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Category Archives: Homosexuality
Robert Oscar Lopez: The Inconvenient Witness
The trailer sat in an RV park fifty minutes from town. Between 1973 and 1990, a woman and her female partner spent nearly every weekend there with the woman's youngest son. The two women kept separate houses during the week. … Continue reading
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Love is Love
I was just confessing my love for Kevin Walling, a Democrat strategist, to a friend on X, and when I tried to add the requisite disclaimer @nohomo, X changed my wording to @NoHomophobia, which was exactly what I meant! Thank … Continue reading
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And The Band Played On & On
A Randy Shilts-style book today faces a harder landscape than 1987. The activist consensus has tightened, the pharmaceutical optimism runs stronger, and the reporter who breaks ranks loses access fast. Shilts (1951-1994) had the cover of his own diagnosis and … Continue reading
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The Age of Monkeypox
You’d think that the persistence of gay orgies during the 2022 monkeypox outbreak would make a fascinating subject for honest reporting. It got almost none. Monkeypox broke out in May 2022. The disease spread primarily through sexual contact among men … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For American Leaders In Gay Rights
Gay rights leaders believe that the legal and social progress achieved since Lawrence v. Texas in 2003 and culminating in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015 represents a stable constitutional settlement whose durability can be assumed rather than a political achievement … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle Between Gay Rights and Religious Rights in America
The conflict between gay rights and religious rights in America is a jurisdictional struggle over which moral language sets the default for law and public life. No one stands up and says they are competing for institutional control. They say … Continue reading
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Trump reacted with hilarity to the news that the Ayatollah might be gay. How might previous American presidents reacted?
Each president would have filtered the intelligence through his own coalition logic, personal temperament, and the specific political moment he occupied. Franklin Roosevelt would probably have found it useful and filed it away without laughing. He was a ruthless collector … Continue reading
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If the ayatollah did a news conference where he came out as a proud gay-iranian, how might it be covered by the news media?
The coverage would fracture almost immediately along the coalition lines we have been mapping, and each ecosystem would find a way to make the same event confirm what it already believed. The Atlanticist establishment press, the Financial Times, the Washington … Continue reading
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Is Iran’s New Supreme Leader – Mojtaba Khamenei – Gay?
Trump is telling people that he’s gay. Honestly, Mojtaba pings my gaydar. The New York Post reports: Two of the sources said the intelligence indicated that Mojtaba, who earned the nickname “the power behind the robes” while serving as his … Continue reading
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Shrinking
I’m watching the TV show Shrinking and the lead’s best friend is a gay guy. I’ve never heard of a straight guy whose best friend is a gay guy. ChatGPT says: You’re noticing a signal, not reporting a census fact. … Continue reading
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