State of Repression: The Dark Side of Neo-Puritanism

Night Charm  May 29 09

Puritan’s Pride theatricality: whose benefit is it really for? The performer? The beholder? Maybe both? It’s the long bandied-about open secret the gays have long given the side-eye to: the bigger the manly displays of anti-homo swagger, the gayer the self-defensive motivation behind it. Frankly, the term “homophobia” has never really [...] Full story...

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