Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us. Women, you cry for freedom. You say you are no longer satisfied with men; they make you unhappy. We, connoisseurs of the masculine face, the masculine physique, shall take your men from you then. We will amuse them; we will instruct them; we will embrace them when they weep.

The following article titled "The Overhauling of Straight America'' was written by Marshall K. Kirk and Erastes Pill and appeared in Guide Magazine, a homosexual publication, in November 1987.  Homosexuality is their religion and Overhauling of Straight America is their  “bible.” It outlines deceptive strategies and techniques for appealing to the sympathies of the American people and Evangelicals in particular. They will use intimidation lies, fear and demonization if necessary, but they prefer emotional manipulation instead, in attempting to gain the compassion and approval of unsuspecting Americans.

  

THE OVERHAULING OF STRAIGHT AMERICA

By Marshall Kirk and Erastes Pill

The first order of business is desensitization of the American public concerning gays

and gay rights. To desensitize the public is to help it view homosexuality with

indifference instead of with keen emotion. Ideally, we would have straights register

differences in sexual preference the way they register different tastes for ice cream or sports games: she likes strawberry and I like vanilla; he follows baseball and I

follow football. No big deal.

At least in the beginning, we are seeking public desensitization and nothing more.

We do not need and cannot expect a full "appreciation" or "understanding" of

homosexuality from the average American. You can forget about trying to persuade

the masses that homosexuality is a good thing. But if only you can get them to think

that it is just another thing, with a shrug of their shoulders, then your battle for legal

and social rights is virtually won. And to get to shoulder-shrug stage, gays as a class

must cease to appear mysterious, alien, loathsome and contrary. A large-scale

media campaign will be required in order to change the image of gays in America.

And any campaign to accomplish this turnaround should do six things.

[1] TALK ABOUT GAYS AND GAYNESS AS LOUDLY AND AS OFTEN AS

POSSIBLE.

The principle behind this advice is simple: almost any behavior begins to look normal

if you are exposed to enough of it at close quarters and among your acquaintances.

The acceptability of the new behavior will ultimately hinge on the number of one's

fellows doing it or accepting it. One may be offended by its novelty at first--many, in

times past, were momentarily scandalized by "streaking,'' eating goldfish, and

premarital sex. But as long as Joe Six-pack feels little pressure to perform likewise,

and as long as the behavior in question presents little threat to his physical and

financial security, he soon gets used to it and life goes on. The skeptic may still

shake his head and think "people arc crazy these days," but over time his objections

are likely to become more reflective, more philosophical, less emotional.

The way to benumb raw sensitivities about homosexuality is to have a lot of people

talk a great deal about the subject in a neutral or supportive way. Open and frank

talk makes the subject seem less furtive, alien, and sinful, more above-board.

Constant talk builds the impression that public opinion is at least divided on the

subject, and that a sizable segment accepts or even practices homosexuality. Even

rancorous debates between opponents and defenders serve the purpose of

desensitization so long as "respectable" gays are front and center to make their own

pitch. The main thing is to talk about gayness until the issue becomes thoroughly

tiresome.

And when we say talk about homosexuality, we mean just that. In the early stages of

any campaign to reach straight America, the masses should not be shocked and

repelled by premature exposure to homosexual behavior itself. Instead, the imagery

of sex should be downplayed and gay rights should be reduced to an abstract social

question as much as possible. First let the camel get his nose inside the tent--only

later his unsightly derriere!

Where we talk is important. The visual media, film and television, are plainly the

most powerful image-makers in Western civilization. The average American

household watches over seven hours of TV daily. Those hours open up a gateway

into the private world of straights, through which a Trojan horse might be passed. As

far as desensitization is concerned, the medium is the message--of normalcy. So far,

gay Hollywood has provided our best covert weapon in the battle to desensitize the

mainstream. Bit by bit over the past ten years, gay characters and gay themes have

been introduced into TV programs and films (though often this has been done to

achieve comedic and ridiculous affects). On the whole the impact has been

encouraging. The prime-time presentation of Consenting Adults on a major network

in 1985 is but one high-water mark in favorable media exposure of gay issues. But

this should be just the beginning of a major publicity blitz by gay America.

Would a desensitizing campaign of open and sustained talk about gay issues reach every rabid opponent of homosexuality? Of course not. While public opinion is one primary source of mainstream values, religious authority is the other. When conservative churches condemn gays, there are only two things we can do to confound the homophobia of true believers. First, we can use talk to muddy the moral waters. This means publicizing support for gays by more moderate churches, raising theological objections of our own about conservative interpretations of biblical teachings, and exposing hatred and inconsistency. Second, we can undermine the moral authority of homophobic churches by portraying them as antiquated backwaters, badly out of step with the times and with the latest findings of psychology. Against the mighty pull of institutional Religion one must set the mightier draw of Science & Public Opinion (the shield and sword of that accursed "secular humanism"). Such an unholy alliance has worked well against churches before, on such topics as divorce and abortion. With enough open talk about the prevalence and acceptability of homosexuality, that alliance can work again here.

[2] PORTRAY GAYS AS VICTIMS, NOT AS AGGRESSIVE CHALLENGERS.

In any campaign to win over the public, gays must be cast as victims in need of

protection so that straights will be inclined by reflex to assume the role of protector. If

gays are presented, instead, as a strong and prideful tribe promoting a rigidly

nonconformist and deviant lifestyle, they are more likely to be seen as a public

menace that justifies resistance and oppression. For that reason, we must forego the

temptation to strut our "gay pride" publicly when it conflicts with the Gay Victim

image. And we must walk the fine line between impressing straights with our great

numbers, on the one hand, and sparking their hostile paranoia-"They are all around

us!"--on the other.

A media campaign to promote the Gay Victim image should make use of symbols

which reduce the mainstream's sense of threat, which lower it's guard, and which

enhance the plausibility of victimization. In practical terms, this means that jaunty

mustachioed musclemen would keep very low profile in gay commercials and other

public presentations, while sympathetic figures of nice young people, old people,

and attractive women would be featured. (It almost goes without saying that groups

on the farthest margin of acceptability such as NAMBLA, [Ed note -- North American

Man-Boy Love Association] must play no part at all in such a campaign: suspected

child-molesters will never look like victims.)

Now, there are two different messages about the Gay Victim that are worth

communicating. First, the mainstream should be told that gays are victims of fate, in

the sense that most never had a choice to accept or reject their sexual preference.

The message must read: "As far as gays can tell, they were born gay, just as you

were born heterosexual or white or black or bright or athletic. Nobody ever tricked or

seduced them; they never made a choice, and are not morally blameworthy. What

they do isn't willfully contrary - it's only natural for them. This twist of fate could as

easily have happened to you!"

Straight viewers must be able to identify with gays as victims. Mr. and Mrs. Public

must be given no extra excuses to say, "they are not like us." To this end, the

persons featured in the public campaign should be decent and upright, appealing

and admirable by straight standards, completely unexceptionable in appearance--in

a word, they should be indistinguishable from the straights we would like to reach.

(To return to the terms we have used in previous articles, spokesmen for our cause

must be R-type "straight gays" rather than Q-type "homosexuals on display.") Only

under such conditions will the message be read correctly: "These folks are victims of

a fate that could have happened to me."

By the way, we realize that many gays will question an advertising technique, which

might threaten to make homosexuality look like some dreadful disease, which strikes

fated "victims". But the plain fact is that the gay community is weak and must

manipulate the powers of the weak, including the play for sympathy. In any case, we

compensate for the negative aspect of this gay victim appeal under Principle 4.

(Below)

The second message would portray gays as victims of society. The straight majority

does not recognize the suffering it brings to the lives of gays and must be shown:

graphic pictures of brutalized gays; dramatizations of job and housing insecurity,

loss of child custody, and public humiliation: and the dismal list goes on.

"... In any campaign to win over the public, gays must be cast as victims in

need of protection so that straights will be inclined by reflex to assume the

role of protector."

[3] GIVE PROTECTORS A JUST CAUSE.

A media campaign that casts gays as society's victims and encourages straights to

be their protectors must make it easier for those to respond to assert and explain

their new protectiveness. Few straight women, and even fewer straight men, will

want to defend homosexuality boldly as such. Most would rather attach their

awakened protective impulse to some principle of justice or law, to some general

desire for consistent and fair treatment in society. Our campaign should not demand

direct support for homosexual practices, should instead take anti-discrimination as

its theme. The right to free speech, freedom of beliefs, freedom of association, due

process and equal protection of laws-these should be the concerns brought to mind

by our campaign.

It is especially important for the gay movement to hitch its cause to accepted

standards of law and justice because its straight supporters must have at hand a

cogent reply to the moral arguments of its enemies. The homophobes clothe their

emotional revulsion in the daunting robes of religious dogma, so defenders of gay

rights must be ready to counter dogma with principle.

[4] MAKE GAYS LOOK GOOD.

In order to make a Gay Victim sympathetic to straights you have to portray him as

Everyman. But an additional theme of the campaign should be more aggressive and

upbeat: to offset the increasingly bad press that these times have brought to

homosexual men and women, the campaign should paint gays as superior pillars of

society. Yes, yes, we know--this trick is so old it creaks. Other minorities use it all the

time in ads that announce proudly, "Did you know that this Great Man (or Woman)

was _________?" But the message is vital for all those straights who still picture

gays as "queer" people-- shadowy, lonesome, fail, drunken, suicidal, child-snatching

misfits.

The honor roll of prominent gay or bisexual men and women is truly eyepopping.

From Socrates to Shakespeare, from Alexander the Great to Alexander Hamilton,

from Michelangelo to Walt Whitman, from Sappho to Gertrude Stein, the list is old

hat to us but shocking news to heterosexual America. In no time, a skillful and clever

media campaign could have the gay community looking like the veritable fairy

godmother to Western Civilization.

Along the same lines, we shouldn't overlook the Celebrity Endorsement. The

celebrities can be straight (God bless you, Ed Asner, wherever you are) or gay.

[5] MAKE THE VICTIMIZERS LOOK BAD.

At a later stage of the media campaign for gay rights-long after other gay ads have

become commonplace-it will be time to get tough with remaining opponents. To be

blunt, they must be vilified. (This will be all the more necessary because, by that

time, the entrenched enemy will have quadrupled its output of vitriol and

disinformation.) Our goal is here is twofold. First, we seek to replace the

mainstream's self-righteous pride about its homophobia with shame and guilt.

Second, we intend to make the antigays look so nasty that average Americans will

want to dissociate themselves from such types.

The public should be shown images of ranting homophobes whose secondary traits

and beliefs disgust middle America. These images might include: the Ku Klux Klan

demanding that gays be burned alive or castrated; bigoted southern ministers

drooling with hysterical hatred to a degree that looks both comical and deranged;

menacing punks, thugs, and convicts speaking coolly about the "fags" they have

killed or would like to kill; a tour of Nazi concentration camps where homosexuals

were tortured and gassed.

A campaign to vilify the victimizers is going to enrage our most fervid enemies, of

course. But what else can we say? The shoe fits, and we should make them try it on

for size, with all of America watching.

[6] SOLICIT FUNDS: THE BUCK STOPS HERE

Any massive campaign of this kind would require unprecedented expenditures for

months or even years--an unprecedented fundraising drive.

Effective advertising is a costly proposition: several million dollars would get the ball

rolling. There are 10-15 million primarily homosexual adults in this country: if each

one of them donated just two dollars to the campaign, its war chest would actually

rival that of its most vocal enemies. And because those gays not supporting families usually have more discretionary income than average, they could afford to contribute much more."... We intend to make the antigays look so nasty that average Americans will

want to dissociate themselves from such types."

But would they? Or is the gay community as feckless, selfish, uncommitted, and

short-sighted as its critics claim? We will never know unless the new campaign

simultaneously launches a concerted nationwide appeal for funding support from

both known and anonymous donors. The appeal should be directed both at gays

and at straights who care about social justice.

In the beginning, for reasons to be explained in a moment, the appeal for funds may

have to be launched exclusively through the gay press--national magazines, local

newspapers, flyers at bars, notices in glossy skin magazines. Funds could also

come through the outreach of local gay organizations on campuses and in

metropolitan areas. Eventually, donations would be solicited directly alongside

advertisements in the major straight media.

There would be no parallel to such an effort in the history of the gay community in

America. If it failed to generate the needed capital to get started; there would be little

hope for the campaign and l little hope for major progress toward gay rights in the

near future. For the moment let us suppose that gays could see how donations

would greatly serve their long-term interest, and that sufficient funds could be raised.

An heroic assumption.

GETTING ON THE AIR, OR, YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE.

Without access to TV, radio, and the mainstream press, there will be no campaign.

This is a tricky problem, became many impresarios of the media simply refuse to

accept what they call "issue-advertising" -- persuasive advertising can provoke a

storm of resentment from the public and from sponsors, which is bad for business.

The courts have confirmed the broadcaster's right to refuse any "issue advertising"

he dislikes.

What exactly constitutes "issue advertising"? It evidently does not include

platitudinous appeals to the virtues of family unity (courtesy of the Mormons) neither

does it include tirades against perfidious Albion courtesy of Lyndon LaRouche);

neither does it include reminders that a Mind-Is-a Terrible Thing to Waste (courtesy

of the United Negro College Fund); neither does it include religious shows which

condemn gay "sinners"; neither does it include condemnations of nuclear war or

race discrimination--at least not in Massachusetts. Some guys get all the breaks.

What issue advertising does include these days is almost any communiqué

presented openly by a homosexual organization. The words "gay" and

"homosexual"' are considered controversial whenever they appear.

Because most straightforward appeals are impossible, the National Gay Task Force has had to cultivate quiet backroom liaisons with broadcast companies and newsrooms in order to make sure that issues important to the gay community receive some coverage; but such an arrangement is hardly ideal, of course, because it means that the gay community's image is controlled by the latest news event instead of by careful design--and recently most of the news about gays has been negative. So what can be done to crash the gates of the major media? Several things, advanced in several stages.

START WITH THE FINE PRINT

Newspapers and magazines may very well be hungrier for gay advertising dollars

than television and radio arc. And the cost of ads in print is generally lower. But

remember that the press, for the most part, is only read by better-educated

Americans, many of who are already more accepting of homosexuality in any case.

So to get more impact for our dollars, we should skip the New Republic and New

Left Review readers and head for Time, People, and the National Enquirer. (Of

course, the gay community may have to establish itself as a regular advertising

presence in more sophisticated forums first before it is accepted into the mass

press.)

While we're storming the battlements with salvos of ink, we should also warm the

mainstream up a bit with a subtle national campaign on highway billboards. In simple

bold print on dark backgrounds, a series of unobjectionable messages should be

introduced:

IN RUSSIA, THEY TELL YOU

WHAT TO BE. IN AMERICA

WE HAVE THE FREEDOM

TO BE OURSELVES...

AND TO BE THE BEST.

Or

PEOPLE HELPING INSTEAD

OF HATING--THAT 'S

WHAT AMERICA IS ALL ABOUT.

And so on. Each sign will tap patriotic sentiment, each message will drill a seemingly

agreeable proposition into mainstream heads - a "public service message" suited to

our purposes. And, if their owners will permit it, each billboard will be signed, in

slightly smaller letters, "Courtesy of the National Gay Task Force" - to build positive

associations and get the public used to seeing such sponsorship.

VISUAL STAGE 1: YOU REALLY OUGHTTA BE IN PICTURES

As for television and radio, a more elaborate plan may be needed to break the ice.

For openers, naturally, we must continue to encourage the appearance of favorable

gay characters in films and TV shows. Daytime talk shows also remain a useful

avenue for exposure.

But to speed things up we might consider a bold stratagem to gain media attention.

The scheme we have in mind would require careful preparations, yet it would save

expense even while it elevated the visibility and stature of the gay movement

overnight.

Well before the next elections for national office, we might lay careful plans to run

symbolic gay candidates for every high political office in this country. (Such plans

would have to deal somehow with the tricky problem of inducing gays and straights

to sign enough endorsement petitions to get us on the ballot.) Our 50-250

candidates would participate in such debates as they could, run gay-themed

advertisements coordinated at our national headquarters, and demand equal time on

the air. They could then graciously pull out of the races before the actual elections,

while formally endorsing more viable straight contenders. (With malicious humor,

perhaps, in some states we could endorse our most rabid opponents.) It is essential

not to ask people actually to vote Yea or Nay on the gay issue at this early stage:

such action would end up committing most to the Nay position and would only tally

huge and visible defeats for our cause.

Through such a political campaign, the mainstream would get over the initial shock

of seeing gay ads, and the acceptability of such ads would be fortified by the most

creditable context possible; and all this would be accomplished before non-electoral

advertising was attempted by the gay community. During the campaign all hell would

break loose, but if we behaved courageously and respectable our drive would gain

legitimacy in and case and might even become a cause celebre. If all went as

planned, the somewhat desensitized public and the major networks themselves

would be 'readied for the next step of our program.

VISUAL STAGE 2: PEEKABOO ADVERTISING

At this point the gay community has its foot in the door, and it is time to ask the

networks to accept gay sponsorship of certain ads and shows. Timing is critical: The

request must be made immediately after our national political ads disappear. Failing

that, we should request sponsorship the next time one of the networks struts its

broad-mindedness by televising a film or show with gay characters or themes. If they

wish to look consistent instead of hypocritical, we'll have them on the spot.

But the networks would still be forced to say No unless we made their resistance

look patently unreasonable, and possibly illegal. We'd do just that by proposing "gay

ads" patterned exactly after those currently sponsored by the Mormons and others.

As usual, viewers would be treated to squeak-clean skits on the importance of family

harmony and understanding --this time the narrator would end by saying, "This

message was brought to you by --the National Gay Task Force." All very quiet and

subdued. Remember: exposure is everything, and the medium is the message.

"... Exposure is everything and the medium is the message."

The gay community should join forces with other civil liberties groups of respectable

cast to promote bland messages about America the Melting Pot, always ending with

an explicit reference to the Task Force of some other gay organization. Making the

best of a bad situation, we can also propose sympathetic media appeals for gifts and

donations to fund AIDS research--if Jerry Lewis and the March of Dimes can do it,

so can we. Our next indirect step will be to advertise locally on behalf of support

groups peripheral to the gay community: frowzy straight moms and dads announcing

phone numbers and meeting times for "Parents of Gays" or similar gatherings. Can't

you just see such ads now, presented between messages from the Disabled Vets

and the Postal Workers Union?

VISUAL STAGE 3: ROLL OUT THE BIG GUNS

By this point, our salami tactics will have carved out, slice by slice, a large portion of

access to the mainstream media. So what then? It would finally be time to bring gay

ads out of the closet. The messages of such ads should directly address lingering

public fears about homosexuals as loathsome and contrary aliens. For examples,

the following are possible formats for TV or radio commercials designed to chip

away at chronic misperceptions.

Format A for Familiarization: The Testimonial.

To make gays seem less mysterious, present a series of short spots featuring the

boy-or girl-next-door, fresh and appealing, or warm and lovable grandma grandpa

types. Seated in homey surroundings, they respond to an off camera interviewer

with assurance, good nature, and charm. Their comments bring out three social

facts:

1. There is someone special in their life, a long-term relationship (to stress gay

stability, monogamy, commitment);

2. Their families are very important to them, and are supportive of them (to

stress that gays are not "anti-family," and that families need not be anti-gay.)

3. As far as they can remember they have always been gay, and were probably

born gay; they certainly never decided on a preference one way or the other

(stressing that gays are doing what is natural for them, and are not being

willfully contrary). The subjects should be interviewed alone, not with their

lovers or children, for to include others in the picture would unwisely raise

disturbing questions about the complexities of gay social relations, which

these commercials could not explain. It is best instead to take one thing at a

time.

Format B for Positive associations: The Celebrity Spot.

While it might be useful to present celebrity endorsements by currently popular gay

figures and straight sympathizers (Johnny Mathis? Marlo Thomas?), the

homophobia climate of America would make such brash endorsements unlikely in

the near future. So early celebrity spots will instead identify historical gay or bisexual

personalities who are illustrious and dignified...and dead. The ads could be sardonic

and indirect. For example, over regal music and a portrait or two, a narrator might announce simply: Michelangelo (an art class), Tchaikovsky (a music class), Tennessee Williams (a drama class), etc.

Format C for Victim Sympathy: Our Campaign to Stop Child Abuse.

As we said earlier, there are many ways to portray gays as victims of discrimination:

images of brutality, tales of job loss and family separation, and so on. But we think

something like the following 30-sccond commercials would get to the heart of the

matter best of all.

The camera slowly moves in on a middle-class teenager, sitting alone in his semidarkened

bedroom. The boy is pleasing and unexceptional in appearance, except

that he has been roughed up and is staring silently, pensively, with evident distress.

As the camera gradually focuses in on his face, a narrator comments: It will happen

to one in every ten sons. As he grows up he will realize that he feels differently about

things than most of his friends. If he lets it show, he'll be an outsider made fun of,

humiliated, attacked. If he confides in his parents, they may throw him out of the

house, onto the streets. Some will say he is "anti-family." Nobody will let him be

himself. So he will have to hide. From his friends, his family. And that's hard. It's

tough enough to be a kid these days, but to be the one in ten... A message from the

National Gay Task Force.

What is nice about such an ad is that it would economically portray gays as innocent

and vulnerable, victimized and misunderstood, surprisingly numerous yet not

menacing. It also renders the "anti-family" charge absurd and hypocritical.

Format D for Identification with Victims: The Old Switcheroo.

The mainstream will identify better with the plight of gays if straights can, once in a

while, walk a mile in gay shoes. A humorous television or radio ad to help them do

this might involve a brief animated or dramatized scenario, as follows.

The camera approaches the mighty oak door of the boss's office, which swings

open, and the camera (which represents you the viewer) enters the room. Behind

the oversized desk sits a fat and scowling old curmudgeon chomping on a cigar. He

looks up at the camera (i.e. at the viewer) and snarls, " So it's you, Smithers. Well

You’re fired!" The voice of a younger man is heard to reply with astonishment, "But--but--Mr. Thomburg, I've been with your company for ten years.

I thought you liked my work." The boss responds, with a tone of disgust, "Yes, yes, Smithers your work is quite adequate. But I've heard rumors that you've been seen around town with some kind of girlfriend. A girlfriend! Frankly I'm shocked. We're not about to start hiring any heterosexuals in this company. Now get out." The younger man speaks

once more: "But boss, that's just not fair! What if it were you?" The boss glowers

back as the camera pulls quickly out of the room and the big door slams shut.

Printed on the door: "A message from the National Gay Task Force."

One can easily imagine similar episodes involving housing or other discrimination.

Format E for Vilification of Victimizers: Damn the Torpedoes.

We have already indicated some of the images which might be damaging to the

homophobic vendetta: ranting and hateful religious extremists neo-Nazis, and Ku

Klux Klansmen made to look evil and ridiculous (hardly a difficult task).

These images should be combined with those of their gay victims by a method

propagandists call the "bracket technique." For example, for a few seconds an

unctuous beady-eyed Southern preacher is seen pounding the pulpit in rage about

"those sick, abominable creatures." While his tirade continues over the soundtrack,

the picture switches to pathetic photos of gays who look decent, harmless, and

likable; and then we cut back to the poisonous face of the preacher, and so forth.

The contrast speaks for itself. The effect is devastating.

"...it would portray gays as innocent and vulnerable, victimized and

misunderstood, surprisingly numerous, yet not menacing."

Format F for Funds: SOS

Alongside or during these other persuasive advertisements, we would have to solicit

donations so that the campaign might continue. Direct appeals from celebrities

(preferable living ones, thank you) might be useful here. All appeals must stress that

money can be given anonymously (e.g. via money orders) and that all donations are

confidential. "We can't help unless you help," and all that.

The Time Is Now

We have sketched out here a blueprint for transforming the social values of straight

America. At the core of our program is a media campaign to change the way the

average citizens view homosexuality. It is quite easy to find fault with such a

campaign. We have tried to be practical and specific here, but the proposals may

still have a visionary sheen.

There are one hundred reasons why the campaign could not be done or would be

risky. But there are at least 20 million good reasons why some such program must

be tried in the coming years: the welfare and happiness of every gay man and

woman in this country demand it. As the last large, legally oppressed minority in

American society, it is high time that gays took effective measures to rejoin the

mainstream in pride and strength. We believe that, like it or not, such a campaign is

the only way of doing so anytime soon.

And, let us repeat, time may be running out. The AIDS epidemic is sparking anger

and fear in the heartland of straight America. As the virus leaks out of homosexual

circles and into the rest of society, we need have no illusions about who is receiving

the blame. The ten years ahead may decide for the next forty whether gays claim

their liberty and equality or are driven back, once again, as America's caste of

detested untouchables. It's more than a quip: speak now or forever hold your peace.

  

The Homosexual Manifesto 

This essay was originally printed in the February 15, 1987 issue of Gay Community News, later reprinted in the February 15-21 1987 Congressional Record.

This is outré, madness, a tragic, cruel fantasy, an eruption of inner rage, on how the oppressed desperately dream of being the oppressor.

We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of you shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all-male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us. Women, you cry for freedom. You say you are no longer satisfied with men; they make you unhappy. We, connoisseurs of the masculine face, the masculine physique, shall take your men from you then. We will amuse them; we will instruct them; we will embrace them when they weep.

Women, you say you wish to live with each other instead of with men. Then go and be with each other. We shall give your men pleasures they have never known because we are foremost men too and only man knows how to truly please another man; only one man can understand with depth and feeling the mind and body of another man.

All laws banning homosexual activity will be revoked. Instead, legislation shall be passed which engenders love between men.

All homosexuals must stand together as brothers; we must be united artistically, philosophically, socially, politically, and financially. We will triumph only when we present a common face to the vicious heterosexual enemy.

If you dare to cry faggot, fairy, queer, at us, we will stab you in your cowardly hearts and defile your dead, puny bodies.

We shall write poems of the love between men; we shall stage plays in which man openly caresses man; we shall make films about the love between heroic men which will replace the cheap, superficial, sentimental, insipid, juvenile, heterosexual infatuations presently dominating your cinema screens.

We shall sculpt statues of beautiful young men, of bold athletes, which will be placed in your parks, your squares, and your plazas. The museums of the world will be filled only with paintings of graceful, naked lads.

Our writers and artists will make love between men fashionable and de rigueur, and we will succeed because we are adept at setting styles. We will eliminate heterosexual liaisons through the devices of wit and ridicule, devices that we are skilled in employing.

We will unmask the powerful homosexuals who masquerade as heterosexuals. You will be shocked and frightened when you find that your presidents and their sons, your industrialists, your senators, your mayors, your generals, your athletes, your film stars, your television personalities, your civic leaders, your priests are not the safe, familiar, bourgeois, heterosexual figures you assumed them to be. We are everywhere; we have infiltrated your ranks. Be careful when you speak of homosexuals because we are always among you; we may be sleeping in the same bed with you.

There will be no compromises. We are not middle-class weaklings. Highly intelligent, we are the natural aristocrats of the human race, and steely-minded aristocrats never settle for less. Those who oppose us will be exiled. We shall raise vast, private armies, as Mishima did, to defeat you.

We shall conquer the world because warriors inspired by and banded together by homosexual love and honor are as invincible as were the ancient Greek soldiers. The family unit spawning ground of lies, betrayals, mediocrity, hypocrisy, and violence will be abolished. The family unit, which only dampens imagination and curbs free will, must be eliminated. Perfect boys will be conceived and grown in the genetic laboratory. They will be bonded together in a communal setting, under the control and instruction of homosexual savants.

All churches that condemn us will be closed. Our only gods are handsome young men. We adhere to a cult of beauty, moral and aesthetic. All that is ugly and vulgar and banal will be annihilated. Since we are alienated from middle-class heterosexual conventions, we are free to live our lives according to the dictates of the pure imagination. For us too much is not enough.

The exquisite society to emerge will be governed by an elite comprised of gay poets. One of the major requirements for a position of power in the new society of homoeroticism will be indulgence in the Greek passion. Any man contaminated with heterosexual lust will be automatically barred from a position of influence. All males who insist on remaining stupidly heterosexual will be tried in homosexual courts of justice and will become invisible men. We shall rewrite history, history filled and debased with your heterosexual lies and distortions.

We shall portray the homosexuality of the great leaders and thinkers who have shaped the world. We will demonstrate that homosexuality and intelligence and imagination are inextricably linked, and that homosexuality is a requirement for true nobility, true beauty in a man.

We shall be victorious because we are fueled with the ferocious bitterness of the oppressed that have been forced to play seemingly bit parts in your dumb, heterosexual shows throughout the ages. We too are capable of firing guns and manning the barricades of the ultimate revolution. Tremble, hetero swine, when we appear before you without our masks!