A gay Buddhist monk talks about his sexualy and relign.
Contents:
- GERMAN GAY EX-MONK MARRI PARTNER CHURCH
- THE GAY PRECEPT: HOW BUDDHISM VIEWS HOMOSEXUALY
- THE GAY CHURCH
GERMAN GAY EX-MONK MARRI PARTNER CHURCH
* monk homosexuality *
” In this later perd, we see a newfound homophobic ristance to the re that, the reactn’s vrl, speaks to the role this re uld really play for men mtg themselv to each other: The Patriarch’s words acknowledge the realy that no matter s tentn, the re enabled the space for sexual timaci between men. While other religns and cultur teach that homosexualy is sful, Buddhist monk Kodo Nishimura is spreadg the word that Buddhism preach that all people n be liberated equally wh no exceptns. So, Nishimura, 33, who is also a makp artist and an LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and others) person himself, published a book English tled "This Monk Wears Heels: Be Who You Are" Febary.
THE GAY PRECEPT: HOW BUDDHISM VIEWS HOMOSEXUALY
Redisverg Buddhism’s LGBT history of gay monks, homoerotic samurai, and genr-nonnformg practners and gods * monk homosexuality *
Nishimura wr the book that he gaed a strong realizatn that there was nothg wrong wh wearg makp or beg open about beg homosexual after he saw how people were livg their liv while beg te to themselv. The notn that SSB has arisen nvergently so many different leag only mak tuive sense om a heteronormative world view which ‘heterosexual’ behavur is amed as the ‘natural orr’ for sexually reproducg speci, and ‘homosexualy’ is viewed as a recent aberratn whose existence mt be explaed and jtified12. Evolutnary blogists have long sought to unver the adaptive origs of 'homosexual behavur' an attempt to rolve this apparent Darwian paradox: how has SSB repeatedly evolved and persisted spe s prumed fns sts?
”In the time of the Buddha, there were no homosexuals, so our great teacher did not mentn anythg about this; hence is difficult to discs the subject om a Buddhist pot of view. The lecturer then went on to elaborate on Thuriya’s exposn regardg why homosexualy uld be ed by bad karma:”This might sound sexist to you, but Buddhism the hight physil state one n be reborn to is that of a man. Surely there are lots of gay people who live enjoyable liv wh plenty of material posssns, a partner they love, children they re for and the eedom to be who they really are.
If gay people often are faced wh tolerance, if they are kept om achievg certa liberti life and if they stggle wh themselv bee of their preference, uld be nsired they are not at ease and unable to fd peace, ” he explaed.
THE GAY CHURCH
If I, pecially beg a straight man wh Mlim roots, was to publicly announce that homosexualy led to sufferg and was fact ed by sexual misnduct, I would be nsired a ‘gay hater’. ” To expand on the first statement, om s eighteenth-century begngs, works the Gothic mo have often been preoccupied wh perversn and nce; transgrsive or “aberrant” sexualy; genr stabily and permeable inti; and the paranoia, persecutn, and vlence of homosexual panic. The queer, homosocial, and homosexual them turn implite the liv of the three bt-known male thors of the early Gothic—Horace Walpole, William Beckford, and Matthew Gregory Lewis—their works formg a plited rponse to the emergg velopment of homosexual and heterosexual subjectivi as well as the btal, stutnalized homophobia of the late eighteenth century.
Walpole’s antiquarian love of fakery (evinced by his famoly papier-mâché stle, Strawberry Hill), on the one hand, and his probable homosexualy and the homosocial them of his Gothic works, on the other, prent a nearly irristible opportuny to lk the Gothic’s unorigal and queer characteristics through “mp. Signifintly, this is also the perd when English homosexual subcultur were beg visible (if only as objects of attack) (Crompton xiv) and genr difference was begng to be dified (Haggerty, Men Love 172).