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“A “successful” relationship is best defined not as one that sustains erotic intensity but rather one that helps to soften the brute fact that we’re alone in this world—and will leave it.”

Book:Has the Gay Movement Failed?

Source: Has the Gay Movement Failed?

“Humanitarian concerns are always dismissed as impractical, at least initially. Humanitarian concerns, however, aren’t high on the national gay movement’s list of priorities; if they were, we’d hear a lot more from them than we do about the inequities that derive from race, class, and gender.”

Race Class Gender Humanitarian

Book:Has the Gay Movement Failed?

Source: Has the Gay Movement Failed?

“Gay men know a lot more about sexual responsiveness, and the erotic potential of their bodies, particularly of their nipples and assholes, than straight men.”

Gay Erotic Nipples Assholes

Book:Has the Gay Movement Failed?

Source: Has the Gay Movement Failed?

“Anal sex is in fact characteristically the interaction of two active partners, not one aggressor and one passive recipient of aggression. No anal sex worth a candle involves a limp, passive, nearly comatose “victim”; both participants write the script, both actively orchestrate the scene, both gyrate their bodies with interactive abandon. Which fact, if acknowledged, would, as it were, make the traditional-minded heterosexual male’s blood run cold (or, perhaps put more appropriately, scare the shit out of him).”

Book:Has the Gay Movement Failed?

Source: Has the Gay Movement Failed?

“When GLF talked about sexual liberation, the agenda often included two interlocking items rarely mentioned these days: freeing up same-sex attraction in confirmed heterosexuals and releasing heterosexual desire in those who considered themselves exclusively gay.”

Sexual Liberation

Book:Has the Gay Movement Failed?

Source: Has the Gay Movement Failed?

“In regard to gay male life specifically, a number of academic studies have concluded that we’re more emotionally expressive and sexually innovative than heterosexual men, more empathic, and more altruistic (we do volunteer work far more often than our straight male counterparts), and we’re more likely to cross racial and gender borders when forming close bonds of friendship. When part of a couple, we—and this is even more true of lesbian partnerships—avoid stereotypic gender roles and instead emphasize mutuality and shared responsibilities. Gay couples have “more relationship satisfaction” than straight couples, and when we do argue, we’re better at seeing our partner’s point of view and at using humor to deflate belligerence.”

Book:Has the Gay Movement Failed?

Source: Has the Gay Movement Failed?