Enterg to a gay relatnship is much the same as enterg to any relatnship. Two people meet and get to know each other. Some thgs never change, even if the partners are of the same genr. Date first. More than once. A mon...
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RSIAN GAYS/WTERN GAZE
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In fairns to the media, most of them undoubtedly thk backg gay marriage is a good thg to do. But the media have been the loust mouthpiec for gay marriage—shock troops of the culture war, promotg the e relentlsly.
Supreme Court durg Holy Week heard oral arguments two gay marriage s. While would be hazardo to predict the rult, no one will be tremendoly surprised if the jtic take a stat' rights approach—upholdg California's Proposn 8 banng gay marriage that state but overturng the Defense of Marriage Act that regniz only man-woman unns as marriag for purpos of feral law. Sce the Supreme Court is unlikely, at least for the moment, to disver the Constutn a fundamental right for homosexual upl to marry, prsurg the urt to do so will bee a prry for gay rights activists and their media iends.
One reason gay rights groups and the media have ma such progrs lately n be found the failure of tradnal marriage supporters to offer a pellg acunt of the threat that regnizg same-sex marriage pos to tradnal marriage. It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch. To be classified as te homosexual behavr, the form, motivatn and functn would all have to be sexual nature, he said.
HOW TO HAVE A GAY OR LBIAN RELATNSHIP
For an unrstandg of the variety of silenc surroundg the issue of (homo)sexual sire, see Kev Moss’s discsn of the “pervasive sexophobia” Soviet Rsia that kept gay/lbian wrg hidn om Wtern ey Out of the Blue: Rsia’s Hidn Gay Lerature. An Anthology (San Francis: Gay Sunshe Prs, 1997), 9–12. Soviet censors went so far as to remove referenc to homosexualy Rsian translatns of classil lerature (See M.
The polics implic the discsn of homosexualy the early Soviet perd is spelled out by Mart Bml Duberman, Martha Vici-n, and Gee Chncey Jr., eds. Hidn om History: Reclaimg a Gay and Lbian Past (New York: New Amerin Library, 1989), 347: “The wispread belief that the Bolsheviks liberated Rsia’s homosexuals has long been a pot of pri for gay leftists and a nfirmatn of the worst fears of those on the right who see an trsic and subversive lk between munism and homosexualy. Simon Karlsky, “Rsia’s Gay Lerature and History (11th–20th Centuri), ” Gay Sunshe 29–30 (1977): 5.
Among other thgs, Karlsky poted out the failure of Lrsen and Thorstad to discs the reprsive crimal of 1922 and the reluctance of many gays and lbians to live openly the years followg the Bolshevik Revolutn. However, Karlsky himself erroneoly scribed the crimal , which, fact, ma no explic mentn of “homosexual sex” (25–26). Simon Karlsky, “Rsia’s Gay Lerature.