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Rob Tong
June 24, 2004
June is Gay History Month, so I'm told.
In honor of this time, I'd like to inform you about some 'gay history' as well...the information the homosexual community doesn't want you to know. It is this backroom information that shines the most light. And in understanding real gay past, it will help you get a better understanding of real gay present...and prepare you for action against the real gay future.
Ready? There will be a test at the end.
In 1973, Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, a psychiatric professor at Columbia University, spearheaded the American Pyschiatric Association's decision to declassify homosexuality as a mental-health disorder. Despite that landmark change within psychiatric circles, society still did not accept homosexuals, even through the 80s. Without societal acceptance, psychiatric acceptance meant nothing. Therefore, in 1987, two activists, Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen wrote a manifesto called "The Overhauling of Straight America" that described how the homosexual movement was to swing public perception. Kirk and Madsen outlined six steps; I have recategorized them into three steps for brevity. All quotes below are from that manifesto unless otherwise indicated.
1. Capture the media.
Kirk and Madsen noted that the American public needed to be "desensitized" to the issue of homosexuality and homosexual rights. In other words, the public needs to "view homosexuality with indifference instead of with keen emotion" with the goal of having American attitudes go from loathsome to shrugging their shoulders.[1] To this end, one of Kirk and Madsen's tactics was to "talk about gays and gayness as loudly and as often as possible" because "almost any behavior begins to look normal if you are exposed to enough of it at close quarters and among your acquaintances." But swinging public perception of homosexuality via one-on-one evangelism would take decades, if not longer. So what was the homosexual movement to do?