Saturday Musing

The Gay Press

I realize this next comment isn't insightful ("Hey, Scheske, that's never stopped you before!"), but here goes: The gay press is absolutely relentless.

I mean "press" in two senses: pressure and media. On Thursday, my son felt compelled to "unlike" the Detroit Tigers because they posted a pro-LGBT post on their Facebook site; today, I wake up to an article about Eminem's most recent unacceptable homophobic lyrics ("Little gay-looking boy / So gay I can barely say it with a straight face-looking boy / . . . 'Oy vey, that boy's gay,' that's all they say").

I don't know (i) why the Tigers felt compelled to enter a political fray like that, and (ii) why Eminem's offensive lyrics are newsworthy after twenty years.

Well, actually I do know. It's a combination of political correctness, the need to feel important, and part of the relentless gay press: full court pressure, all the time, never letting up. It's suffocating.

I, of course, have an "ideological" (wrong word, but it'll do here) horse in the race, since I'm against gay marriage, the scene of two guys kissing turns my stomach (as it does most guys who are honest enough to admit it), and I fully appreciate that what they do in private (that they want celebrated publicly through marriage) is a form of sadomasochism. I'm not exactly an unbiased observer.

I wish I could talk with a person in America who, from the start, never gave a second thought to gays one way or the other, then see what he thinks. I suspect he'd agree that the gay press is so over-the-top and shrill that it reveals a certain degree of fundamental discomfort by the advocates themselves in their position.