to listen to the St. Matthew Passion without once remembering that Bach was white, the father of twenty children, Germanic and overweight.
However, there is one clear reason that should certainly draw homosexuals together in a strong and determined unity. This is their legal inequality. Here is a Cause and a magnificent one. Yet the homosexual. in his refusal to recognize other homosexuals as human beings, positively refuses to participate organizationally in any such effort, to help finance others in this fight for him or even to discover his own legal rights. He prefers to meander on alone until arrested in a public toilet and then pay extortionate attorney's fees and hush the whole thing up at all costs. Around this time, he subscribes to ONE and begins collecting instances of police corruption for steady recitation.
Then it is obvious that in these past ten years, I have become most suspicious of any who term themselves homosexual without accepting the responsibility of that category. Just as all are heathen who do not live up to the credo of the church they "belong" to, so any homosexual who does not approach his chosen life positively is merely a sex deviate and deserves all he gets in the hands of the law. It is an inescapable fact that we all have dues to pay.
Now and again I am careless enough to allow the question to arise of exactly what I am. Upon demand, my answer is the pallid remark, "I'm a man.” I do not feel that I am homosexual. I don't know what the word means and I don't like what most people think it means. If my answer isn't adequate and they pursue the subject, I either clobber them, make love to them or run like hell.
I find this more rewarding than peroxide and affirmation.
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