Are we at risk of becoming normal? In a piece entitled Out and Proud Parents, The Economist traces the increasing will of Americans to accept their gay and lesbian neighbours, colleagues and family members. The data are all from the USA. The results for Canada, most observers would probably agree, would show a greater degree of integration. Whereas the last state repealed its sodomy law in 2003, Canada withdrew from the nation’s bedrooms in 1968. While the USA still officially bans gays and lesbians from its armed services, gay and lesbian officers and enlisted personnel in the Canadian Forces scarcely raise an eyebrow. I won’t go on.
The Economist notes “The kind of gay activists who think you can't be authentically gay unless you are permanently in opposition to the mainstream find the prospect of gay assimilation appalling.” Toronto’s gay community activists deal with their frustration, especially since same-sex marriage was secured, with increasingly bizarre campaigns in support of the decriminalization of public sexual activity, destructive drug use, and every extreme left-wing cause that happens along, failing to recognise that gays and lesbians distribute themselves across the political spectrum proportional to the general population, in all likelihood. How much better it would be if the activists engaged in community building instead of irrational protest.
The mantra is changing. Gay is normal...get used to it. Actually, most of the ‘Western’ world already has.
The Economist notes “The kind of gay activists who think you can't be authentically gay unless you are permanently in opposition to the mainstream find the prospect of gay assimilation appalling.” Toronto’s gay community activists deal with their frustration, especially since same-sex marriage was secured, with increasingly bizarre campaigns in support of the decriminalization of public sexual activity, destructive drug use, and every extreme left-wing cause that happens along, failing to recognise that gays and lesbians distribute themselves across the political spectrum proportional to the general population, in all likelihood. How much better it would be if the activists engaged in community building instead of irrational protest.
The mantra is changing. Gay is normal...get used to it. Actually, most of the ‘Western’ world already has.
