The Lavender Menace
Maloney, Stephen R.
While curbing the welfare state was often threatened, it was rarely accomplished. Just as the Heath Government's efforts yielded almost invisible results, so too, one would predict, will the...
...Mostly homosexuality begets violence and mutual abasement...
...If the services themselves become more productive, further improvement might follow...
...So too, we spot a space in a flow of moving vehicles and try to beat other drivers to it...
...In Jill Johnston's Lesbian Nation there are to be no "Jacks...
...If Dennison is right (whatever he means), than homosexuality is much worse than we have thought...
...By a process of syllogistic leapfrogging, it tries to convert the widely accepted principle that consenting adults should be allowed to engage in sexual imbecilities into a broader acceptance of any sexual practice, consensual or otherwise...
...so that they start making out much earlier, and "get bored sooner with sex in pairs...
...As the night wears on, those uglies who have not made a connection become agitated with sexual energy...
...Or this from The Second Wave (another lesbian publication): "We do not want work glorifying men, marriage, traditional women's roles, etc...
...In addition, no substantial political force appears ready to take on the task...
...First, it attempts tG marshal the widespread libertarian instincts of the American people in the service of barbaric principles...
...Citing various studies that The Alternative: An American Spectator - December 1976 13 established the psychopathology of homosexuality, Irving Bieber said they "leave us with no doubt that homosexuality is not normal...
...All through history man and woman have played sharply defined roles in their societies...
...We do need to distinguish, however, between behavior that should be prohibited and behavior that should be disapproved...
...contempt for those who find some gratification in family life," we can offer models that manifest a true gaiety of act and vision...
...Understandably, hard times make retrenchment difficult...
...Gay" replaced "homophile" which replaced "homosexual"--in much the same manner that the "dole" begat "welfare" which begat "public assistance," both examples reflecting our never-ending struggle to neutralize the odious...
...The second (and corollary) danger is the damage "Gay Liberation" is inflicting on the central institution of Western civilization: the family...
...Of all American groups homophiles are the most egregious youthworshippers...
...occasionally a couple drops outside for a quickie, to return a few moments later, looking for "fresh meat...
...Because the system involves queuing, as most forms of nonprice allocation do, many of the rules are directives for queuing behavior: observance of red lights, stop signs, and the like...
...indeed, the postwar history has largely been one of Socialists expanding programs while in office, and Tories preserving or improving them...
...A new movement in literary criticism is to make the disgusting seem profound by inoculating it with existentialist' gobbledygook...
...Just as the Heath Government's efforts yielded almost invisible results, so too, one would predict, will the muchheralded "austerity" plan of the current administration...
...Danger is groovy...
...His behavior is circumscribed by rules which entail no presumption of an invisible hand...
...We don't lay out a fee for the use of any given thoroughfare...
...Precisely because the British attached great value to welfare programs, the nation has been a world leader in social policy...
...the opposite sex is at best irrelevant and at worst a grievous annoyance to homosexuals...
...the sexual relations often appear more fecal than genital, reminiscent of the "sexuality" of an incontinent two-year-old...
...A perfect illustration of a peculiarly sloppy mental trait of our times: the willingness to grant value to almost any kind of behavior while denying (at least implicitly) the shared values that make communities possible...
...In our modern Babylons, one of the most striking features of Gay propaganda is its similarity to the ostensibly macho, " i f it feel~ good, do it" Playboyism marketed by Hefner, Guccione, and other journalistic flesh-merchants...
...For one's tendency, reading Genet, is not simply to accept the 'you' as oneself, but to move in and out of it pursuing one's own response to the otherness of the 'I.' " The moral: masturbation may not make you insane, but studying Genet produces glossolalia...
...As a conservative--and indeed a closet libertarian--I am not one to begrudge homosexuals their civil liberties or their privacy...
...In general, everybody else observes our rights to the position in traffic we have established, and no one bashes into us intentionally...
...The traffic cop makes no presumption that one was using the road in the public interest...
...The strongest enforcers of laws regulating consensual, adult sexual activity, it seems to me, are the same legal pecksniffs that recently tried to proscribe mother-daughter and father-son school functions...
...In a homosexual world, there is absolutely no reason why women have to be a part of a man's life...
...Cornelia Wilbur points out the somatophilia of lesbians, the obsession with "beautiful faces or beautiful bodies...
...There is nothing in the framework of traffic policy which encourages anybody to seek an optimum between costs and beneGeorge IV...
...the] preoccupation with breast development...
...senility, most of them seem to believe, sets in at age 30...
...The tawdriness of "homosexual liberation"--and of its brothers under the skin on the magazine rack--can blind us to the true gaiety of the nuptial relationship of man and woman which has endured throughout so many millennia of poverty and sorrow, of affluence and joy...
...the other love~ beauty...
...Under the circumstances, there is inevitably a considerable random element in law enforcement: the typical driver gets arrested for what he does all the time and what he sees his fellow drivers doing continually...
...There is really a kind of blasphemy about all this, a hatred of the created universe, a detestation of diversity among these supposed devotees of individual preference...
...Are you ready, ladies and gentlemen: It is "the penis...
...A good description of this is to be found in William Aaron's Straight, the autobiography of a homosexual who shook his habit to become husband and father: "In the gay world, promiscuity, voyeurism, incest, 'water sports' [urination games], and even coprophilia are, alas, far from rare...
...There is an unreality in this, a refusal to confront what John Crowe Ransom called "the world's body...
...Much of the Gay Lib propaganda intensifies the hatred for the opposite sex found, for example, in Ms...
...An Elmer Wayne Henley (the Houston pederast-murderer) may be as rare among homosexuals as a Richard Speck is among heteros, but there is a sadistic tone to much Gay Lib propaganda that is disturbing...
...More pointedly, that is becoming the other of the 'you' it addresses...
...Was she a "sexual object...
...Nata slaves, "one category of Chukchee shamans"--and "the top echelons of Nazi Germany...
...Hilton Highway Despotism: A Libertariau Look at Traffic Cops The enforcement of AmerCcan traffic regulations is in some ways as despotic as life in the Soviet Union, In the unlikely event that the reader seeks a sample of life in a Communist society, let him consider his relations with the traffic cop...
...Was my mother a drudge in subordination to the "master group" ? No more a drudge than my father who used to come home with hands and feet blistered from his job as a presser...
...Opler lists the ancient Greeks, the beraches (search me...
...Because of the risks involved, the process of allocation is circumscribed by a vast lmmber of rules for dealing with the resource...
...the memory of the inadequacy of social services during the Depression is still strong...
...In fact, promiscuity is the norm in homosexuality...
...further, "where the quality of love [suggesting an enduring relationship] is lacking, the lack must be compensated by quantity of sexual pleasure...
...I sympathize with the discreet homosexuals who must endure governmental incursion into their most intimate affairs...
...There does come a time in certain social issues when tolerance becomes spiritual laziness...
...Consider the following remarks addressed to potential contributors by Amazon Quarterly: "We accept no work from men, nor any work with a heterosexual theme...
...infidelity is also of the essence of the relationship...
...Just as revisionist historians have claimed to discover that Harry Truman started the Cold War in order to make the world safe for Smith and Wesson, so "Gay" revisionists would have us believe that history is a veritable procession of fuchsia chariots, emperors in drag, poets pining for the lad next door, and the boys in the band composing unforgettable symphonies...
...they detail the "hustlers" (the British call them "rent boys") and the "rough trade" (married and unmarried sadists) who often provide beatings and mutilations as part of their ' 'service...
...Thus, the idle fixe of Playboy on the frequency of orgasm, a concern it shares with the Gay Advocate...
...Aaron suggests the grim realitites of the gay bar as closing time approaches: "As the hour grows late, there is a steady stream of men swaggering, sneaking, stalling, and sidling in and out of the toilet...
...Consider what one Lesbian indentifies as the "material basis for power in Amerlla [sic...
...Stephen R. Maloney The Laveuder Menace Though many homosextals are harmless and even goodly, the "gay liberation" raovement is tawdry, libertine, and barbaric...
...In case even these measures prove too restrictive, the Labour Government is committed to modify them "as the general course of the economy and the most important needs of the community require...
...Non-coital] love rends to the good of the beloved, the other to the ruin of both...
...Karl Stern, another psychiatrist, says in The Flight From lVoman that the philosophical direction of our times is homosexual in its denigration of the traditional qualities associated with das ewig er/~sende Frauenzimmer--the ever-redeeming female, symbolic of intuition, receptivity, and compassion...
...Because it continues to do so, Britain will remain less prosperous as well...
...The be.wigged, rouged denizens of "wrinidesville" fred the land of the gay is no country for an old man...
...I f the government were trying to minimize deaths, it would simply prohibit automotive transportation...
...With a firm hand in the Treasury, North Sea oil, and good luck, Britain's economy may pick up again, thereby making social spending nearly as manageable as it was even a decade ago...
...Augustine called the "burning cauldron of unholy lusts...
...John Rechy, appropriately named, in City of Night and Hubert Selby in Last Em't to Brooklyn, are recommended only to aspiring misanthropes...
...The one is virile, the other effeminate...
...we do not need to call out the SWAT squad and the National Guard lest these United States go the way of Heliogabalus' Rome...
...This method of allocation, however, entails split-second decision-making which must inevitably be erroneous on many occasions...
...Gay sexuality in fact is almost wedded to lavatories...
...Homosexuals want to take this pathological aspect of our time and make it into a platform for a gay, new world...
...This creates a chronic anxiety as to when the police are about to descend, a fear they'll do so when one hasn't committed any offense, and an ethic of simply doing whatever one thinks he can get away with on the basis of his best guess as to what the police are likely to find out...
...And I believe, indeed know, that they weren't unique, there were thousands of other such families in the neighborhoods in which we lived...
...Psychiatrist Evelyn Hooker supports the view that "the most standardized and characteristic pattern...in the 'gay' world is the 'one-night stand.' " The gay bar is the center of activist homosexual life...
...The random element in law enforcement threatens him with the Gulag Archipelago, however, rather than a trip to the traffic court...
...All of the foregoing squares with the Soviet citizen's evaluation of the legal framework facing him...
...But the stated goal of our traffic policy--which is usually to minimize deaths in traffic accidents-simply doesn't stand scrutiny...
...When the police do descend, there is none of Adam Smith's invisible hand...
...The historical picture, in particular, must be brought back in focus...
...The homosexuals' stress on self.gratification indicates very little of the concern for the rights of others, very little interest in "consent...
...Ruitenbeek goes on, "For the growing boy...the contemporary family provides neither refuge nor models...
...Lest it be thought change is in the offing, it is worth recalling that one of Margaret Thatcher's major acts as Minister of Education was to call for a massive increase in public nursery school enrollment...
...His property rights are limited to a bare set of personal possessions...
...In the 1960s, the District of Columbia traffic authorities undertook a study of driver behavior and concluded that a typical driver violated a traffic rule every 30 seconds...
...That time has not yet come with Gay Lib, I believe, but it may...
...In William Butler Yeats' beautiful "Lapis Lazuli," we read the words, "for Hamlet and Lear are gay...
...And they are mysteriously compelled to go through this act of conquest and flight in an eternally repetitive experience...
...the penalty there for homosexuality was to be sodomized by the righteously indignant jury and then castrated...
...Most drivers face this, and make no effort to fight conviction...
...It doesn't do so, obviously, because there are countervailing benefits...
...The social reforms of Disraeli give British Conservatives as good a claim to the patrimony of the welfare state as Labour has...
...the shared judgment among thoughtful people in all vital and humane civilizations has been that sexuality finds its highest fulfillment in the connubial union of man and woman and that society builds its achievements on the foundation of the family...
...Or if you don't accept the penis et~vy-castration theory of history, try out Nick Benton's thesis that "Sex between persons of the same sex is the cultural antithesis to the most fundamental presupposition of the whole Western capitalistic mentality, which is derived from one fundamental act--'missionary position' sexual intercourse...
...Gay liberation is a strange mixture of the pathetic and the dangerous...
...allows us to make, as the homosexuals might say, perfect asses of ourselves...
...these kids know the score...
...One doubts this will happen soon...
...Viktor Frank], survivor of Auschwitz, psychiatrist, and originator of logotherapy, sees a direct link between the "Bunny" girl--being old-fashioned, he calls her the "chorus girl"--and homosexuality...
...ButJiU can't play on Craig Schoonmaker's side of the street either: "We should create men's neighborhoods and women's neighborhoods...
...An Assyrian tablet from the twelfth century B.C...
...But the basioproblem is one of choice...
...me eyebeams go from face to face...
...It will be the thesis of this short polemic that traffic law enforcement produces most of what is most repellent in Soviet society because of a common bond--the absence of property rights...
...Plato identifies the true nature of the adult-youth relationship as, well, Platonic: "the one love [pederasty] is made for pleasure...
...And if we want to establish a new basis for that order we know what will be the fate of the organ, don't we...
...There is little self-control (or self-knowledge) in most homosexual literature and activity and a corresponding unconcern for the survival of civilization...
...And now we must snicker when we hear "switch-hitter" (bisexual) or "pitch and catch," for homosexuals, though they mostly prefer frisbee to baseball, have even stolen from our national pastime...
...The parallel dosn't end with that...
...The rhythms of the bars reflect constant movement in a parody of normal sexual tension and release...
...For the first time in history, perhaps, a disease was cured by political meansma reversal of the Khrushchevian pattern of"curing" political dissent by psychiatric methods_9 Literary critics have fared even worse than the psychiatrists when faced with homosexuality...
...The policy was issued as an edict which most of us grudgingly accept as yet another aspect of the system over which we have no control...
...Howe's vision is clear...
...Their excessive concentration on self-gratification reinforces the onanistic tendencies found in such journals of supposedly heterosexual chic as Playboy...
...It is a view that the meaning of life ha, little to do with loveless couplings in decaying restrooms but that it has much--everything--to do with giving, sympathizing, and controlling, with the mystical complementariness of male and female...
...In his remarks on Don Juanism, Stern metaphorically puts the Playboy philosopher and the Gay theoreticians in the same intellectual bed: Don Juan is "the man who is fascinated by conquest but unable to love...
...Most of what we use as consumers belongs to us as a consequence of some market transaction, but not roads...
...The Constitution surely Stephen R. Maloney has previously written articles for The Alternative on Penthouse and Ms...
...He must queue up for housing and many other goods and services that are provided on conditions of disequilibrium pricing...
...Libertinism undermines libertarianism by ignoring the rights of others...
...Gordon Rattray-Taylor subtracts ancient Greece from the list of worthies: the common notion of the Athenian statesman, orating by day, feUating by night, is a myth...
...Students snicker when they read the lines--so that's why Hamlet didn't kill the King...
...As in Soviet society, the authorities choose a goal and force us to accept it...
...Adding such a nonprice restriction to the rise in the pump price of gasoline reduces the elasticity of demand for gasoline, and helps to stabilize the oil cartel...
...In The Doaorand the Sou/Frankl says sex with the chorus girls is characterized by impersonality...
...the criteria for sexual worth betray the same kind of immaturity one finds in the girlie magazines...
...When William Aaron in his gay days confronted a particularly libidinous pederast who hired seven- and eight-year-old slum dwellers to assuage his lusts, the man tossed aside Aaron's criticisms with the comment, "Let's face it...
...Far from it: roads are allocated on a first-come firstserved basis like foul balls in a ball park...
...magazines...
...it was preceded by "gay girl," a nineteenth-century term with connotations of commonness, even of prostitution...
...The rules are so numerous that inevitably they are violated continually...
...In choosing a lifestyle so at variance with the mores and the laws of society, most homosexuals equate sexual gratification with danger the way a junkie associates happiness with a "fLX...
...it is utterly humorless, like any pink-blooded American "liberation" movement, and it presents us with two major dangers...
...Until more factory hands are seen to be at least as necessary as having extra playleaders, group workers, and program coordinators, no real trimming of the welfare state will occur...
...One doesn't have to be a Freudian m note the childishness of most homosexual behavior...
...After this profundity, Dennison becomes almost diathyrambic, as he becomes the critical version of the one-man band: "What is the effect of our long confrontation with an T that is perpetually becoming...
...Just as we know that a "liberation" group is invariably composed of a collection of tyrants connected with liberty only in that they shun it, so the word-"gay" inevitably refers to the human equivalent of a chamber of horrors, a person whose self-hatred is only matched by his loathing for the "straight" world that provides him with an excuse for his own failures...
...In the happy days before the turn of the twentieth century, Americans called their decade "Gay...
...William Aaron rightfully points out that "Freedom means options," and that there is a submission to obsessions in homosexuality that denies freedom...
...George Dennison took on the culture-hero of the 1960s, the obese pederast-thief Jean Genet, and came up with such profundities as this one about Genet's "circuitous patterns of fetishism in the sense that for certain homosexuals the human male is a fetish standing for the human male...
...Very few lands have openly tolerated homosexuality...
...the adult male-young boy relationship so often confused with modern pederasty was 12 The Alternative: An American Spectator December 1976 anathema to the Greeks...
...One need not have friends of the opposite sex...
...The 55-mile-per-hour speed limit is widely looked upon as a foolish idea...
...Andrew Lyric has suggested that dictatorships cannot grow or thrive in a society where there is a strong family system...
...Indeed, most of the proposed reductions amount to postponing projects still on the drawing board or not filling positions in the civil service as the become vacant...
...Rather, roads are owned communally, and though the government charges us for using them, it is a flat excise on gasoline so small relative to the total cost of running an automobile that we act essentially as if roads were free...
...But as anthropologist Marvin K. Opler shows, that just isn't so...
...The Supreme Court's recent ruling upholding Virginia's sodomy laws, and permitting the enforcement of such laws by raids on private residences, left me with mixed feelings...
...the types that found an all-male elementary school choir inflagrante delicto, that is, singing without female accompaniment...
...The Alternative: An American Spectator December 1976 15...
...As Charles Soccarides, perhaps the greatest living expert on homosexual behavior, has said, we must recognize, if we "hope to survive," that mating with a member of the opposite sex is not only natural but also necessary...
...In the November 1970 Harper's Paul Goodman--littlrateur, pedagogue, pederast-indignantly denied that "any" sexual practice could be harmful to a child...
...Gay boy" comes from Australia, c. 1925...
...The rare consummation of such affairs was designated "vile behavior" and was punishable by death...
...If our times deserve that epithet, however, it is a sign not of our social mirth, but rather of our swelling preoccupation with homosexuality...
...The Dutch expert on homosexuality, Hendrik M. Ruitenbeek, says of childhood in our time that "the possibility for normal development has diminished...
...Spectators dash for a foul ball, jumping over seats or diving down aisles until somebody takes a firm grasp on the ball, after which the other participants in the chase usually, though not invariably, observe his property right to it...
...The one is an involuntary sickness [my emphasis], the other a sought enthusiasm...
...One preference the gays disdain is the choice of fidelity within the framework of traditional marriage...
...George Irl...
...i think it is more important that we revivify the family than that we expend our energy seeing that "homosexual rights" are strictly observed...
...The vulgar Marxism of our public discourse, with its chatter about collective identity, class struggle, and "liberation," has granted homosexuals new status as an embattled minority with as righteous a grievance against the hetero majority as that of downtrodden blacks in the Jim Crow South...
...Not exactly, as Archie Bunker might observe, "your mainstream of Western civ...
...Hilton, professor of economics at UCLA, is an expert on transportation policy...
...Auden's "Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love" is the only homosexual poem in this century to convey with artistic grace a romantic feeling toward a person of the same sex...
...Thomas Mann's brilliant novella, Disorder and Early Sorrow, written during the days of the Weimar Republic, shows the parallel disintegration of the family and of morality that prepared the way for Hitler...
...Another gay theoretician rallies to the cause of both the leather set and lover-starved farm boys contemplating their father's sheep herd when he calls for a reconsideration of "so-called [sic] perverted sex--sado-masochism, sex with animals _9 ..we shouldn't be apologetic to straights about gay people whose lives we don't understand or share...
...The late Arnold Gingrich, generally a superb editor, provides an exemplum of how far artistic tastes have declined when he gushes about Answered Prayers, "you walked in the wide-open door to wallow in the delicious dirt dished up by almost anybody about nearly everybody you've ever heard of...
...In a 14 The Alternative: An American Spectator December 1976 brilliant Harper's review of (bisexual) Kate MiUett's feminist screed, Sexual Politics, Irving Howe talks about his own family: I recall my mother and father sharing their years in trouble and affection, meeting together the bitterness of sudden poverty during the Depression, both of them working for wretched wages in the stinking garment center, helping one another, in the shop, on the subways, at home, through dreadful years...
...Rather, he presumes that one was using the road for some illicit purpose, and he looks for evidence of a stolen car, violation of liquor or narcotics statutes, flight from prosecution, or other crimes, Traffic courts have a nominal presumption of innocence, but the justice is mainly on a level of if-you-were-arrested-you-did-it...
...Many people are thus, like William Aaron, drawn in two directions, and Gay Lib rhetoric functions like a siren song, asking young people to smash their lives on the rocks of perversion and despair...
...In much of its jargon, gay polemics has wed itself to lunatic economic mysticism...
...Stern goes on to say, "In such men the ambivalence towards the mother is so deep and the homosexual tie is so strong that they cannot commit themselves to a woman other than by an ambivalent and sadistic relationship...
...As quoted by Tom Burke in Esquire, one of the New Homosexuals--the generation that turns on with acid and the Rolling Stones in lieu of pink gin and Judy Garland--suggests that a volatile mixture of promiscuity and thrill-seeking may be bubbling ever more vigorously: "...gay kids in their twenties don't have the hang-ups that old queens had...
...IVhat is more, its ambience is not especially gay...
...The Constitution, as Justice Goldberg said, is "not a suicide pact...
...Like other outlaw bands, the so-called "gays" have developed their own jargon and are expropriating some of the best words in our language...
...I never would have thought to ask, but now, in the shadow of decades, I should like to think that at least sometimes she was...
...If an aging eccentric solicits the services of a consenting adult, ties him (or her) up naked, and then rolls hard-boiled eggs at the hireling, all the while shouting "Bombs Away...
...I have visited gay bars in many 'of the world's great cities," says William Aaron, "but I have never seen one which was truly gay in the best sense of the word...
...It is not uncommon, Aaron points out, for a frequenter of the "baths," fetid with urine, sweat, and other effluvia, to "make love" [sic] with a dozen men in one night--and never, in the gloom, to see their faces...
...The rest are mainly restrictions on one' s use of the space in the flow of vehicles: speed limits, requirements for use of turn signals, permitted characteristics of the vehicle, and so on...
...The contrary notion is a myth promulgated largely by the militant homosexuals_9 Alas, the "myth" is now promulgated also by Bieber's colleagues in the American Psychiatric Association, which proved itself all profile and no courage in the face of gay demonstrations and disruptions...
...Yeats once said that "civilization is a great struggle to achieve self-control...
...In both cases the situation produces a feeling of powerlessness...
...Stern refuses to call these men "lovers," because they lack "the lasting commkment" necessary to love...
...We can laugh at "gay economics," but not at the movement's effect on other kinds of scholarship...
...And the ascendancy of homosexuals is helping us on the way to such disintegration in our time--not by the nasty acts they perpetrate on one another in the restrooms of the local bus station but by the way their self-justifications fuel what St...
...And the homosexual life, once kept shadowy and furtive for fear of discovery, is now so much in the open that it has become for some an Avocation: the "gay activist" of the '70s has replaced the civil rights leader of the '60s as a fixture on the trendy cocktails-and-talk-show circuit...
...Not very imaginative in their fetishes, I would say...
...I would like to suggest that if the T is the becoming of an identity which is a legend, the 'you' must be conceived of in a similar way: 'ordinary morality' as a legend and a becoming...
...Indeed, the word paiderastia, meaning literally "love of boys," was a part of the Platonic vocabulary and had by that time a generally pejorative sense...
...reveals more about that cruel land's justice than the lawmakers might have known...
...Among their gay brothers, the size of one's sexual organ is the key to happiness...
...There is a kind of Wilhelm Reichianism gone mad at the heart of homosexuality...
...Over against the hatred of the normal, what one observer has called "contempt for ordinary life, contempt for ordinary people...
...It's always new...
...Truman Capote's new novel, Answered Prayers, a structureless potpourri of gossip and perversions, coupled with such tasteless wisecracks as, "Women are like rattlesnakes--the last thing that dies is their tail," is succeeding mainly because it feeds jaded literary tastes...
Vol. 10 • December 1976 • No. 3
