“We celebrate the fact that we’re out to the straight world, even though the only thing that means, in many cases, is that they know we’re gay.
“When we logged on, I don’t think most of us realized we were creating new secret lives. I don’t think we knew what we were getting into. But we got into it. For most of us, this is not working. And if it’s not working for you, then it’s time to get off.”
- Michael Joseph Gross, in an Out Magazine story titled Has Manhunt Destroyed Gay Culture?
One thing that really mystifies me about gays now is that they feel they have to make such a big deal about who they prefer to sleep with. I have had many gay friends over the years, but they never spent their time analyzing how “gay” they were and instead went on simply doing whatever they did, and while everybody knew who they went home with at night, it certainly wasn’t of much interest.
But suddenly being “gay” determines everything about them, and it becomes the sole motivating force of their lives and the only thing they think about. I should think even gays themselves would get tired of looking at everything in their lives through that lens. I don’t know what it’s attributable to, possibly to the media, or possibly to the fact that they are now considered an influential power bloc by the Dem party. Still, it’s a bizarre approach to life, and it’s mystifying to me that anybody would want to adopt it.