Contents:
- BUCKLEY AND THE GAYS
- CONSERVATIVE WILLIAM BUCKLEY SAYS TATTOO GAY MEN ON THEIR BUTTOCKS
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
BUCKLEY AND THE GAYS
’s civil tone on matters of homosexualy, pecially as ntrasted wh other nservativ of his era, but laments that “Buckley never challenged what he believed was a necsary moral and social junctn agast gay love, marriage and sex. GayPatrt‘s B. Daniel Blatt is more charable, notg that, “When I was iendly wh Marv Liebman the mid-1990s, he remembered his iend fondly, notg how their iendship did not change when Liebman me out as gay to Buckley.
” But, as Sully observ, “Liebman was ed a brother bat, one of the great gay fo of totalarianism, up there wh Whtaker Chambers and Alan Turg. But he was always remd that his gayns would bar him om full cln as an equal the nservative movement.
CONSERVATIVE WILLIAM BUCKLEY SAYS TATTOO GAY MEN ON THEIR BUTTOCKS
E., homosexualy], and his art the sirabily of , is not to be nfed wh the man who bears his sorrow quietly.
Buckley’s ontologil ethics on the subject of gay issu sometim manifted self rather amg ways. Several of the remembranc I’ve seen sce his passg yterday have mentned his suggtn that, “Everyone tected wh AIDS should be tattooed the upper forearm to prevent mon needle ers, and on the buttocks, to prevent the victimizatn of homosexuals.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
It wasn’t as bad as “faggot, ” but rried a dose of ntempt as strong or stronger than most of the other risive ephets for those whom, back then, only gay people lled gay. The ldly clil term “homosexual, ” which some now fd to be as dub as “Negro, ” was seldom seen as herently rogatory.
“Gay” is too male, “gay and lbian” sufficiently clive, L. )Though Vidal never “intified” as gay—he never “me out”— was hardly a secret that the thor of “The Cy and the Pillar” was, to e his own favored term, a homosexualist. Buckley was a reactnary, arguably a racist, and arguably a homophobe.