Michael Swift's "Gay Manifesto"

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21 May 2009, 1:05 am

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MICHAEL SWIFT ESSAY
Some commentators allege a more radical "homosexual agenda", quoting a satirical article authored by Michael Swift which first appeared in the Gay Community News in February 1987. Originally titled "Gay Revolutionary", the article describes a scenario in which homosexual men dominate American society and suppress all things heterosexual. The article was reprinted in Congressional Record without the opening disclaimer in which the author states that the essay is intended as "outré, madness, a tragic, cruel fantasy, an eruption of inner rage, on how the oppressed desperately dream of being the oppressor", suggesting it is a satirical piece of literary hyperbole, and is not intended by its author to be taken literally. But when the religious right cites this text, they always omit, as did the Congressional Record, the vital first line, which sets the context for the piece.
The essay is used as fear and hate propaganda by social conservatives and traditionalists and evidence that members of the gay community seek to redefine traditional American family values.
In other words, every other version of this found on the net is part of the radical right's great lie about gay people. For a discussion of the whole "Gay vs. Religious Right" phenomenon see Chris Bull and John Gallagher: Perfect Enemies: The Religious Right, the Gay Movement, and the Politics of the 1990s, (New York: Crown, 1996)

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21 May 2009, 3:48 am

Haliphron wrote:

The following was written in 1987 by a man who's (pen)name is mentioned in the subject heading.I honestly have no knowledge as to whether he was a straight man masquerading as a "gay revolutionary" or perhaps a closeted gay man in denial.He submitted it to the weekly boston GLBT Gay Community News I honestly am unclear why the would publish what is at best a satire and at worst an slanderous farce. So please take this with a grain of salt as it has turned out to be a forgery but still has an element of sarcastic humor:

There was a seething rage that underlied it that made it hard for me to believe that it was 100% satirical. It was more like someone venting. If it was published, that meant that some people at the newspaper liked it and thought their readers would like it, therefore I can conclude that a lot of gays harbor those same sentiments to some degree.

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21 May 2009, 11:46 am

it is satire, those are a list of everything that will happen to america according to the psycho religious groups. I am surprised I haven't Orwell in here throwing his 2 cents in.

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