The anti-gay right's latest bit of dangerous nonsense gets dissected by Jon Rowe over at Positive Liberty. At issue: a new book by David Kupelian titled The Marketing of Evil. In the section on gay rights, Kupelian suggests that the gay movement is following a "master plan" that was spelled out in a book by gay PR strategists back in 1990. That long-since out of print work is After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the '90s, by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen.
The funny thing is, while After the Ball was a smart
book about using the mainstream media to counter negative
stereotypes and promote honest representations of gay lives, it was
dismissed by many self-styled progressive gay activists at the time
as a "sell out" that advocated "assimilation" and substituted a
"marketing strategy" for radical, grass-roots coalition building on
the left. That right-wing conspiracy buffs think it was some sort
of master plan would actually be funny if it weren't so
hateful.
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