The HomosexualNetwork
Rueda, Enrique T.
THE HOMOSEXUAL NETWORK: PRIVATE LIVES AND PUBLIC POLICY
Enrique T. Rueda/The Devin-Adair Co. / $24.95; $13.95 pbk.
ment. In respect to this matter I learned more than I would have liked. I also...
...But apparently it is not pompous enough...
...I also learned more than I thought possible about the amazing amount of government financial support for the homosexual movement...
...What proportion lives in big cities or small towns...
...We do not learn what proportion of homosexuals have stable relations with their partners and what proportion are promiscuous...
...What proportion are teachers...
...So, homosexual spokesmen coined "homophobic...
...I think these data are basically correct and helpful although they are not sufficient to prove anything much...
...If we are to estimate the dimensions of the homosexual movement-and this book attempts no less-the missing data are indispensable...
...There is no reason and indeed no excuse for Father Rueda to accept this ignorant coinage which has become part of the homosexual ideology he set out to analyze critically...
...The book focuses on the political and ideological aspects of the homosexual movement, but, once more, the author confuses anecdotes or, more charitably put, non-quantified data with the quantified ones we need...
...So do homosexuals...
...Votes Democratic or Republican...
...Ernest van den Haag This collection of data on the homosexual movement left me with a divided mind...
...Although useful, it is far from searching or comprehensive...
...One instance of the lack of critical analysis will do...
...Neither do we learn how homosexuals are distributed spatially...
...THE HOMOSEXUAL NETWORK: PRIVATE LIVES AND PUBLIC POLICY Enrique T. Rueda/The Devin-Adair Co...
...When it comes to the homosexual ideology Father Rueda has assembled a lot of useful material though again he has made little attempt to analyze it...
...Thus, despite its lacunae, the book repays study for those interested in the extension of the homosexual network into our various institutions...
...Well, in fairness, it should be said that this is the only attempt I know of to depict comprehensively the homosexual network I wish it were better but at any rate it is a beginning...
...Hence a homophobic heterosexual man (or woman) hates other heterosexual men (or women) but not homosexuals...
...We learn .next to nothing about the social background of homosexuals...
...Such data are hard to come by, I know-but not impossible...
...There are sampling methods and . statistical procedures in which the author shows no interest whatever...
...We are not offered much about homosexual behavior, either...
...It may be noted, finally, that the book is...
...The one exception are data taken from various polls on the acceptance of homosexuals by the American public...
...My belief that the data are correct is based on my intuition and general knowledge: the book does not present us with an analysis of the data enabling us to make an estimate of trustworthiness or significance...
...Here again some estimates might have helped...
...particularly strong in its depiction of the relationship of some errant religious, particularly Catholic, groups, with the homosexual move...
...Since there is a sizable homosexual movement one wonders why we are not even offered an estimate of the size of the homosexual population...
...But homophobic actually means fearful of, or hostile to, the same kind, in the context, to the same sex, or to the same sexual inclination...
...What proportion works in the fashion industry or in the arts...
...We do not learn what proportion is poor or rich, college educated or not, nor what proportion is represented in various segments of the work force...
...Antihomo-sexual" would be an intelligible term to describe people hostile to homosexuals...
...Judges...
...Father Rueda uncritically uses this wordjto mean antihomosexual...
Vol. 16 • September 1983 • No. 9
