February 2005 Cover
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By
Dawn Ivory
Once upon a time, the "liberation" in gay liberation stood for freedom freedom from anti-sex laws, from police harassment, from choking social expectations.
But "liberation," like "gay" before it, has been corrupted beyond recognition. It is now used to suggest the "right" to conform. Take for example the name change at the Chicago Anti-bashing Network; they now monicker themselves as the Gay Liberation Network.
Such a name change would be, of course, welcome if it reflected a new-found commitment to... liberation, but the agenda over at CABN, oops, the GLN, is decidedly dreadful.
The group boasts of their GLAAD-like efforts to enforce only politically correct, wholesome views of homosexuality and homosexuals in the media. And they promise a future focus on the oxymoronic "freedom to marry" campaign.
Silencing others and touting the sexually possessive institution of marriage seem, to Dawn, to be actions antithetical to "liberation"....
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