No apologies for Russian homophobia "baiting" -- you really have to get over treating any critique of your adopted homeland and its government as bigotry and baiting -- see what happened at the gay right rally the other day. I'm not saying that Americans are better, so it's not comparative that way. We're both in cellar with the Iranians.
--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Wait a second -- I've already addressed the "you
> missed the joke" aspect of this and ignored the
> "Russian homophobia" baiting, but where's the sex
> stuff in Dante? Beatrice/Dante have the total
> courtly
> love relationship going on. She's practically
> immaterial, literally.
>
> --- andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I dunno why gays should have to keep their sex
> lives
> > to themselves any more than straights. The movies,
> > drama, literature, and arts are saturated with sex
> > from Homer to Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare (also
> lots
> > of gay stuff), Milton, and Donne, Rabelais,
> Tolstoi
> > Flaubert, etc. Never mind popular song. ("Bird do
> > it,
> > bees it it . . "" oops ! That was also by a
> queer!)
> > You are acquiring Russian homophobia.
> >
>
> Lyubo, bratsy, lyubo, lyubo, bratsy, zhit!
>
> ËÞÁÎ, ÁÐÀÒÖÛ, ËÞÁÎ, ËÞÁÎ, ÁÐÀÒÖÛ, ÆÈÒÜ!
>
>
>
>
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