> For gay/lesbian liberation (as a practical political matter) to
> triumph,
> it _must_ be based on the claim that gayness is a choice, and a choice
> all humans have a right to.
> "Hence, this doctrine necessarily arrives at dividing society into two
> parts, of which one is superior to society (in Robert Owen, for
> example)." Thesis on Feuerbach III
>
> A major form of bourgeois art is devoted (how self-consciously I do not
> know) to dramatizing the ease with which the "superior part" of society
> can rise above the rest by transcending capitalism in their private
> life. That is the essential thrust, for example, of _Lost in
> Translation_, in which the central protagonists float easily above the
> "alienated" world about them, engendering similar illusions (or
> delusions) in the audience.
>
> Perhaps the strained efforts to moralize without moralizing on kinky
> sex, etc. are just another manifestation of this desire to separate
> oneself from history, to have an "identity" untouched by surrounding
> corruption. The old comic line, "Stop the world, I want to get off," is
> not really very funny: it's bourgeois ideology at its worst.
Ted