Gay Old Party Outs Itself: Is US Run by Secret Homintern?
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Gay Old Party Outs Itself: Is US Run by Secret Homintern?
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Counterpunch - Sep 13, 2007
http://www.counterpunch.org/block09132007.html
Gay Old Party Outs Itself While Many Ask,
Is U.S. Run by Secret Homintern?
By Dr. SUSAN BLOCK
Recent Republican sex scandals continue to function as amusing Weapons
of Mass Distraction from ongoing Republican fiscal, diplomatic and
military fiascos. An intriguingly large portion of these scandals are
gay, or, lest we offend those members of the Gay Old Party who prefer
to define themselves as not gay, let us say that they are
homoerotic.
Just about all of those GOP public servants caught in the homoerotic
act are screamingly homophobic. They also tend to be religious, often
active religious leaders with wives and families and huge
constituencies who speak out against same-sex marriage and express very
little political tolerance for their openly gay brethren-in-desire.
Take Our Man in the Mens Room, Idaho Senator Larry Craig. He is, he
assures us, not gay. And who are we to insist he is? After all, he
could be bi. The soon-to-be former Senator has got three kids, all
adopted from his wifes first marriage. These adult children spoke
seriously with Craig who stood firm on his position that he was not
gay, and they believed him, at least enough to go on the talk shows,
in hopes of salvaging their stepdad's considerable pension from the
toilet. Craig's tap-dance with the cop takes this scandal-in-the-loo
from tragedy to farce, and oh how the rabble loves a farce. Then
theres former New Life Church Pastor Ted Haggard. Hes also not gay.
At least, he has been pronounced, by his counselor/minister Tim Ralph,
to be completely heterosexual, which is, technically, even more "not
gay" than "not gay." Pastor Ted does seem to have provided the sperm
for his five kids. But his sexual relationship with male escort Mike
Jones, as described in the book I Had to Say Something: The Art of Ted
Haggard's Fall, was way too hot to simply cool down, at least not so
fast. Pastor Ted was the quintessential hypocrite, preaching that
homosexual acts were condemned by God even as he was committing them
with a hooker, while snorting meth and grinning that big scary grin.
But I must admit, Pastor Ted is so crazily charismatic and so
flamboyantly gay, that I'm kind of hoping he "repents" by just
admitting he's bisexual (or whatever he wants to call himself). Then
his wife can say she's bi too, and then they'll both say being gay or
bi is okay with God, and then they'll start a massive mega-church for
gays, lesbians, bisexuals, trannies and alt sex lovers in Boulder,
Colorado. This could happen! If only...
Former Florida Congressman Mark Foley was also "not gay," at least in
the sense that most normal gay adults are not trolling for teenagers.
Foley and Craig were both sacrificed on the altar of Republican purity.
They were expendable liabilities that the GOP shed, like Agamemnon
sacrificed Iphigenia for the sake of strong winds to take his military
to war.
And despite the scandals, the winds of war still blow strong in
America, under the reign of King George II, the chickenhawk,
crotch-stuffed, frat boy exhibitionist who appears to be more
narcissistic than gay, bi or straight, but then there are all those
unaccounted overnight stays at the White House for
gay-escort-cum-journalist Jeff Gannon/Jim Guckert. Or was
Gannon/Guckert's job to erotically discipline Karl Rove? When you
consider Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter and Lynn Cheney's lesbian lit,
and, on the darker side, the homoerotic, deeply sadistic twists of all
that Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib POW Porn, overseen and often
micromanaged right down to the womens underwear by wresting addict
Donald Rumsfeld, the whole Bush Crime Family seems as divinely gay and
"not gay" as Christmas at Liberace's, or Ernst Rohm's.
Nothing against gays or even closet gays. Some of my closest relatives,
friends and favorite people are gay, and some of my best telephone sex
therapy clients are closet gays. Of course, the closet gays tend to be
the ones who say they're "not gay." And who am I to say that they are?
Many of them have decent or even great sex with their wives or
girlfriends. But their desire for some sort of carnal knowledge of the
same gender occasionally and almost irresistibly asserts itself in
various ways, at least in their minds, if not their actions. Their
"sexual orientation" is complicated, much more complex than labels like
gay, or "not gay," "straight, "homosexual," "heterosexual" or even
bisexual can convey.
Some of these closet cases are powerful men with sensitive souls
leading double lives. Some are hypocrites at the lowest rungs of the
ethical ladder, overcompensating for their agonizing discomfort with
their own desires for same-sex relations, their own tortured gayness,
by attempting to punish and humiliate openly gay people. Closet gay
overcompensation virtually ejaculates over the top when these tortured
men channel their fear of being sissies into reckless military
adventure and expenditure. As more and more stories of furtive
man-to-man lust gush forth from our highest offices in the land, it
becomes clear that a vast deeply closeted gay "conservative," usually
(but not always) Republican network of political and religious leaders
has held our nation in its sexual self-hating sadomasochistic thrall
for some time. The twist on this Old Boys Network is that they don't
actually have sex with each other (they prefer pageboys and hot Tearoom
studs), but they do cooperate intimately when it comes to making
"muscular" military policies that put other peoples loved ones in
harms way while flying the flag of some macho ideal.
If you want to stay in the closet, that's your business. And believe
me, I cherish and uphold your right to privacy, gay or "not gay." But
please don't become a public "servant," to punish the closeted side of
yourself, as well as a lot of other people.
Meanwhile, what about the fact that Dick Cheney's phone number is
listed numerous times on the DC Madam's phone bill? Is the major media
refusing to touch that because it's just "straight" sex? After all,
Louisiana Senator David Vitter was only spanked, not sacrificed. Or is
it because this Dick is just too big to expose?
(c) September 12, 2007.
[Dr. Susan Block is a sex educator, cable TV host and author of "The 10
Commandments of Pleasure." Her film Blonde Island: Funk Me is
premiering at the LA Erotica Film Festival this Sunday at 3:30 pm.
Closet GOP Gays and all others over 21 are welcome. Commit Bloggamy
with Dr. Suzy at http://www.drsusanblock.com/blog/ Email her at
libe...@blockbooks.com ]
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