Greg Johnson opines that unless sex is procreative, it's just recreational.
The images, inspired by the Genesis story of Jacob wrestling with the angel, show that it can also be revelatory, epiphanic.
Today is Gay Pride Day in San Francisco. (Shouldn't it really be LGBTQQA Pride Day?). People sometimes ask about the pride thing. Why should you be proud of something you were just born with? Well, that's not really the point. Like "Black Pride" --the original contrarian pride, I think--, it is just a strong way of denying shame, of saying, Despite what I've been told, I am not ashamed of who I am.
Like these folks. (Great song. Great band.)
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Bonjour, LPH! Nice to meet another man who has rejected the label of "gay." I personally use the term "androphile," Greek for "man lover." Your use of homo has a similar effect, but you get the bonus of "homo" being the Latin word for man. If pride means living without shame, I agree. but if pride means loudly proclaiming I am happy and demanding things, I don't want that.
I was surprised by the vocal opposition in France to the legalization of same-sex marriage. Many of the people had the same position as me, that homos and lesbians should come up with their own thing and not drastically change what marriage is. I also heard there was a linguistic aspect to it because of how well-controlled the vocabulary of the French language is? I would love to hear your input on how it went.
From America to France, from one member of the silent clan of men who love their fellow men to another, au revoir!
-Sean
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