#26
Posted: 4/25/11 at 1:55pm
"Of all the things I hate Larry Kramer for, however, it's the fact that he is one of the chief offenders who just keeps repeating all the same negative BS about the gay community that has become the received wisdom over the years. Gay men don't care about each other, gay men have attitude, all gay men care about is sex. He knows nothing. He really knows nothing about what happens on a community level and he never has."
Not to overshare or anything...but what the hell. As I sat in the hospital for a week, waiting to say goodbye to David, I was surrounded by my closest group of friends. All but two were gay. I was also surrounded by my family (and David's family). My mother turned to me at one point and said, 'Ya know...you all come from families who accept you and have never had a problem with you being gay. And yet you still found each other and made this amazing family for yourselves. That's very special.'
The gay community may have elements of what Mr. Kramer rails on and on about. But it's simply not the sum of its worst parts. We're just a group of profoundly flawed, profoundly human people who try to get through this life as best we can. I don't need to be told I'm better than anyone else. Nor do I need to be berated about not living up to Sophocles or Leonardo da Vinci.
Not to overshare or anything...but what the hell. As I sat in the hospital for a week, waiting to say goodbye to David, I was surrounded by my closest group of friends. All but two were gay. I was also surrounded by my family (and David's family). My mother turned to me at one point and said, 'Ya know...you all come from families who accept you and have never had a problem with you being gay. And yet you still found each other and made this amazing family for yourselves. That's very special.'
The gay community may have elements of what Mr. Kramer rails on and on about. But it's simply not the sum of its worst parts. We're just a group of profoundly flawed, profoundly human people who try to get through this life as best we can. I don't need to be told I'm better than anyone else. Nor do I need to be berated about not living up to Sophocles or Leonardo da Vinci.
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