Lesbian and Gay News
10/8/2021
'Kay Knight: The Shaming of Homosexuals for Having Sex'
concludes:
"I submit that it’s because shame is alive and kicking in the modern progressive movement, and its target is still lesbians and gay men. As I mentioned, I know how powerful that is, and it’s a big component of how conversion therapy operates. How can this new progressive movement hold that open kink must be seen by all and sundry as a healthy expression of sexuality, but insist that a gay man who wants a penis on his sexual partner, or a lesbian who wants a vulva, are unacceptable? What is this except undiluted homophobia?
Of course a lesbian is attracted to the whole of a woman. But a whole woman will have a vulva, not a penis. Suggesting that this baseline expectation is perverted and unspeakable is absolutely taking us back to the dark days of Section 28, which was in effect all through my secondary school years, when my homosexuality was emerging, and I was already learning to repress and hide it.
Being a gay man is not about glitter, interior decorating, and fabulous make overs of your straight friends. Being a lesbian is not about fixing appliances, having a quirky haircut or being very sporty. To coin a phrase, it’s not a lifestyle. It’s simply about being sexually oriented to your own sex, in exactly the same way being straight is about being sexually oriented to the opposite sex. Having sex matters to a lesbian and gay man as much as it matters to a straight person.
To demand that lesbians and gay men dismiss the relevance of the genitals on their partner is to erase a significant part of us in a way that would never happen to straight people, and that is the essence of inequality. It’s not progressive, it’s coercive and abusive, and if any of us should feel shame, it’s the people who want to push openly LGB people back into a rainbow glitter covered closet."
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