Reply #22: I have really struggled over it. [View All]

[David__77]

I am sure I'm older than you - in my 30s now. But I feel a linkage to that past because when I decided to come out at 14, I spent so much time studying the experiences of the early gay rights movement, and especially its radical variants. At first, I was very "out," taking up "Queer Nation"-style politics in some ways. Later, at times I adopted a sort of "rejectionist" position where I always downplayed the gay rights question as secondary to racism, imperialism - I treated it as a sort of afterthought to the struggle against sexism. These days, I see more of gay people in gay bars than anywhere else. That's my fault...