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AjGarciaFirstPaper 17 - 03 May 2012 - Main.AjGarcia
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_ | | | Accelerating this transformation of this pervert-fearing monster are gay marriage advocates. LGBT activists have decided that the way to achieve equality is by having the same legal entitlements that would accompany a heterosexual couple. But to become apart of the tradition of heterosexual marriage, requires the acceptance of heternormative definitions of sexuality and normalcy. It requires the gay community to reject the sexual deviancy that once defined it. Instead, we must publish pictures of lesbians in wedding gowns with their dresses held by their three kids and parents. We must ask two handsome, young gay men in tuxedos to kiss in front of city hall. We find gay marriage advocates shouting at the top of their lungs, “Look how normal gay people are!” But do we want that?! | |
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< | To be corralled and socialized into the heterosexual tradition of marriage requires that we reject the aspects of our community that once made it unique. We sacrifice our cultural identity and ask that we paint it in the bland colors of heterosexuality. Drag queens, club kids, horny queers cruising in alleys, and men giving head in the bushes and behind dumpsters must be put to the side. We must hide our leather and S&M toys and slip on tacky and boring sweater vests that declare our normalcy and fit to be herded into mainstream America. To the front goes the happy couple with three biological children, to the back goes the polyamorous triangle and the queers that don’t like their sex in missionary. | >
> | To be corralled and socialized into the heterosexual tradition of marriage requires that we reject the aspects of our community that once made it unique. We sacrifice our cultural identity and ask that we paint it in the bland colors of heterosexuality. Drag queens, club kids, horny queers cruising in alleys, and men giving head in the bushes and behind dumpsters must be put to the side. We must hide our leather and S&M toys and slip on tacky and boring sweater vests that declare our normalcy and fit to be herded into mainstream America. To the front goes the happy couple with three biological children, to the back goes the polyamorous triangle, individuals who abhor monogamy, non-traditional families, and the queers that don’t like their sex in missionary. | | |
Can We Have Our Wedding Cake and Eat it Too? | |
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< | Critics of this position might counterargue and say that gay people should have the liberty to marry the person they love, and those other elements of the queer community can be preserved. In other words, they might claim we can have our cake and eat it too. But I don’t think this is true. At the tip of the tongue when we talk about gay marriage is the desire to be just like a heterosexual couple. When gay people say they want marriage, they want the lifestyle and social capital that comes along with it. | >
> | Critics of this position might counterargue and say that gay people should have the liberty to marry the person they love, and those other elements of the queer community can be preserved. In other words, they might claim we can have our cake and eat it too. But I don’t think this is true. At the tip of the tongue when we talk about gay marriage is the desire to be just like a heterosexual couple. When gay people say they want marriage, they want the lifestyle and social capital that comes along with it. As the elderly die, the possibility of gay marriage comes closer every day, and with it the convenience of conformity that eliminates creativity and individuality. | | | While wanting to legally bind oneself to a monogamous partner “till death to you part,” may be strangely desired by the more masochistic and lemming of individuals, I don’t know what is to be gained by cliff jumping into marriage. For people that would like to live like heterosexuals in their traditional definition of a relationship, they can certainly do that without the marriage certificate. Sure they might want the benefits, but at what costs do those legal privileges come? If gay marriage was to be the central cause of the gay agenda, that would mean the queer-top priority would be the desire to be apart of a tradition that has rejected non-heterosexual definitions of sexuality and relationships. |
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