![]() I want to scream about the icky sex I have because I would have preferred the latter ruling: I shouldn’t have to keep quiet about something in order for it to be okay. Texas case enshrined this ideology into law by claiming that it was the petitioners’ privacy that was invaded (ibid.), instead of claiming, for example, that they deserved special protections. ![]() He goes on to explain how the seminal Lawrence v. Valentine explains: “mainstream gay and lesbian activist that homosexual people are essentially the same as heterosexual Americans but for the one fact of privately experienced and conducted sexual desire” (63, my emphasis). As David Valentine points out in Imagining Transgender, gay men have won acceptance into mainstream society precisely by keeping quiet about the sex we have. I often feel like screaming, “Did you hear me?! I said I put a penis in my butt, on purpose, for fun!”īut to do so would undermine much of the rhetoric that has gotten gays, and especially gay men, to where we are today. I am baffled when straight and straitlaced men take this in stride. I am often underwhelmed at people’s reactions to learning I’m gay.
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