Comments on: Gays in Iraq are not debating marriage (updated… again)

By: Allen

Allen — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:03:03 +0000

I wonder if the Aids mess is why American gays relegate such horrible stories to the back pages. Maybe they are too similar. Taking action to draw attention to organized gay-hating and murder and “round-ups” might really bring up too many similarities to the situation gays are in here in the US. Aren’t we used to hearing threats that we are going to die if we don’t act right? Aren’t we used to hearing that gays caused aids and that we deserve to die? Aren’t we used to hearing that we should report our lovers if we are diagnosed positive? What is reporting lovers if not turning in other gays and sentencing them to “certain” death?

I agree with Dan that the gay marriage issue, as meritorious as it is, acts a diversion to our real suppression and allows us to overlook gay hatred disguised as concern for our health. But I think that American gays want this distraction. This is not something forced on us, but an issue we choose. If nothing else, it gives us something–other than aids–to talk about. If we were to face the most important challenges facing gays in America: the aids scam; we would realize that we really are not much different from the executed gays on the gallows in Iraq.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:11:43 +0000

Dan,
Thanks for that contribution. One could pretty easily suggest that government sanctioned hanging of homosexuals isn’t all that far off from the current US government strategy of trying to push ARVs down our throats. The big difference is that, so far at least, those of us who choose to can still walk away from that gallow. Oh wait…. gallow, Gallo. Hmmm.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:13:51 +0000

Pontificating for gay marriage rights while relegating these kind of horrors to the back page is the height of arrogance and selfishness on the part of all American gays and lesbians.

Good post about perspective.

I think the gay marriage issue is an incredible luxury considering the perspective you give here. But it isn’t just a luxury, it’s a diversion.

I’ll bring this back to the main topic of your blog. If we (gays) spent as much energy, time and money on questioning the AIDS debacle (rather than just submitting our bodies and minds to the medical establishment)as we do on gay marriage, we could empower ourselves like we’ve never been empowered before.

We could release ourselves from the deep victim-psychology that has been fueling us for decades. We could OWN our sexuality. Currently, we don’t own our sexuality as long as we believe in the AIDS scam.

It’s an upside-down world for gays as we equate being victims with being powerful.

Now, if we were unshackled from the AIDS belief system, thereby being truly empowered, the horrors that are relegated to the back page might get the attention and energy they deserve. But we’re still mucking about in our own collective self-pity and victim mentality.