The Atlantic ran a long-overdue story about Bryan Singer. In it we see that the situation with the LGBT movement has changed. At last, the purveyors of homosexuality can no longer assume that the press, academia, and their past enablers in the courts and government will continue to protect them. In an age of MeToo, perhaps the gay community had scant cause to believe their own vast networks of abuse would remain undiscovered to the general public, and the perpetrators in their midst unpunished. If the Vatican with all its money and power could not dodge a reckoning, then it should not surprise us that the gay community could not either.
The tide seems to turn now, but we must wait to see if it will turn as fully as it should. As I noted in an earlier post, groups like GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign will likely try to reposition themselves in the avalanche of revelations about to come forward. They may pretend they are shocked or may be shameless enough to present themselves as the solution to gay abuse.
Do not let them get away with anything. Groups like GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, Southern Poverty Law, and Right Wing Watch all applied the "homophobia" or "hate" label to anyone who spoke the truth about gay abuse. They acted as the nerve center of a gigantic web of collusion, protecting gay abusers in exchange for the financial incentives that came with it, and ruthlessly stifling any whistleblowers.
Some folks (including me) spoke truthfully about the core issue that could never be denied. Homosexual activity is physically harmful between men. Nobody can engage in a lifetime of anal sex without harming himself or harming lots of other people. While apologists may mention the rates of heterosexual infection in Africa, in the West, where plentiful health care is available, only homosexuals managed to contract AIDS sexually in large numbers even after decades of generously funded outreach, research, training, and awareness. The anus is not designed to be penetrated. Lifelong habitual anal sex causes an endless series of health problems, of which the worst is AIDS though AIDS is not the only damage. Whether you have 500 sex partners in your erotic career or only one partner with whom you have sex 5,000 times, the fact is that the act of anal sex damages people. Feces spreads sickness and filth. The skin in the anus ruptures easily and results in pain and the dysfunction of the muscles used to defecate. To enjoy this act many people need to use alcohol, amyl nitrates or other drugs; otherwise they must be coaxed or coerced, doing it for pay, using sex as a means to find acceptance, or getting raped.
That is what male homosexuality is. It will never be anything else, no matter how hard we try to use our rhetoric and moral imagination to envision male homosexuality as something more wholesome and dignified.
To get to the point where you view anal sex as normal and commit your identity to it for life, you have to be brainwashed to accept abuse as normal; either you are abused perpetually (bottom), or you abuse and are abused (versatile), or you become a serial abuser (top). Whichever role you play, you are complicit in massive, systematic abuse.
Where underage males are involved or someone fails to honor the need to gain consent from a partner, the abuse is particularly terrible and rises past a legal threshold. But even among consenting adults, homosexuality is harmful. Because it harms people's health to such an extent, the deliberate and organized encouragement and enabling of such harm is abusive. Homosexuality is harmful.
Lesbians do not cause this much physical harm to each other. But they harm each other emotionally. That alone would not be enough to deserve a strong rebuke. But lesbians must accept a public rebuke because they yoked their cause to gay men, who do cause widespread devastation through their sexual practices. In fact, at no time did any lesbian movement assert itself as the leading component of a queer or LGBT movement. Gay men held the most money and power, so they set the course for the activist enterprise. They formed a global community of abuse and tainted any other group that tied itself to gay male activism with complicity in abuse.
The lies about gay normalcy, gay families, "born this way," and "good as you" could not sustain themselves over the long term. Inevitably the cold statistics of harm done by homosexuality would become undeniable even if a gay-friendly society could try to defuse anger over the effect of rampant homosexuality on culture, law, religion, and politics. Too many people got out of homosexuality and turned normal for people to claim that this was an innate "orientation." Too many kids raised by gay parents reached adulthood having seen the twisted workings of gay subcultures. Too many people who jumped into gay identity reached middle age with misery and sickness for people to dismiss the physical harms as the fruit of homophobic imaginations.
The reckoning would come. Perhaps it has come already and the first revelations about gay abuse are only the beginning. I can see the gay activists trying to double down, blaming "stigma" or comparing gay abusers to the abuse by heterosexual predators. But things do not exist in comparison all the time; sometimes we must grapple with what things are, in themselves. The gay community is full of people who engaged in widespread abuse and/or encouraged it to go on, defending those who perpetrated it and crushing those who called it out. I know, I have the scars to prove it. Just google my profiles on GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, and the rest. Go back and see how Claire Potter, the lesbian blogger at Chronicle of Higher Education, classlessly attacked me in the comments at Inside Higher Education to state that my own history of sexual abuse was something I imagined because I was mentally ill and a liar. These people know very well they covered up horrors that the average American could not bear to hear about.
They knew all along what went on. They tried to cover for the gay community's abuse by spreading a false idea that some people were born gay and therefore carried a biological destiny to suffer the harms of anal sex. This paradox, obviously untrue, gave the gay community "gaydar" status because we were told that adult gays could spot younger gays. And then came the "bullying" rhetoric. Kids who got made fun of, who felt rejected, who struggled to find their place, were told over and over again that they must be gay because they were bullied. (As if the bullies knew them better than they knew themselves, and somehow the sympathetic gay adults and the bullies were united in their knowledge that yes, this child must be gay.) Pressured into experimentation just as they were tender, young, and vulnerable, they found themselves unable to go against the assumptions that gayness was something in their destiny, inside them. They surrendered to fashion and allowed the gay community to take them prisoner.
GLAAD and the other gay organizations knew perfectly well that they were minions for rich abusers. They smeared critics, demonized whistleblowers, and propped up false propaganda for decades. Never let them claim they were innocent. As the stories come forward, let them face their own crimes, one by one. And one day, let America restore the reputations of all the maligned people who say in good faith now, "I told you so."
