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Stories from a man who fails to meet media expectations of what it means to be gay:
white, frivolous, over sexed yet sexless, shrill, single, stylish, a clown, unimportant, et al.
wednesday 05/19/2004
money enough to build a gate
I�m not going to bother with a link to it (mainly �cause I doubt I�d find it again), but last week I wandered across an online article about some conflicted gay republicans trying to justify supporting Bush even with his position against Gay Marriage, because some things are �more important�.
It�s been bugging me more and more (yet something else I can�t let go of) and reminded me of a story I heard from a friend a couple of weeks ago. He was relating a story about two older men he had met years ago at a Log Cabin republican meeting he attended back in the day.
The two men had been together for over thirty years by that point. They owned two adjacent houses, with a gate built in the fence between the two properties to facilitate easy and unobtrusive travel between the two homes so that family and neighbors wouldn�t suspect that they were, you know, that way.
After spending time with them and other similar gentlemen, my friend quickly decided that he was in fact a democrat.
I wonder how these two men with money enough to hide quietly in respectable plain sight would make of gay marriages finally taking place. Would they want to rush off to Massachusetts to do the respectable thing and marry, or would they view the prospect of open state recognition of their relationship as an outrageous act?
In the article �more important� than civil rights apparently meant a staunch support of defense against terrorism with a timid mention of the economy, but it was fairly obvious that �more important� actually meant money.
What does it mean that there is a segment of the Queer population that would rather have wealth, position, and power at the expense of their own civil rights? What does it mean that some have made the decision that protecting the status quo to protect their own status is more important than protecting their own identity?
Are they actually wise, because after all, with enough money you too can build your own gate in the fence, while maintaining position and respectability, or are they selling off their rights (and everyone else's) for the hope of a tax break?
Sometimes it seems that depression and angst is the only sane reaction to this world we make for ourselves.
~nico