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WHAT'S UP WH "GENR CRIL" GAY GUYS?
This is long but thoughtful piece by Ben Appel that hs home on several pots about gay people and what’s happeng now.
For years, I feared homophobic right-wg evangelils. But the days, I’m equally wary of the progrsive activists who ph a distctly homophobic agenda that ni the blogil realy of sex—and who claim that what we are attracted to isn’t male or female bodi per se, but rather male or female genr inti.
This outlook effectively imag away the existence of homosexualy, which, the real world, is of urse rooted physil attractn based on blogil ias also serve to stct genr-nonnformg children (as I once was) that their uniquens dit they may have been born si the “wrong body, ” and so will likely have to m to a lifetime of medilizatn if they want to be happy. But ’s also an implic slur, often directed at gay men wh tradnally mascule—th, “assiatnist, ” toxic, and regrsive—tras. … Sce that time, I’ve noticed that enmy toward “cis” gay men (which often seems a lot like straight up homophobia) has begun to permeate LGBT publitns and social media, whout any sort of nsequenc.