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Category Archives: Homosexuality
Decoding Hollywood’s Gay Alliances
Gemini says: In Hollywood, the gay alliance operates through a rigid hierarchy where a few central nodes, such as Ryan Murphy or Bryan Lourd, act as the primary market makers. David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory posits that for a coordination game … Continue reading
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When Did The Super Bowl Become So Gay?
The transformation of the Super Bowl from a profane celebration of traditional masculinity into a sacred platform for “inclusive” health narratives and LGBTQ+ visibility reflects the shifting coordination strategies of the American elite alliance. This evolution followed a specific trajectory … Continue reading
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How’s it working out for the elite to call people homophobes if they aren’t thrilled with gay marriage, same-sex kissing in public, and PREP/HIV ads all across TV?
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory says this strategy is also failing, for the same structural reasons as the “fascist,” “mad,” and “disinformation” labels. Calling people homophobes for not affirming every downstream cultural demand worked only when elite moral authority was broadly … Continue reading
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Decoding The Gay Marriage Debate
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory treats the same-sex marriage debate not primarily as a moral awakening or a triumph of argument, but as a large-scale elite realignment over who gets to define legitimate family life and thus who belongs at the … Continue reading
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Decoding The Status Of Gays In Orthodox Judaism
Gemini says: A second critical issue involves the inclusion of LGBTQ individuals within Orthodox spaces. Historically, the community relied on a policy of silence or exclusion. In the last ten years, a younger generation has pushed for a more empathetic … Continue reading
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NYT: A Relic of Los Angeles’s Anti-L.G.B.T.Q. Past Comes Down – The strange “no U-turn” signs along Griffith Park Boulevard in Silver Lake were erected in the 1990s to ward off gay men.
The New York Times reports: For many Angelenos, the road signs that have been posted in the Silver Lake neighborhood over the last two decades forbidding U-turns from midnight to 6 a.m. were just another example of the city’s seemingly … Continue reading
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‘Mike Benz is a glitch in the matrix of polite society’
Steve Sailer analyzes The New Yorker profile of Oliver Sacks: He was especially invested in two young men on the ward whom he thought he was curing. “The miracle-of-recovery started to occur in and through their relation to me (our … Continue reading
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From Tolerance to Equality: How Elites Brought America to Same-Sex Marriage (6-29-25)
01:00 Book: From Tolerance to Equality: How Elites Brought America to Same-Sex Marriage, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16162504:00 Diversity: A Managerial Ideology, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX6CGuJ2U3g30:00 I try to find empathy for the pain of Iran’s mullahs after they lose their nuclear program to Israeli and American … Continue reading
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From Tolerance to Equality: How Elites Brought America to Same-Sex Marriage
Professor Darel E. Paul wrote in this 2019 book: * In December 1996 a Hawaii state circuit court judge ruled that a strictly opposite-sex definition of marriage was in violation of the state constitution’s commitment to equal protection. Public reaction … Continue reading
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NYT: ‘Companies Pull Back From Pride Events as Trump Targets D.E.I.’
The New York Times reports: Pride organizers say major longtime backers are reducing their support as corporate America retreats from diversity initiatives under President Trump. When it came time to plan San Francisco Pride this year, Suzanne Ford, the organization’s … Continue reading
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