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Thanks to the e-reader (Dawn is now available at www.guidemag.com!) who noted Los Angeles Times' attention paid to the Gore Vidal interview in Genre magazine. (Genre is a "lifestyles" rag, so odd to find Gore therein, given his distaste for GayLife and everything Rainbow®.)

Gore, as usual, is on-target, saying of gay marriage, "Of all the non-issues on Earth, this is the greatest... You'll always find some mad fool who wants to lead everybody into a state where all fags [the LA Times prissily changed this to "gays"] are paired off and married.... [A]nyone who wants to enter that legal morass known as marriage-- it's on their heads." Gore went on to note that a better agenda would be protesting laws against homosexuality.

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Dawn has long-been a Vidal fan, so his rational insight didn't surprise. What was shocking, though, was Genre editor Morris Weissinger's comments: "Gore doesn't toe the line of gay rights activists, but he is a living legend, and his perspective is sorely needed-- it's important to have input from those who came before us, even if it contradicts current thinking on the subject."

Wow. Morris doesn't get it: "current thinking" on sexual liberation issues desperately needs "contradicting." It has been poisoned by quislings willing to trade civil liberties for invitations to Republicrat cocktail parties. The "current" drive to prove we can be loyal soldiers, tidy neighbors, and anti-sex parents represents a retreat from our more basic agenda: to free everyone from the fear that sexual expression must be tightly controlled. "Dinosaur" Gore understands what Morris does not: replacing one group of sexual authoritarians with another represent no advance.