the effeminate sing-songy voices associated with gay men is learned or does the factors that naturally cause gayness affect the vocal chords?
ANSWER: Have you ever heard Madonna or Gwenyth Paltrow speak, now that they both live in England for most of the year? They have these weird, fake, cloying “British” accents now when they give interviews. Why is that?
I think that gay guys who are in the “gay scene” tend to end up picking up turns of phrase or speech patterns from older gays who were in the scene before them. This is similar to black people talking in stereotypical “ghetto” ways that get lampooned on tee-vee. I think it’s just something that even the most educated and well-meaning people just do for some reason…because I think talking in that stereotypical way is the easiest way to get attention in the community and show some “flavor”. The media encourages Hispanics to do this as well, and to speak broken English even if they’ve been in this country for 20 years…because that heavy accent and garbled speech is considered “spicy” or “flavorful”.
At their hearts, most people want attention and have a desire to be listened to. In communities of very loud and outspoken people I think a way to quickly gain acceptance and be heard by other community members is to fall in line with the way that other people who are “heard” in the community speak. For gays, that means being queeny and flamboyant when talking…with lots of emotion and gesticulations. For blacks, it means talking “ghetto” and being loud and thuggish…which the media sure promotes on the tee-vee. For Hispanics, it means doing the Ricky Ricardo impression and being loud and “spicy”.
Do you see a pattern here?
All the demographic subgroups of the Left are encouraged to be loud, ridiculous, and to speak in stereotypical ways that differentiate them from the rest of Americans. That can’t be an accident…and neither is it accidental that the media constantly pushes these stereotypes and encourages young member of these niche groups to keep speaking and acting in certain ways, to be “cool” like those that have come before them or to be “flavorful”. They also encourage these people to never speak properly or act like rational people on tee-vee, because that would be “acting white”…which even gay people won’t do, because they want to be seen as being “proud” to be gay and not trying to pass as straight or be “boring”.
QUESTION FOR COMMENTS: Do you have anything you ever wondered about the “gay community” but were always afraid to ask? Now’s your chance to ask a gay conservative guy anything via email or in comments on this thread.
What else is on your minds today June 7th, 2013?
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