If you did not get a chance to read his unfortunately quite convincing take-down and smack-down of gay culture in its original dead-tree edition, now's your chance. I call it unfortunate because it crystallized several half-formed, hazy uneasinesses of mine* into a clear analysis and made my connection to the gay tribe even more tenuous. Which, if you live in San Francisco and make your living working mostly with gay men, is inconvenient.
In the current culture, being gay is not being a man who loves other men. It is not about the shape of same-sex eros. It is a pre-packaged herd identity (now canonized as LGBT etc.) built out of a culture of group victimism, left-wing politics and --most ironic of all-- a feminist-inspired ambivalence (at best) about actual men and about manhood itself. I wish it weren't true, but it is.
*Coincidence only. I take no credit whatsoever for Jack's work. On the contrary, his has had a very big influence on mine.
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