Gay Liberation Manifesto (1972)
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| 1972 | Gay Liberation Front
This would be better named: While The Sheep and Their
Shepherds Slept.
As indicated repeatedly in this manifesto, the group that initially
penned this perverse list of things they sought to overthrow and war against,
did not have the means to make any of these things see the light of day. Their
goals here were not targeted specifically to
Energized for change, and seeking power over their households to
the exclusion of unreasonable, out of touch, irrelevant and to be ignored
husbands, these women gladly threw in their support for all this change in the
name of “Fairness” and in many cases brought their churches to support a vast
array of new laws and federal legislation under the banner of equal rights and
fairness, under the banner of political correctness and under the banner of
hate speech and legislation increasing to penalties of any crimes deemed hate
crimes. All of these things were done primarily to bolster the rights of
homosexuals and in order to pass they were guised as having different purposes.
We need to say that all this happened with the support of women
voters and Christian voter’s, had these made any strong stand against these
things none of this would have been enacted. And senators and congressmen
throughout even the Bible belt passed the initiatives, the legislation and
created the bureaucratic agencies to see to the implementation of these things.
All of these things occurred during the watches of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Kenneth Hagin,
Kenneth Copeland, and Bob Mumford, and dozens of other influential church
leaders of the day – none cried out a warning, none stood up against this
onslaught on the charismatic and deeper life end all those who had declared
themselves to be apostles and prophets uttered not a word or warning as to what
was happening right before their eyes.
We have spoken repeatedly as the Lord has commanded that none of these
men and their national ministries, not one of them are men of God, not one of
them are men of the spirit -- they are all hirelings that have made themselves
into multi-millionaires at the expense of sheep that beg to be fleeced and
killed all the day long. This article is confirmation upon confirmation upon
confirmation of things that God has spoken for almost four years.
Realize that the fruit of this is the coming overthrow of Europe by
Muslimism and the blood of the tens of millions that will perish by starvation,
war, terrorist acts, in torture and beatings, in slavery will be laid to the
account in full to the watchmen that were set upon the wall that cried out not
a warning -- and all that have supported
all these ministries will also be made partakers of the blood of all that shall
be lost. This is a time to weep and cry
out to the Lord – who among these hirelings is sounding the trumpet? Who among
these hirelings is able to speak dreams and visions from God and declare from
the mouth of the Lord what is to come to pass? This is the time for repentance,
it is a time of reconciliation of households it is an hour of haughty women and
haughty children being reconciled to their husbands and fathers regardless of
whether they are believers or unbelievers or it means being equally or
unequally yoked. This is the day to try to restore in some semblance all that
was lost in but a single generation.
We have many news articles that should be reread on light of the
knowledge of what is written here (and in particular the article from the
ex-feminist entitled The Road to Islam) -- she is detailing what is contained
in the manifesto as what has brought the whole of the EU to where it is today
in only a single generation.
One final note here this is not a call for Christian lobbying
groups, Christian lobbyists, Christians sending threatening letters or hate
mail liberal congressmen or Christian activists or Christian’s seeking to rule
and lord it over the gentiles. All of these activities are unscriptural and
against the teachings of Christ Himself concerning the activities of those who
would be His disciples. Instead, it is a call to pray.
London,
1971, revised 1978
Introduction
Throughout recorded history,
oppressed groups have organized to claim their rights and obtain their needs.
Homosexuals, who have been oppressed by physical violence and by ideological
and psychological attacks at every level of social interaction, are at last
becoming angry.
To you, our gay sisters and brothers,
we say that you are oppressed; we intend to show you examples of the hatred and fear with which
straight society relegates us to the position and treatment of sub-humans, and to explain their basis. We will show you how we can use
our righteous anger to uproot the present oppressive system with its decaying
and constricting ideology,
and how we, together with other oppressed groups, can start to form a new
order, and a liberated lifestyle, from the alternatives which we offer.
HOW We Are Oppressed
FAMILY
The oppression of gay people
starts in the most basic unit of society, the family. consisting
of the man in charge, a slave as his wife, and their children on whom they
force themselves as the ideal models. The very form of the family works against homosexuality.
At some point nearly all gay people have
found it difficult to cope with having the restricting images of man or woman
pushed on them by their parents. It may have been from very early on, when the
pressures to play with the 'right' toys, and thus prove boyishness or
girlishness, drove against the child's inclinations. But for all of us this is
certainly a problem by the time of adolescence, when we are expected to prove
ourselves socially to our parents as members of the right sex and to start
being a 'real' young man or a 'real' young woman. The tensions can be very
destructive.
The fact that gay people notice
they are different from other men and women in the family situation, causes
them to feel ashamed, guilty and failures. How many of us have really dared by
honest with our parents? How many of us have been thrown out of home? How many
of us have been pressured into marriage, sent to psychiatrists, frightened into
sexual inertia, ostracized, banned, emotionally destroyed-all by our parents? (They are angered, stating
that they believe their numbers are diminished by parents forcing a child who
is teetering on the edge of gayness into being a normal husband or wife – so by
this they are declaring that the family and household with a man ruling over
the household is their number one enemy of
gay society.)
SCHOOL
Family experiences may differ
widely, but in
their education all children confront a common situation. (Here they identify schools as
a vehicle for public social change. – and not surprisingly liberalism and the
umbrella of all these liberal
organizations, not the least of them being homosexuals and lesbians – overthrow
the education system – in order to create their gay utopia, much like
Victorianism sought to create a feminist utopia using the schools, church ad
government to forge society into their image and likeness.) Schools reflect (Can be used to re-engineer) the values of society in their formal
academic curriculum, and reinforce them in their morality and discipline. Boys
learn competitive ego-building sports, and have more opportunity in science,
whereas girls are given emphasis on domestic subjects, needlework etc. Again,
we gays were all forced into a rigid sex role, which we did not want or need.
It is quite common to discipline children for behaving in any way like the
opposite sex; degrading titles like 'sissy' and 'tomboy' are widely used. (So all of these were flipped
in the 70’s 80’s and 90’s –but by the 2000’s the goal had not been realized and
there has been an increasing public backlash against this liberalization of
schools – and Liberals have not known what to do now that they are viewed as
the man and the oppressor with their forced indoctrination.)
In the content of education,
homosexuality is generally ignored, even where we know it exists, as in history
(hence gay
history is lauded) and
literature (hence
gay art in all forms is lauded).
Even sex education, (hence gay sex teaching is mandatory in high schools and middle
schools and there is a move to push it down to grade school) which has been considered a new liberal
dynamic of secondary schooling, proves to be little more than an extension of
Christian morality. (Schools they say in the 1970’s were used as an extension of the
church – this was not true in New York State schools from which I graduated in
1976) Homosexuality is again either ignored, or
attacked with moralistic warnings and condemnations. (They are talking about the
government films that were shown in the 1950’s and early 1960’s) The adolescent recognizing his or her
homosexuality might (They are admitting all of this is theoretical) feel totally alone in the world, or a
pathologically ship wreck.
CHURCH
Formal religious
education is still part of everyone's schooling, (This again dates the writers to having attended public schools in
the 1950’s and early 1960’s)
and our whole legal structure is supposedly based on Christianity (Judea-Christian tradition of
bible schools and seminaries for priests and ministers – which is true in all
western civilization and the U.S. education system was started in the 1800’s by
the church and modeled after it.)
whose archaic and irrational teachings (Read this as bible based)
support the
family and marriage as the only permitted condition for sex. (So here the attack lines are drawn against the family and the
church – that these have been outlined as the two greatest enemies of the gay
movement and their desires of having a gay utopia –like
THE MEDIA
The press, radio, television and
advertising are used as reinforcements against us, and make possible the control
of people's thoughts on an unprecedented scale. (Here along with the schools
the media is ear marked as having great power to affect social engineering.) Entering everyone's home, affecting everyone's
life, (this is
also clearly a false statement as liberals controlled the media decades before
this was written – and had been engaged in social engineering towards creating
greater inroads of liberalism in a decidedly conservative society.) the media controllers, all
representatives of the rich, male-controlled world, can exaggerate or suppress
whatever information suits them.
Under different circumstances, (Under our rule or by our making
them our ally) the media
might not be the weapon of a small minority. The present controllers are
therefore dedicated defenders of things as they stand. Accordingly, the images of people which
they transmit in their pictures and words do not subvert, but support society's
image of 'normal' man and woman. It follows that we are characterized as
scandalous, obscene perverts; as rampant, wild sex-monsters; as pathetic,
doomed and compulsive degenerates; while the truth is blanketed under a
conspiracy of silence. (Here is defined the change in news reporting – we call this today
“political correctness” so that the race, religion or sexual preference is
hidden as to cover the perpetrators – in Europe how this political correctness now covers
the Muslims as they overthrow the whole region – this is reported on this site
by two news articles from European ex-feminists that are terrified out of their
minds by what they see that is going to come to pass shortly to their entire
sisterhood.
WORDS
(This is directly
the call to what we now term as Political Correctness – the crime of crimes,
that unless undone will lead to imprisonment and execution – arrests and court
cases and imprisonment already occurs for this in Europe and Canada. ) Anti-homosexual morality and ideology,
at every level of society, manifest themselves in a special vocabulary for
denigrating gay people. There is abuse like 'pansy', 'fairy',
'lesbo' to hurl at men and women who can't or won't
fit stereotyped preconceptions. There are words like 'sick', 'bent' and
'neurotic' for destroying the credence of gay people. But there are no positive
words. The ideological intent of our language makes it very clear that the
generation of words and meanings is, at the moment, in the hands of the enemy.
And that so many gay people pretend to be straight, and call each other 'butch
dykes' or 'screaming queens’ only makes that fact the more real.
The verbal attack on men and
women, who do not behave as they are supposed to, reflects the ideology of
masculine superiority. A man who behaves like a woman is seen as losing
something, and a woman who behaves like a man is put down for threatening men's
environment of their privileges.
EMPLOYMENT
(All of this was legislated -- as a
later extension of the civil rights laws of 1964 ) If our upbringing so often produces
guilt and shame, the experience of an adult gay person is oppressive in every
aspect. In their work situation, gay people face the ordeal of spending up to
fifty years of their lives confronted with the anti-homosexual hostility of
their fellow employees.
A direct consequence of the fact
that virtually all employers are highly privileged heterosexual men, is that there are some fields of work which are closed
to gay people, and others which they feel some compulsion to enter. A result of
this control for gay women is that they are perceived as a threat in the man's
world. They have none of the sexual ties of dependence to men, which make most
women accept men as their 'superiors'. They are less likely to have the bind of
children, and so there is nothing to stop them showing that they are as capable
as any man, and thus deflating the man's ego, and exposing the myth that only
men can cope with important jobs.
We are excluded from many jobs
in high places where being married is the respectable guarantee, but being
homosexual apparently makes us unstable, unreliable security risks. Neither,
for example, are we allowed the job of teaching children, because we are all
reckoned to be compulsive, child molesting maniacs.
There are thousands of examples
of people having lost their jobs due to it becoming known that they were gay,
though employers usually contrive all manner of spurious reasons.
There occurs, on the other hand,
in certain jobs, such a concentration of gay people as to make an occupational
ghetto. This happens, for women, in the forces, ambulance driving, and other
uniformed occupations: and for men, in the fashion, entertainment and
theatrical professions, all cases where the roles of 'man' and 'woman' can
perhaps be undermined or overlooked [note: last phrase unclear in copy used for
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THE LAW
(In this area of
local laws they have not had a grand rollback of laws as they have desired – as
elected officials have not seen things their way except in the most liberal
cities and counties.) If
you live in
The 1967 Sexual Offences Act
gave a limited license to adult gay men. Common law however can restrict us
from talking about and publicising both male and
female homosexuality by classing it as 'immoral'. Beyond this there are a whole
series of specific minor offences. Although 'the act' is not illegal, asking
someone to go to bed with you can be classed as 'importuning for an immoral
act', and kissing in public is classed as 'public indecency'
Even if you do not get into
trouble, you will find yourself hampered by the application of the law in your
efforts to set up home together, to raise children, and to express your love as
freely as straight people may do.
The practice of the police in
'enforcing' the law makes sure that cottagers and cruisers will be zealously
hunted, while queer-bashers may be apprehended, half-heartedly after the event.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE
(Here they have
gained police and judicial protections) On 25 September 1969 a man walked onto Wimbledon Common. We
know the common to be a popular cruising ground, and believe the man to have
been one of our gay brothers. Whether or not this is the case, the man was set
upon by a group of youths from a nearby housing estate, and literally battered
to death with clubs and boots. Afterwards, a boy from the same estate said:
'When you're hitting a queer, you don't think you're doing wrong. You think
you're doing good. If you want money off a queer, you
can get it off him-there's nothing to be scared of from the law, cause you know
they won't go to the law'. (Sunday Times, 7/21/1971).
Since that time, another man has
been similarly murdered on Hampstead Heath. But murder is only the most extreme
form of violence to which we are exposed, not having the effective rights of
protection. Most frequently we are 'rolled' for our money, or just beaten up:
and this happens to butch looking women in some districts.
PSYCHIATRY
(In this field
they have only had partial success as people can be and are still being treated
for Homosexuality and other errant behaviors) One way of oppressing people and preventing them getting
too angry about it is to convince them, and everyone else, that they are sick.
There has hence arisen a body of psychiatric 'theory' and 'therapy' to deal
with the 'problems' and 'treatment' of homosexuality.
Bearing in mind what we have so
far described, it is quite understandable that gay people get depressed and
paranoid; but it is also, of course, part of the scheme that gay people should
retreat to psychiatrists in times of troubles.
Operating as they do on the
basis of social convention and prejudice, NOT scientific truth, mainstream
psychiatrists accept society's prevailing view that the male and female sex
roles are 'good' and 'normal', and try to adjust people to them. If that fails,
patients are told to 'accept themselves' as 'deviant'. For the psychiatrist to
state that homosexuality was perfectly valid and satisfying, and that the
hang-up was society's inability to accept that fact,
would result in the loss of a large proportion of his patients.
Psychiatric 'treatment' can take
the form either of mindbending 'psychotherapy',
or of aversion therapy which operates on the crude conditioning theory that if
you hit a person hard enough, he'll do what you want. Another form of 'therapy'
is chemically induced castration, and there is a further form of 'treatment'
which consists in erasing part of the brain, with the intent (usually
successful) of making the subject an asexual vegetable.
This 'therapy' is not the source
of the psychiatrist's power, however. Their social power stems from the facile
and dangerous arguments by which they contrive to justify the prejudice that
homosexuality is bad or unfortunate, and to mount this fundamental attack upon
our right to do as we think best. In this respect, there is little difference
between the psychiatrist who says: 'From statistics we can show that
homosexuality is connected with madness', and the one
who says: 'Homosexuality is unfortunate because it is socially rejected'. The
former is a dangerous idiot-he cannot see that it is society which drives gay
people mad. The second is a pig because he does see this, but sides consciously
with the oppressors.
That psychiatrists command such
credence and such income is surprising if we remember the hysterical
disagreements of theory and practice in their field, and the fact that in
formulating their opinions, they rarely consult gay people. In fact, so far as
is possible, they avoid talking to them at all, because they know that such
confrontation would wreck their theories.
SELF-OPPRESSION
(We will
translate this as though Homosexuals call themselves “ gay” they are in fact
the most miserable people on earth. They have the highest suicide rates
statistically, they hate themselves, recent articles indicate they are seeking
unprotected sex with gays infected with aids and HIV to add a thrill to a
lifestyle that they so hate and loathe. –
In an article we discuss extensively being created in God’s image and
likeness and having God’s very breath in us that speaks to unregenerate men
concerning their sin and righteousness and the judgment. John the apostle
declares this, in that the light has shined unto every man born in this world –
so that these men and women are tormented by the voice of God within them which
they cannot destroy or remove from their ear.) The ultimate success of all forms of
oppression is our self-oppression. Self-oppression is achieved when the gay person has adopted and
internalized straight people's definition of what is good and bad. (They do not know the half of
it.) Self-oppression is saying: 'When you come
down to it, we are abnormal'. Or doing what you most need and want to do, but with a sense of shame and loathing, or in a state of
disassociation, pretending it isn't happening; cruising or cottaging
not because you enjoy it, but because you're afraid of anything less anonymous.
Self-oppression is saying: 'I accept what I am', and
meaning: 'I accept that what I am is second-best and rather pathetic'.
Self-oppression is any other kind of apology: 'We've been living together for
ten years and all our married friends know about us and think we're just the
same as them'. Why? You're not.
Self-oppression is the dolly
lesbian who says: 'I can't stand those butch types who look like truck
drivers'; the virile gay man who shakes his head at the thought of 'those
pathetic queens'. This is self-oppression because it's just another way of
saying: 'I'm a nice normal gay. Just like an attractive heterosexual'.
The ultimate in self-oppression
is to avoid confronting straight society, and thereby provoking further
hostility: Self-oppression is saying, and believing: 'I am not oppressed'.
WHY we're oppressed
Gay people are oppressed. As
we've just shown, we face the prejudice, hostility and
violence of straight society, and the opportunities open to us in work and
leisure are restricted, compared with those of straight people. Shouldn't we demand reforms
that will give us tolerance and equality? certainly we
should-in a liberal-democratic society, legal equality and protection from
attack are the very least we should ask for. They are our civil rights. (And under civil rights they freighted all this in – right under
the nose of churches and church leaders of the day. And without church support they would not
have been granted minority status and being made super citizens with rights and
privileges above all regular citizens.)
But gay liberation
does not just mean reforms. It means a revolutionary change in our whole
society. Is this really
necessary? Isn't it hard enough for us to win reforms within the present
society, and how will we engage (how will we get the straights and church people to give us these
rights?) the support of
straight people if we get ourselves branded as revolutionaries?
Reforms may makes
things better for a while; changes in the law can make straight people a little
less hostile, a little more tolerant-but reform cannot change the deep-down
attitude of straight people that homosexuality is at best inferior to their own way of
life, at worst a sickening perversion. It will take more than reforms to change this attitude, because it is rooted in our society's
most basic institution-the Patriarchal Family.
We've all been brought up to
believe that the family is the source of our happiness and comfort. (What a novel thought – Even
the church is losing sight of this altogether today)
But look at the family more closely. Within the small family unit, in
which the
dominant man and submissive woman
bring up their
children in their own image,
(the Church
has all but lost this today –this now is part of what the church must contend
for, which was once delivered unto the saints.) all our attitudes towards sexuality are
learned at a very early age. (The reason they seek to reach out and pervert younger and younger
children. [Kindergarten Preschool and Day care are the goals of these liberal
umbrella groups] for despite all their best efforts conservative and clean and
sober kids are still the great majority of what come out of high schools
today.) Almost before we
can talk, certainly before we can think for ourselves, we are taught that there
are certain attributes that are 'feminine' and other that are 'masculine', and
that they are God-given and unchangeable. Beliefs learned so young are very
hard to change; but in fact these are false beliefs. (This even failed with a child
of liberal socialist parents that had his penis cut off and was raised as a
girl in dresses and with dolls, he grew up three or so years ago, hating his
parents and has since gotten married. Also in feminism for the last 2-3 years
they openly admit they have utterly failed in their goals as women and want
babies and families and are in increasing numbers abandoning the corporate work
place for family life.) What we are taught about the differences
between man and woman is propaganda, not truth. (This is a case of a person
pushing its own psychosis on others
The truth is that there are no
proven systematic differences between male and female, (Time magazine has now
published several articles scientifically stating internal and mental
differences between men and women – the media is rife with articles on all the
studies and data that has been amassed on this question.) apart from the obvious biological ones. Male
and female genitals and reproductive systems are different, and so are certain
other physical characteristics, but all differences of temperament, aptitudes
and so on, are the result of upbringing and social pressures. They are not
inborn.
Human beings could be much more
various than our constricted patterns of 'masculine' and 'feminine' permit-we
should be free to develop with greater individuality. But as things are at
present, there are only these two stereotyped roles into which everyone is
supposed to fit, and most people-including gay people too-are apt to be alarmed
when they hear these stereotypes or gender roles attacked, fearing that
children 'won't know how to grow up if they have no one to identify with', or
that 'everyone will be the same', i.e. that there will be either utter chaos or
total conformity. There would in fact be a greater variety of models and more
freedom for experimentation, but there is no reason to suppose this will lead
to chaos. (We
also mention that all attempts to prove gayness is in the genes rather than
being a learned behavior have to date come up dry – because of political
correctness the source of gay behavior is ignored which is childhood homosexual
rape and Homosexual incest by family and relatives on small children and in
most cases these acts occur during childcare, sleepovers, or events that are
unsupervised by the child’s mother and father.)
By our very existence as gay
people, we challenge these roles. it can easily be seen that homosexuals don't
fit into the stereotypes of masculine and feminine, and this is one of the main
reasons why we become the object of suspicion, since everyone is taught that
these and only these two roles are appropriate.
Our entire society
is built around the patriarchal family and its enshrinement of these masculine
and feminine roles. (Here gay people recognize society is built on households with
patriarchal families and as said before submitted wives – we ask again how is
it that the church, bible believing churches and spirit filled churches do not
so plainly see this. So would respond here oh but they do, then why then is not
the house and the husband extolled as the cornerstone for the church [And here
we do not diminish Christ for he is elsewhere declared as the capstone] What we
are getting at is the church household that is preached in every way shape and
form is matriarchal --
which is in conflict to said doctrinal stance where it is still preached on
occasion. ) Religion,
popular morality art, literature and sport all reinforce these stereotypes. In
other words, this society is a sexist society,
(Here they
redefine this word to make it say what they want it to mean rather than what it
actually means) in which
one's biological sex determines almost all of what one does and how one does
it; a situation in which men are privileged, and women are mere adjuncts of men
and objects for their use, both sexually and otherwise.
Since all children are taught so
young that boys should be aggressive and adventurous, girls passive and pliant,
most children do tend to behave in these ways as they get older, and to believe
that other people should do so too. (Repeat the data and studies are now out and this self-serving
rhetoric is now only that.)
So sexism does not just oppose
gay people, but all women as
well. It is
assumed that because women bear children they should and must rear them, and be
simultaneously excluded from all other spheres of achievement. (One can see how women in
the1970’s and the church so easily bought into these arguments and swallowed
them hook line and sinker –but after 30 something years – they finally saw
through all of this garbage – And since then in increasing numbers have voted
with their feet against living someone else’s dreams and aspirations for them – In the church the sheep still
in large numbers live the dreams and desires of their pastors and
ministries -- and have yet to vote with
their feet and come into the dreams and desires that God has for them and their
households individually.)
However, as the indoctrination
of the small child with these attitudes is not always entirely successful (As there always have been
people that fall into great sin beginning with Eve and then after the fall
Cain, and Judas despite all that he saw and heard from Christ’s mouth, and the
Apostles and ministries that John the apostles declares they went out from us
but they were not of us – for if they had been of us then they would have
continued in our teachings. Paul calls this the mystery of iniquity.) the ideas taken in by the young child almost unconsciously must
be reinforced in the older child and teenager by a consciously expressed male
chauvinism: the
ideological expression of masculine superiority. (Here I can only address the flaws in the church, this attitude of
male superiority was not taught by Christ –Rather Christ taught that his
disciples were to be the servant -- this has been set on its head
throughout church history.) Male chauvinism is not hatred of women, but male
chauvinists accept women only on the basis that they are in fact lesser beings. (Gotta love this, because it is take
straight out of the Talmud and Koran, but not from the bible) It is an expression of male
power (Rulership
on the other hand is biblical : And he shall rule over
thee ) and male privilege, (I am not aware of all this
male only privilege in the bible.)
and while it's quite possible for a gay man to be a male chauvinist, his very
existence does also challenge male chauvinism in so far as he rejects his male
supremacist role over women, and perhaps (The author admits here he is unsure of this one.
– Gays flat out do not reject being male or masculine or else they would not
have sex. as such acts would betray their being
neuters. Neither do gays in their pursuit
of not being male or masculine seek castration. So also in the gay community
they have masculine and feminine gays called in their own terms pitchers and
catchers. Sexual and physical abuse between these are rampant but due to
political correctness actual figures on this violence and crimes are not
publicly disseminated) particularly
if he rejects 'masculine' qualities.
It is because of
the patriarchal family that reforms are not enough. Freedom for gay people will never be permanently
won until everyone is freed from sexist role-playing and the straightjacket of
sexist rules about our sexuality. And we will not be freed from these so long
as each succeeding generation is brought up in the same old sexist way in the
Patriarchal family.
But why can't we just change the
way in which children are brought up without attempting to transform the whole
fabric of society? (So the writer declares we much change the entire fabric of society
to give way to our utopian society. --
We the gays must oppress all straight society who are the many (85 –90%) so that we the few
(10-15%) as homosexual overlords will have them conform and cater themselves to
our lifestyle.)
Because sexism (Can we call this Gay
Liberation Manifesto sexist elitism and oppressive) is not just an accident-it is an essential part of our
present society, (No more than we can call Sodom and Gomorrah an accident in the Old
Testament) and cannot be changed without the whole
society changing with it. (Without them passing laws and legislation and submitting
themselves to political correctness) In the first
place, our society is dominated at every level by men, who have an
interest in preserving the status quo; secondly, the present system of
workplace and production depends on the existence of the patriarchal family.
Conservative sociologists have pointed out that the small family unit of two
parents and their children is essential in our contemporary advanced industrial
family where work is
minutely subdivided and highly regulated-in other words, for the majority very
boring. A man would not work at the assembly line if he had no wife and
family to support; he would not give himself fully to his work without the
supportive and reassuring little group ready to follow him about and gear
itself to his needs, to put up with his ill temper when he is frustrated or put
down by the boss at work. (We see here more and more of all the things that Christians and
church leaders had to support change for. – and we will say here that the guilt
of Christians and churches supporting all these things thought either
supporting congressmen and legislation for these things directly or by ignoring
these things altogether and letting them pass through gives them as much blame
before God as the people who wrote these things.)
Were it not also
for the captive wife,
educated by advertising and everything she reads into believing (Here these homosexuals betray
themselves as hate filled elitists, declaring that straight women are idiots
and utterly stupid) that
she needs ever more new goodies for the home, for her own beautification and
for the children’s well-being, our economic system could not function properly,
depending as it does on people buying far more manufactured goods than they
need. The
housewife, obsessed with the ownership of as many material goods as possible, (This statement is by their own terms utterly elitist and sexist
and prejudiced, suggesting that all that a woman has to do is see something on
a TV and she has to run out to buy it.
To begin with most women in the
The ethic and ideology of our
culture has been conveniently summed up by the enemy. (The enemy being: God, The bible, The patriarchal household, and The Church. Again they belay
their lies that they have given up any of their maleness or masculinity for
these homosexuals state here that they seek out to dominate their enemies. In
1975 I came to know a young Jewish man named Jay from
We agree with his description of
our society and its values-but we reach a different conclusion. We (Socialist and communist) gay men and women do deny
these values of our civilization. We believe that the society
Dr. Brown describes is an
evil society. (The writer is stating here that in his twisted view a society of
husbands loving their wives and their raising a family of loved children is
evil.) We believe that
work in an advanced industrial society could be organised
on more humane lines, with each job more varied and more pleasurable, and that the way society is at present
organized operates in the interests of a small ruling group of straight men (And they are proposing that an infinitesimal group of militant
homosexual men take their place and become the ones) who claim most of the status and money,
and not in the interests of the people as a whole. We also believe that our
economic resources (Read this as what we have come to know as the worldwide Green
Party platform. This may help to explain some the linkage between all these
liberal umbrella groups. For much of them are one and the same.) could be used
in a much more valuable and constructive way than they are at the moment-but
that will not happen until the present pattern of male dominance in our society
changes too.
That is why any reforms we might
painfully exact from our rulers would only be fragile and vulnerable; that is
why we, along with the women's movement, must fight for something more than
reform. We must aim at the abolition of the family, so that the sexist, male
supremacist system can no longer be nurtured there.
WE CAN DO IT
Yet although this struggle will
be hard, and our victories not easily won, we are not in fact being idealistic to aim at
abolishing the family and the cultural distinctions between men and women. True, these have been with us throughout
history, yet humanity is at last in a position where we can progress beyond
this.
Only reactionaries and
conservatives believe in the idea of 'natural man'. Just what is so different
in human beings from the rest of the animal kingdom is their 'unnaturalness'.
Civilization is in fact our evolution away from the limitations of the natural
environment and towards its ever more complex control. It is not 'natural' to
travel in planes. It is not 'natural' to take medicines and perform operations.
Clothing and shoes do not grow on trees. Animals do not cook their food. This
evolution is made possible by the development of technology-i.e.
all those tools and skills which help us to control the natural environment. (More stuff that later turned
up in the militant environmental movement. – one can use this to follow the
trail to everywhere these people are hiding themselves in society today)
We have now reached a stage at
which the human body itself, and even the reproduction of the species, is being 'unnaturally' interfered with (i.e. improved) by
technology. Reproduction used to be left completely to the uncontrolled
biological processes inherited from our animal ancestors, but modern science,
by drastically lowering infant mortality, has made it unnecessary for women to
have more than two or three babies, (Population limitation)
while
contraceptives have made possible the conscious control of pregnancy and the
freeing of sexuality from reproduction. (Contraception, abortion)
Today, further advances are on the point of making it possible for women to be
completely liberated from their biology by means of the development of
artificial wombs. Women need no longer by burdened with the production of
children as their main task in life. and need be still
less in the future (This was one of their biggest dreams – the elimination of men from
sex altogether. – And don’t think a concerted effort was made towards this goal. –
How much sci-fi has
promoted and lauded this very thing? Sci-fi has been used to
promote many causes, and create an outcry for many things over the last 40
years. But this was another total dry hole. Let me also say here that a lot of
things were created towards the preparation of this, not the least which was
sperm banks and female egg harvesting.)
The present gender-role system
of 'masculine' and 'feminine' is based on the way that reproduction was originally organized. (By God!!!) Men's freedom from the prolonged physical burden of bearing children
gave them a privileged position (Or rather the position to get food by the sweat of their brow to
feed yonr wife and to keep a roof over yonr wife’s head that she might bear healthy offspring) which was then reinforced by an ideology
of male superiority. (No, this was reinforced by the fall of man) But technology has now advanced to a
stage at which the gender-role system is no longer necessary. (No, this gender role is
necessary to perpetuate, after birth, something called the household –a strange
manifestation of a stable society, that builds love, unity, trust and
protection to all those who partake of it.)
However, social evolution does
not automatically take place with the steady advance of technology, The gender-role system and the family unit built around it
will not disappear just because they have ceased to be necessary. The sexist
culture gives straight men privileges, which, like those of any privileged
class, will not be surrendered without a struggle, so that all of us who are
oppressed by this culture, must band together to fight it. The end of the sexist culture
and of the family will benefit all women, (Here The writer is addressing the culture of divorce
which to their delight not only engulfed the house of the unsaved in western
society, but unexpectedly jumped the firewall, a firewall that should have been
in place between the church and the world but wasn’t. In that day in the early 1980’s these
militant socialist homosexuals and their lesbian counterparts must have danced
in the streets and cried aloud in joyous contempt for the better part of a
year.) and gay people. We must work together with women, since their
oppression is our oppression, and by working together we can advance the day of
our common liberation.
A NEW LIFE-STYLE
In the final section we
shall outline some of the practical steps gay liberation will take to make this
revolution. But
linked with this struggle to change society there is an important aspect of gay
liberation that we can begin to build here and now- a NEW, LIBERATED LIFE-STYLE
which will anticipate, as far as possible, the free society of the future.
Gay shows the way. In some ways
we are already more advanced than straight people. We are already outside the
family (The
wolf dressed in feminist clothes) and
we have already, in part at least, rejected the 'masculine' or 'feminine' roles
society has designed for us. In a society dominated by the sexist culture it is
very difficult, if not impossible, for heterosexual men and women to escape
their rigid gender-role structuring and the roles of oppressor and oppressed.
But gay men don't need to oppress women in order to fulfill their own
psycho-sexual needs, and gay women don't have to relate sexually to the male
oppressor, so that at this moment in time, the freest and most equal
relationships are most likely to be between homosexuals.
But because the sexist culture
has oppressed us and distorted our lives too, this is not always achieved. In
our mistaken, placating efforts to be accepted and tolerated, we've too often
submitted to the pressures to conform to the straightjacket of society's rules
and hang ups about sex.
Particularly oppressive aspects
of gay society are the Youth Cult, Butch and Femme role-playing, and Compulsive
Monogamy. (This
would be called today the issue of Gay Marriage in 1971-72 they in no way
envisioned the need for gay marriage and in this manifesto they describe a life
style of dogs in heat moving from one mate to another as being satisfactory –
so we see in this that the gay marriage issue is little more than a legal
maneuver to change law to let gay couples or in reality “stated gay couples”
having removed from them the being single tax penalty and the being single
health care penalty to add to the perks of “Being Gay” probably in hopes that
singles, when the door is flung open, will lie and take advantage of these
things in order to give the homosexual community more political clout.)
THE YOUTH
CULT. Straight women
are the most exposed in our society to the commercially manipulated (Again this is a declaration
of this Homosexual’s belief that straight women are idiots and the more stupid
people on earth) cult of
youth and 'beauty'- i.e. the conformity to an ideal of 'sexiness' and 'femininity' (This is funny stuff. The idea that these non-male and non-masculine men are worried or
troubled by the sexiness or femininity of straight women.) imposed from without, not chosen by women themselves. Women
are encouraged to look into the mirror and love themselves because an
obsession with clothes and cosmetics dulls their appreciation of where they're
really at . . . until it's too late. (Oh the horror! Oh the pain and agony!! – So
this army of militant non-male and non-masculine homosexual men are now going
to rush in and save all the straight women from this fate worse than
death.—Note here that there has not been a single word of this army of militant
non-male and non-masculine homosexual men rushing to and save their Youth Cult,
Butch lesbian sisters. I perceive somewhat of an attraction problem here. And
let me remark that over the past three decades in all cases the homosexual men
I have encountered in the work place, in businesses, and in parks and malls
etc., have in my sight universally hung out with young pretty straight women.
And at my questioning these homosexual men get off on the attention and
interaction they receive from these women – they are having emotional relations
with them. Samson speaks of these emotional relations between his wife and the
men of her village as they are plowing his wife -- having adultery with his
wife. Changing the subject a little Christian women and those in particular who
feel there are unequally yoked plow with other husbands or singles all the time
in the name of fellowshipping in the Lord and in so doing laugh and joke and
banter – as they never do with their unequally yoked partner instead giving
them their personal ire. God is not fooled by this behavior, and He is not
taken by all the prayer meetings bible studies and church services these plow
women or plow men attend. This is what Christ meant by No man that looketh back from plowing is worthy of the kingdom.)
The sight of an old woman bedizened with
layers of make-up, her hair tortured into artificial turrets, provokes ridicule
on all sides.(Here
again we see this army of militant non-male and non-masculine homosexual men
seeing and noticing things about even elderly straight women that they want to
come to rush and defend. This emerging pattern attests to the true intent of
these militant homosexuals that they are actually in competition with straight
men for straight women.)
Yet this grotesque denial of physical aging is merely the logical conclusion to
the life of a woman who has been taught that her value lies primarily in her
degree of sexual attractiveness. (This is actually a statement that Homosexual men would be more
faithful lovers because they are not into outward beauty, as straight men
are. And how they
would never put a woman through all of the time and waste of money to do such
things. – Women in many cases more for themselves than for their husband
seek to look good. And so they preen,
primp, and pretty themselves, and nowhere is this more
apparent than prior to a church service as these women enter one by one and oh
and ah about each others hair and clothes.)
Gay women, like straight men,
are rather less into the compulsive search for youth, perhaps because part of
their rebellion has been the rejection of themselves as sex objects-like men
they see themselves as people; as subjects rather than objects. (And this is why gay men are
not attracted to them.)
But gay men are very apt to fall victim to the cult of youth (Thus the attraction to
“pretty straight women” and other “pretty boys”) -those sexual parades in the 'glamorous' meat-rack bars of
BUTCH AND
FEMME. (We will forgo any comment on
this as this has already been addressed in many ways) Many gay men and women needlessly
restrict their lives by compulsive role playing. They may restrict their own
sexual behaviour by feeling that they must always
take either a butch or a femme role, and worse, these roles are transposed to
make even more distorting patterns in general social relationships. We gay men
and women are outside the gender-role system anyway, and therefore it isn't
surprising if some of us -of either sex-are more 'masculine' and others more
'feminine'. There is nothing wrong with this. What is bad is when gay people
try to impose on themselves and on one another the masculine and feminine
stereotypes of straight society, the butch seeking to expand his ego by
dominating his/her partner's life and freedom, and the femme seeking protection
by submitting to the butch. Butch really is bad-the oppression of others is an
essential part of the masculine gender role. We must make gay men and women who
lay claim to the privileges of straight males understand what they are doing;
and those gay men and women who are caught up in the femme role must realise, as straight women increasingly do, that any
security this brings is more than offset by their loss of freedom
COMPULSIVE
MONOGAMY. We do not
deny that it is as possible for gay couples as for some straight couples to
live happily and constructively together. We question however as an ideal, the
finding and settling down eternally with one 'right' partner. This is the
blueprint of the straight world, which gay people have taken over. It is
inevitably a parody, since they haven't even the justification of straight
couples-the need to provide a stable environment for their children (though in
any case we believe that the suffocating small family unit is by no means the
best atmosphere for bringing up children.
Monogamy is usually based on
ownership-the woman sells her services to the man in return for security for
herself and her children-and is entirely bound up in the man's idea of property
furthermore in our society the monogamous couple, with or without children, is
an isolated, shut-in, up-tight unit, suspicious of and hostile to outsiders. (Other than the “selling her services” barb this is exactly what
these homosexual men crave and can not find in their wandering vagabond
relationships. And as stated above they are angry and frustrated because their
beauty fades and as they become older and uglier they end up with nothing –no
wife, no closeness, no security and no offspring.) And though we don't lay down rules or
tell gay people how they should behave in bed or in their relationships, we do
want them to question society's blueprint for the couple. The blueprint says 'we two
against the world', (The center of the bible is
the household which is comprised of husband, wife and children and all whom the
Lord sends to be a part of that household. [This is the tabernacle], And the center of the household is the husband and wife [And
this is the
It is especially important for
gay people to stop copying straight-we are the ones who have the best
opportunities to create a new lifestyle and if we don't, no one else will.
Also, we need one another more than straight people do, because we are equals
suffering under an insidious oppression from a society too primitive to come to
terms with the freedom we represent. Singly, or isolated in couples, we are
weak-the way society wants us to be. Society cannot put us down so easily if we
fuse together. We have to get together, understand one another, live together.
Two ways we can do this are by
developing consciousness-raising groups and gay communes.
Our gay communes and collectives
must not be mere convenient living arrangements or worse, just extensions of
the gay ghetto. (Here we finally discover what
the writer’s definition of a homosexual utopia is.) They must be a focus of
consciousness-raising lie, raising or increasing our awareness of our real
oppression} and of gay liberation activity, a new focal point for members of
the gay community. It won't be easy,
because this
society is hostile to communal living.
And besides the
practical hang-ups of finding money and a place large enough for a collective
to live in, there are
our own personal hang-ups: we have to change our attitudes to our personal
property, to our lovers, to our day-to-day priorities in work and leisure, even
to our need for privacy.
But victory will come. If we're
convinced of the importance of the new life-style, we can be strong and we can
win through.
AIMS (One more long yawn on them wanting to destroy all family, all
paternal marriage, the bible, God, Churches, and believers, so they can get all
the straight women, along with their neighborhood collectives.)
The long-term goal of Gay
Liberation, which inevitably brings us into conflict with the institutionalised sexism of this society, is to rid society
of the gender-role system, which is at the root of our oppression. This can
only be achieved by eliminating the social pressures on men and women to
conform to narrowly defined gender roles. It is particularly important that
children and young people be encouraged (To be Homosexuals – so the collective will remain full, because
if the influx ceases or decreases there will be trouble in utopia.) to develop their own talents and
interests and to express their own individuality rather than act out
stereotyped parts alien to their nature. (This is happening at Junior High School and High
School levels – the push is to get this in grade school as the success rate is
not at all what they have hoped.)
As we cannot carry out this
revolutionary change alone,
and as the abolition of gender rotes is also a necessary condition of women's
liberation, we will work to form a strategic alliance with the women's
liberation movement, aiming to develop our ideas and our practice in close
inter-relation. In order to build this alliance, the brothers in gay liberation
will have to be prepared to sacrifice that degree of male chauvinism and male
privilege that they still all possess.
To achieve our long term goal
will take many years, perhaps decades. But attitudes to the appropriate place
of men and women in our society are changing rapidly, particularly the belief
in the subordinate place for women. Modern conditions are placing increasing
strain on the small nuclear family containing one adult male and one adult
female with narrowly defined roles and bound together for life.
The way forward
FREE OUR HEADS
The starting point of our
liberation must be to rid ourselves of the oppression which lies in the head of
every one of us. This means freeing our heads from self oppression and male
chauvinism, and no longer organizing our lives according to the patterns with
which we are indoctrinated by straight society. It means that we must root out
the idea that homosexuality is bad, sick or immoral, and develop a gay pride.
In order to survive, most of us have either knuckled under to pretend that no
oppression exists, and the result of this has been further to distort our
heads. Within gay liberation, a number of consciousness-raising groups have
already developed, in which we try to understand our oppression and learn new ways
of thinking and behaving. The aim is to step outside the experience permitted
by straight society, and to learn to love and trust one another. This is the
precondition for acting and struggling together.
By freeing our heads we get the
confidence to come out publicly and proudly as gay people, and to win over our
gay brothers and sisters to the ideas of gay liberation.
CAMPAIGN Before
we can create the new society of the future, we have to defend our interests as
gay people here and now against all forms of oppression and victimization. We
have therefore drawn up the following list of immediate demands.
* that
all discrimination against gay people, male and female, by the law, by
employers, and by society at large, should end. * that
all people who feel attracted to a member of their own sex be taught that such
feelings are perfectly valid. * that sex education in
schools stop being exclusively heterosexual. * that psychiatrists stop treating
homosexuality as though it were a sickness, thereby giving gay people senseless
guilt complexes. * that gay people be as legally free to contact other gay
people, though newspaper ads, on the streets and by any other means they may
want as are heterosexuals, and that police harassment should cease right now. *
that employers should no longer be allowed to
discriminate against anyone on account of their sexual preferences. * that the age of consent for gay males be reduced to the same
as for straight. * that gay people be free to hold
hands and kiss in public, as are heterosexuals.
Those who believe in gay
liberation need to support actively their local gay group. With the rapid
spread of the ideas of gay liberation, it is inevitable that many members of
such groups have only partially come to terms with their homosexuality. The
degree of self-oppression is often such that it is difficult to respect
individuals in the group, and activists frequently feel tempted to despair. But
if we are to succeed in transforming our society we must persuade others of the
merits of our ideas, and there is no way we can achieve this if we cannot even
persuade those most affected by our oppression to join us in fighting for
justice.
We do not intend to ask for
anything. We intend to stand firm and assert our basic rights. If this involves
violence, it will not be we who initiate this, but those who attempt to stand
in our way to freedom.
This manifesto was originally
produced collectively by the Manifesto Group of GLF. We recognize that it
leaves many questions unanswered and open-ended but hope it will lead to the
furtherance of a scientific analysis of sexism and our oppression as gay
people.
Printed by the
Russell Press Ltd.