Michael Swift's Gay Manifesto

[Rakhmetov]

http://www.dadi.org/homagnda.htm

[Revy]

why did you link to this? Is it because you like what was written or....what? I'm just confused what you're trying to say. I'm not jumping to conclusions but you should explain...

I hope you don't approve of that site. It seems like they posted being homophobic and trying to prove some nefarious "gay agenda" exists. I don't think the author of that was being serious.



Dads Against the Divorce Industry

DA*DI is devoted to reinstating the societal valuation of Marriage and the traditional, nuclear American Family, with particular emphasis on the essential role of FATHERS.
DA*DI offers contemporary reports and commentary on culture; its aberrations and its heroes.

[Crux]

I don't think Micheal Swift is the author. I too would like to know the OP's point though? I did find the text rather interesting, it's obviously written more to provoke thought than as a real manifesto.

[Rakhmetov]

I like it too. Of course it's hyperbole and not to be taken literally but it is to be taken as a satiric manifesto.

[Queercommie Girl]

I like it too. Of course it's hyperbole and not to be taken literally but it is to be taken as a satiric manifesto.

What is your opinion of the radical LGBT movement? Do you support it or not?

The site "DADI" seems to be quite reactionary in its promotion of the conservative-style family etc, so if they invent some kind of objectively non-existent "gay manifesto" to mainly make sarcastic fun out of it, and you seem to like it, does this mean you are on the side of the DADI site?

[Queercommie Girl]

I don't think Micheal Swift is the author. I too would like to know the OP's point though? I did find the text rather interesting, it's obviously written more to provoke thought than as a real manifesto.

It's not the text itself that is of primary importance, but the website on which it appears. "DADI (Dads Against the Divorce Industry)" is obviously a reactionary conservative site aimed at promoting the conservative family.

The conservative bourgeois family is not really compatible with socialism, as Engels pointed out in his book The Origins of the Family.

[Rakhmetov]

What is your opinion of the radical LGBT movement? Do you support it or not?

The site "DADI" seems to be quite reactionary in its promotion of the conservative-style family etc, so if they invent some kind of objectively non-existent "gay manifesto" to mainly make sarcastic fun out of it, and you seem to like it, does this mean you are on the side of the DADI site?

I was surfing and came upon this Swift article. I didn't happen on this site by entering a url address. Check this out if you please.

A satirical (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire) article by Michael Swift which appeared in the Gay Community News (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Community_News_(Boston)) in February 1987 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1987) entitled "Gay Revolutionary", describes a scenario in which homosexual men dominate American society (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_society) and suppress all things heterosexual. This was reprinted in Congressional Record (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Record) without the opening disclaimer which made it clear that the article's text was not intended to be taken literally.[27] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_agenda#cite_note-26)
The term is sometimes used satirically as a counterfoil by people who would normally find this term offensive, such as the spoof agenda found on the Betty Bowers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Bowers) satirical website,[28] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_agenda#cite_note-27) and when Bishop Gene Robinson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Robinson) declared that "Jesus is the agenda, the homosexual agenda in the Episcopal Church".[29] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_agenda#cite_note-28)[30] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_agenda#cite_note-29) On an episode of The Daily Show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Show), Jon Stewart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stewart) defined the gay agenda as "gay marriage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_marriage), civil rights (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights) protection, Fleet Week (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Week) expanded to Fleet Year, Federal Emergency Management Agency (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Emergency_Management_Agency) (FEMA) assistance for when it's raining men (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_raining_men), Kathy Griffin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Griffin) to host everything and a nationwide ban on pleated pants."[31] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_agenda#cite_note-30)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_agenda