The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Prose - 100. T.P.E. Ryan "the disease of being straight"

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25 minutes ago, AC Benus said:

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And what an entertaining read it was! Thank you for sharing this gem with us. 

Thanks for sharing this AC!  I laughed my way thru the entire article and wished there was a lot more.  I was in my early 20's when this was written.  Gay magazines for serious readers were just starting then.  I wonder if some more articles like this have survived over the last 50 years.

On 7/24/2023 at 7:09 PM, Parker Owens said:

And what an entertaining read it was! Thank you for sharing this gem with us. 

Thank you, Parker. I have another item to post from the same source

On 7/24/2023 at 10:54 PM, raven1 said:

Thanks for sharing this AC!  I laughed my way thru the entire article and wished there was a lot more.  I was in my early 20's when this was written.  Gay magazines for serious readers were just starting then.  I wonder if some more articles like this have survived over the last 50 years.

Thanks, Terry. A lot appeared in print, and no doubt still survives in quantity. Newsprint magazines for a Queer audience started appearing 18 months to 2 years prior to Stonewall. In a way, they gave voice to a youth community in cities like New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco that was not turned on by the appeasinist bent of the Homophile Movement. These new rags explored what a liberated Gay consciousness would look like.

Although humble and meant to be discarded in a week or two, they are almost the foundation on which Stonewall and the Gay Rights Movement were conceived. A press for ourselves, by ourselves. 

Thanks again    

What may be lost on modern readers -- praise the Lord! -- is how this satire on straights being able to choose a more suitable 'lifestyle' reads EXACTLY like what sex-crazed Freudians were writing about Gay people at the time. 

I have the 1938 edition of the American psychiatric standards manual and can tell you it actually says same-sex love is a disease "caused" by a failure of sissy-men to properly "choose" their mother's lactating breasts as their first "sex object" while babies. That is not made up. That was what "professionals" were taught at the time, totally ignoring the glaring irony that every baby girl would thus become a Lesbian if they had "chosen" the "healthy" object of their mother's nursing mammary glands as well. (You can't make this shit up!!!!) So, with this level of clown-thought circulating, it's no wonder Gay men and women suffered under these quack mindsets. Chemical castration, electro torture, lobotomy were the standard "treatments" any same-sex loving person could expect from psychiatric "care" not so very long ago. Lest we forget. 

So when the author above speaks of the twisted lust in the heart of the depraved straight man to thrust his way back into the womb during sex, and is thus "stuck" in underdevelopment as a emotional infant, it reads EXACTLY like the sort of thing being printed about Gay folks. The author is brilliant in creating a theory that is every bit as believable as what the oppressors were saying about same-sex love being a phase that could be overcome by simply trying hard enough.