I’m Gay. So Why Don’t I Belong to ‘Gay Culture?’

Contents:

• WHY DO STRAIGHTS HATE GAYS?
• I THK GAYS ARE DISGTG, BUT STILL TREAT THEM AS NORMAL PEOPLE. AM I A BAD PERSON?

WHY DO STRAIGHTS HATE GAYS?

LARRY KRAMER is the founr of the prott group ACT UP and the thor of "The Tragedy of Today's Gays.

" DEAR STRAIGHT PEOPLE, Why do you hate gay people so much?

I THK GAYS ARE DISGTG, BUT STILL TREAT THEM AS NORMAL PEOPLE. AM I A BAD PERSON?

Gays are hated. Peter Pace, chairman of the Jot Chiefs, is charge of an timated 65, 000 gay and lbian troops, some fightg for our untry Iraq. Even Garrison Keillor, of all people, is makg really tacky jok about gay parents his lumn.

Hillary Rodham Clton and Barack Obama tried to duck the qutns that Pace’s bigotry raised, nfirmg what gay people know: that there is not one ndidate nng for public office anywhere who dar to e right out, unequivolly, and say cent, supportive thgs about should not vote for any of them. There is not a ndidate or major public figure who would not sell gays down the river.

We have seen this time after time, even om supposedly progrsive policians such as Print Clton wh his “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays the ary and his support of the hio Defense of Marriage Act. Of urse, ’s possible that beg shunned by gays will make policians more popular, but at least we will have our self-rpect.

To vote for them is to llu wh them their utter disda for ’t any of you wonr why heterosexuals treat gays so btally year after year after year, as your people take away our manhood, our womanhood, our personhood? Gay people have paid all the tax you have. So, even wh the most tolerant of new prints, gays will be unable to break ee om this yoke of hate.

Courts le agast gays wh hateful regulary.