Dwight ~

You're much too emotional and your persecution complex is beginning to dominate your life. As evidenced from your own rantings and delusions, a specter haunts you and the 'queer' left -- the growing ranks of ordinary homosexuals who don't feel all that radically different from heterosexuals except for the matter of being attracted to the same sex. It appears you are heartbroken that being gay isn't seen as being excitingly alien and subversive any more. How will the queer left go on feeling special and commanding everyone's attention?

The queer left is in denial that homosexuals are increasing ordinary. Instead, the queer left has tried to describe homosexuals as a sub-species of Homo Sapiens, with their own peculiar values and ideas. The queer left bitterly criticises gays who have put their own sense of being alien behind them.

Behind all the talk of the queer left's revolutionary values, the need for a sense of being alien, the supposed subversion of gender roles, lies the fear of being ordinary. It is like the childlike need to have everyone's attention. If it is ordinary to be gay, there's nothing special about you on that account. You have no secret rings or rites, no hidden passages or esoteric language, no distinct set of values, no special insight into human suffering or longing. You're only an individual who must make your own way in the world, unable to depend on the safety of belonging to an elect tribe.

It is mythology and harmful for the queer left to show gays as sexual revolutionaries, with alien natures and values, threatening and iconoclastic, angry, ennobled, and enlightened by our oppression, but just not ordinary in the sense that really matters. But, we are better, and bigger, that that. We needn't fear being ordinary.