Post 28 Posted Nov. 30, 2024
The first point in understanding homosexuality is to discern the world of difference that exists between being gay and doing gay. One is a matter of the mind and heart; the other is behavior. Someone attracted to the same-sex is often automatically thought of as doing gay, although this may not be true. Historically, in response to DOING gay, males have been rejected and ostracized by some parents and society generally. They’ve been severely penalized through various means and degrees of severity, including lengthy prison terms and execution. Gays have been condemned by clergy and misunderstood, misdirected, mislabeled, and abandoned by psychiatrists. Sadly, ignorance and abuse now exist in parts of the world to the extent that men risk death for BEING gay, for simply acknowledging an erotic attraction to others of their gender. This issue of men needing men has been confused. Posts on this site suggest a new way of understanding the mystery of why men pursue other men erotically. Ideas will be presented that could breach the divide between gays and straights and help gay men enjoy a fuller, richer life. Greater peace and security can be gained if energies can be vested in new ideas related to this age-old concern.
Post 29 – Posted 12/4/24
Same-sex sexuality brings no option for man’s greatest and most sublime creative act, initiation of the near duplication of self through one’s children and, with a partner, building a family and perhaps the foundation of an endless posterity. The single and most salient and enduring focal point of homosexuality concerns fathers and fatherhood, one’s own father, good or bad, present or absent, as well as one’s own potential for being a father.
Each gay man’s unique history possesses core features. The extent of homosexuality’s reach is profound. It encompasses past, present, and future, from which cause and effect are generally discernable. Neither societies nor individuals have welcomed the different behaviors associated with obligatory homosexuality.
In a gay magazine, the Mattachine Review, August 1956, Carl Harding wrote: “Many of us homosexuals regard our inversion as a handicap because it precludes a complete life. And no life is complete emotionally or biologically without the extension of love in the upbringing of children of one's own. And this limitation on our lives imposed upon us in our childhood could have been prevented in most cases. …To boast of being glad for an exclusively homosexual condition is but a defense mechanism.”
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