| Subject: Andrew Bolt, "Gay Rights Go Wrong", Herald Sun, 4 August 2004 |
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Date Posted: Tuesday, August 03, 09:44:57pm
Andrew Bolt wrote this in the Herald Sun today. I've posted it for information and comment, not because I agree with what he says.
GAY RIGHTS GO WRONG
It's time responsible gays sent a message that the lewd mardi gras crowd are feeding dangerous misconceptions about their lifestyle
04aug04
IT'S the old lie of the homophobe, that gay men prey on boys. Homosexual, pedophile, what's the difference?
What a deep insult to so many gay men. What a licence for a bit of poofter-bashing in the park.
So how reckless of Australia's leading gay magazine, DNA, to blur that boundary between homosexuality and pedophilia by staging a gay fashion shoot at Melbourne High School, using models dressed as adolescent boys.
It is no accident that DNA chose Melbourne High for the shoot, either, and not, say, Balwyn High.
Melbourne High is well known as a boys-only school, the only one among our state schools, which should be a turn-on for the fantasists who hold DNA with one hand as they read.
And DNA gives them plenty to fantasise about: models having their sports pants pulled down to reveal their bare buttocks, or posing over a school desk to offer themselves for a spanking. The issue is now sold out -- which says something about DNA's readers.
But where are the protests from gay activists, so quick to condemn heterosexuals who accuse gays of being child molesters?
Once again we must ask: when will the gays who rightly detest the stereotyping of homosexuals as sexual predators and perverts finally make a stand against the mardi gras mafia, such as DNA's editor Andrew Creagh who so damage their cause?
It seems clear that some deceit was used to get the keys to Melbourne High for the after-hours photography. The school's acting principal said the school hired out its facilities in good faith and had no idea the fashion shoot would be crude. I doubt even Creagh would be so shameless as to claim the school would have said yes to what his photographer had in mind.
He'd have been even less likely to get through the front door if Creagh had confessed up front that DNA would print the 12-page pictorial in an issue which boasted on its cover "Backdoor for Beginners" -- a how-to guide to anal sex.
Creagh now breezily waves away the anger of the school's teachers and parents as "a storm in a teacup", and added: "School boys pull each other's pants down. It's funny".
Oh, so were your models indeed staging a boy-sex fantasy, Andrew, or do I mistake your meaning?
CREAGH'S misjudgment, to put it too kindly, may be dismissed as just what you'd expect from a peddler of soft porn, but Creagh has more status in the gay community than a responsible man -- gay or straight -- might now think healthy.
He has written the scripts for movies, including the happy-gay-families comedy Violet's Visit, which were made with your money, courtesy of the Australian Film Commission. He's also performed at Sydney's Gay Mardi Gras as a comedian, and at Adelaide's Lesbian and Gay Cultural Festival, again supported by taxpayer money and promoted, incidentally, with a boast that Creagh was "doing research on the effects of recreational drugs".
And he backs the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, signing up DNA as an official partner and writing an endorsement, published by the mardi gras organisers, in which he fondly recalls being picked up there years ago, having just jumped off the bus from Perth, by "the hottest sailor there you could imagine".
But the mardi gras has for many years now hurt the gay cause far more than it helped, portraying gay men as rampantly promiscuous, and vicious in their contempt for religion, or any of the values or inhibitions that keep families safe and strong in suburbia.
If the thunderers of the religious Right want to feed their fear that gays are barbarians who will smash anything that interferes with an animalistic urge for instant sex, they need only turn up to the mardi gras to be shocked from their Brylcreemed parting to their anti-odour insteps.
What they won't see in the mardi gras, or now in Creagh's photo-shoot with "schoolboys", is any indication that gays can be responsible fathers, conscientious officials, deep patriots, impartial judges, dutiful priests or trustworthy guardians -- as is the godfather of my children.
They are there, of course -- men such as Justice Michael Kirby, author David Malouf, commentator John Michael Howson, and SBS board member and columnist Christopher Pearson.
I'd even add Greens leader Bob Brown to that list if his party's political ideas weren't on the dangerous side of crazy.
I WOULD add, too, the names of former federal ministers, prominent broadcasters and business leaders, if it wasn't clear they consider their sexuality unnecessary for us to know -- or unhelpful, if not damaging.
Who could blame them for being discreet, when even gay "spokesmen" -- demanding every right that brings them closer to instant pleasure -- make gay men seem like sex-over-the-desk hunters of schoolboys?
We've heard too much now from the libertarians of the Gay Rights crowd. It's time to hear instead from a responsible Gay Right.
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