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BUCKLEY AND THE GAYS
Includg ma characters who are LGBTQ — a Hallmark first — was important to Buckley, whose brother is gay. “And what immediately jumped out to me was, I want my brother to be gay and, here’s the big ia, we’re gog to treat them exactly the same way we treat a straight uple. He published Marv Liebman and David Bdnoy - and his day, Natnal Review was not as uniformly homophobic - or virtually Homore - as now is.
But Buckley never challenged what he believed was a necsary moral and social junctn agast gay love, marriage and sex. ) Gay men were allowed sex, as a functn of a civilized society's benevolence, but only allowed. Homosexual sodomy was always subjected to more scty and disparagement than heterosexual sodomy, even when sodomy beme - as did the 1960s wh the advent of the pill - the overwhelmg sexual practice of the straight.
And so gay sex liv were subject to the kd of thought experiment - tattoog our buttocks the HIV epimic - that simply would never have been applied to heterosexuals.