The blunting of the homosexual imagination

Anti-biology fascism despises the raw visceral power and passion of male homosexuality so it makes a joke of it

Fascism, being incoherent and anxious, is forced always to manifest in paradox. You see this with the awfully gay looking Nazi mass group exercise programmes and their confusing obsession with the male Arian body beautiful. Our modern fascistic force, anti-biology/biology denial does much the same so far as the homosexual male is concerned, it claims to be forward thinking and even calls it’s flag that of “progress” yet the prominence and emphasis it places upon campy, sexless cross-dressing men such as with “drag queen story hour” couldn’t be more 1970s if it tried. We have gone full circle, acceptable gay men these days who achieve any sort of public promotion by the gender borg are as limp-wristed, stereotypical and safe as John Inman cooing “I’m free” on the shop floor at Grace Brothers circa 1972.

The bread and circuses of our age

In drag queen story hour we have a useful vignette of how the forces of anti-biology conceptualise the gay male. Principally the conceit evokes and mocks motherhood, the gay male is prised from his natural environment, a bawdy same sex public house where anything can (and often did) go and is a thing defanged and domesticated, an insipid echo of something that was once subversive. The absent mother figure, as with so much of anti-biology fascism is simply erased as easily as she has been from medical literature which dare not say mother, woman etc. All of gender is here, the women are silenced and erased and the homosexual males are pet clowns, just as was our fate in the 70s.

That the modern gay rights movement promotes this sort of drag generally, and to children particularly tells you where it’s true enemies spiritually reside and the nature of the manifesto. As to the enemies; you don’t see many confident, clever, articulate, heroic or classically masculine gay men on the pages of the mainstream gay press or promoted by eccentric and extremist organisations like Stonewall. Nor do you see at all the presence of women with any serious claim to feminism or original thought outside of that. As to the manifesto, like any brand of fascism worthy of the name too much critical thought or exposure to competing world views cripples anti-biology and renders it an absurd grotesquery that collapses in under the weight of it’s own absurdity - no, if you want to sell “everyone has a magic gender soul voodoo” you have to get them young and keep them indoctrinated. Keep them scared. Scared of saying the wrong thing. Policed by their peers. Policing their parents. If you want a cultural revolution adopt the tenets of the cultural revolution.

It was a good year

Anti-biology fascism thus prefers fabulous drag icons over Alan Turing as role models. It prefers the vapid hedonism of puff pieces entitled “10 queens who are slaying it” over a biography of a homosexual male High Court Judge. And culturally, it prefers the stupifactants ketamine and mephedrone better to keep the buff gym boys bovine than it does any serious attempt to compassionately consider the deep, painful and sometimes fatal chemical burns in the community such leave in their wake. Remember kids, everyone’s happy under the rainbow so long as they say the right thing and don’t think too much about the wider intellectual structures that leave the homosexual male imagination a blunted, compliant and facile thing.

While we are in poverty for stereotypically masculine homosexual male role models pity the gender non conforming homosexual male who faces a far worse fate. If there is one epitaph of anti-biology-fascism that will speak its name with carbon-copy fidelity it is the advent of the self-castrating gay boy. Camp boys, future adult homosexual males if simply left alone, are now taught as earnestly as one might recite scripture that their wit, their artistry, their flair, anything about them that makes them obviously and quintessentially a homosexual male is diagnostic evidence that their gender soul was placed errantly by some force in a male body instead of a female one. In a now retracted and disavowed NHS Scotland website piece, it seems soon we are to see the advent of “eunuch gender”. (On which subject please see the heroic work of Genevieve Gluck reposted on Glinner’s blog here, here and here).

It’s also (i) beautiful and (ii) endlessly threatening to the small minded

Anti-biology fascism exegesis is never difficult, for gender is never less than obvious and so we need hardly ask ourselves which boys exactly might be actively groomed into hating their bodies to the point they turn to the NHS for removal of their testicles. There is but one constituency told their shape, desires and manners are offensive and call for medical correction now and always - that is (of course) the homosexual male and in this case the young homosexual male. I say with complete honesty I have never lived at a time where I fear more for the next generation of gay men and if a government is even dabbling with the question of making members of my community “eunuchs” it seems to me the masks are well and truly off and we are now unwitting guests trapped in this most ghastly and homophobic masquerades. The prospectus is clear, young gay men are to be a castrated monastic class of boys as punishment for their gender non conformity.

The invisibility of classically masculine (or just serious) male and the surgical prospectus offered to young gay men come from an old fear and thus share a common point of origin. To be male and homosexual is still to be socially subversive. To be male and homosexual and successful and serious or just not prance round in a dress seems to deeply threaten the anti-biology fascists. To be a happy and well adjusted camp boy no doubt deeply gifted in art or poetry or such things as gay men so often excel in seems to infuriate them most; for it is this constituency who effectively face state sponsored castration - conversion therapy by gender. Give us your camp gay boy and we will by surgery make you an ostensible straight woman. The true conversion therapy of our day increasingly recognised as such.

Women are always better at spotting this sort of ghastly thing

We are most unwise to imagine the visceral appetite for homophobic violence dissipated in some cloud of smoke circa 2010, that which was once delivered at the business end of a doc martin boot has simply retreated to whence it came, the surgery. This time the surgery is a gender abattoir where the homophobic violence is the same only this time (yet again) a man in a white coat delivers the coup de grace to those who dare to live as homosexual men. Many women express the same conclusion re misogyny not going away and simply re-manifesting. Anti-biology fascism, being of paradox and contradiction is an empty thing, and this empty thing offers a vehicle for those who have always wanted to beat up gays and silence women.

I say to homosexual men see the future clearly offered by this unholy alliance of corporations, unions, captured governments, remember these forces have never understood or been friends to gay men, see them for what they are. See that anti-biology fascism means most to reduce the raw visceral power and passion of homosexual men; see that it means to make that contained but explosive social revolution anytime two men kiss to a banal domestic consumerist experience aimed at making you a fun, trivial, sexless joke of a thing.

See how this force makes of our movement a mockery, exchanging our historical concerns for say gay men in Iran who face the death penalty for being gay, for concerns such as what pronouns to put it your bio or what silly pointless, state - sanctioned, market- tested ugly flag to fly. See what small and pointless men they are making of you, no longer brothers to gay men who need your help, no longer serious thinkers, artists, lovers, poets. See how this trivial hedonism and bourgeois identity obsession is designed to defang you and make you a kept, pointless thing in a cage - a thing incapable of offering a threat to those who want the industrial castration of your brothers and the mutilation of our lesbian sisters to the point they face existential threat.

Anti-biology fascism means to blunt you and make you a surburban, safe, tamed thing.

So be wild. Speak up. Be a thing with strength and fangs.

You can do it. We’re homosexual males. We’re tougher than them. We’ve dealt with this all our lives. They’re on an bourgeois gender gap year.

They don’t stand a chance.