Camille Paglia Quote

Gay activism has been naive in its belligerent confidence that homophobia will eventually disappear with proper education of the benighted. Reeducation of fractious young boys on the scale required would mean fascist obliteration of all individual freedoms. Furthermore, no truly masculine father would ever welcome an feminine or artistic son at the start, since the son's lack of virility not only threatens but liquidates that father's identity, dissolving husband into wife. Later there may be public rituals of acceptance, but the damage will already have been done. Gay men are aliens, cursed and gifted, the shamans of our time.


p. 86 - Vamps and Tramps (1994) - "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality"


Gay activism has been naive in its belligerent confidence that homophobia will eventually disappear with proper education of the benighted....

Gay activism has been naive in its belligerent confidence that homophobia will eventually disappear with proper education of the benighted....

Gay activism has been naive in its belligerent confidence that homophobia will eventually disappear with proper education of the benighted....

Gay activism has been naive in its belligerent confidence that homophobia will eventually disappear with proper education of the benighted....