Gawker’s Brian Moylan says he’s a “shit talker” and “part of the problem.” I’d agree.
With literally millions of gay men, lesbian women, and bisexual and transgender Americans fighting every day for equality and freedom, for the right to marry, fighting to not be fired at work for being a minority, and fighting just for the basic right to walk down the street holding our loved one’s hand without getting sneered at, or without getting gay-bashed — verbally or physically — Gawker’s Brian Moylan decided it would be fun to publish a few “truths” that he claims are “The Secrets Gay Men Don’t Want Straight People to Know.”
Well, he’s wrong.
Moylan published a few facts about “gay men” that are equally applicable to most straight men — and straight women, and lesbians.
Moylan is part of that dying breed who think that being in the closet has its perks, who think that there’s more that divides gays from straights than unites us, who thinks that gays are all oh-so-very-different from straights.
Sorry, Brian.
While your truth may very well lie somewhere in that Leave-It-To-Beaver Father-Knows-Best Far-From-Heaven 1960’s claptrap, most people in the LGBT community are, in fact, just like most people in the straight community.
Brian sounds like that person you meet at a cocktail party who thinks you’re one-of-them and tests the waters by whispering that someone’s “black,” or “gay,” or, “Hispanic,” when gossiping.
I believe most gays and lesbians, most bisexual and transgender Americans are just trying to get or keep a job, pay our bills, feed our families, get to sleep at night, have some fun on weekends, spend time with loved ones, and hope that tomorrow is a better day for everyone.
(Which reminds me of something I wrote a few years ago, “I Do Not Deserve Your Tolerance.” Feed on that, Brian.)
“As gay men and lesbians get closer and closer to the mainstream they’ve often traded in their image as the queer radicals who started the Stonewall Riots for the milquetoast assimilationists who want to get married and have kids and put HRC bumper stickers on their cars,” Moylan writes, in full knowledge that he’ll get slammed on Twitter and Facebook — which he has. (See image from Moylan’s Twitter feed above.)
“That doesn’t mean we’re still not queer radicals,” Moylan adds. “It just means we’re hiding it from you.”
Moylan wants to “expose” “all sorts of secrets that Ted and Ned, the nice gay couple next door to you with the matching BMWs and the prim sweater sets aren’t telling you.” You, as in straight people.
Well, here is Moylan’s antiquated list of “secrets” that he thinks are exclusive to gays:
- Bottoming Is Fun
- Poppers Are Awesome
- Cocksucker Is Not an Insult
- We Have Our Own Celebrities
- We Want to Fuck All the Hot Straight Boys
- Not All Gay Couples Are Monogamous
- We Can Have Sex Anywhere at Anytime
- We Don’t Love Drag Queens As Much As You Do
Silly Moylan probably wrote his little piece because of this piece at iO9, Gawker’s sister site, that finds that almost half of heterosexiuals under 45 have or have had anal sex. That probably really bothered him, made him feel not quite special as he thought he was.
That, and it was a slow news day.
News flash, Brian!
Straight people have anal sex, use poppers, have oral sex, see someone of the opposite sex and are attracted to them, have open relationships, don’t love drag queens as much as you think they do (no offense to drag queens!), and even have their own version of Grindr.
Grow up, Brian, and stop trying to make “gay” something evil, different, secret, and wrong. America already has a Rick Santorum.