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US liberals uneasy at rise of gay right : 'Homocons' credited with success of same-sex bill (Duncan Campbell, July 8, 2002, The Guardian)

They are the "Homocons", a new force in American politics which is helping to force the right to take up the issue of gay rights. [...]

"They're here, they're queer - they're conservative!" the cover of the latest Nation magazine, the traditional organ of the liberal left, exclaims. Inside Richard Goldstein, author of The Attack Queers: Liberal Society and the Gay Right, examines the rise of the conservative gay movement.

"If the very concept of an out-and-proud conservative seems like an oxymoron, you haven't been following the gay right's march across the American media," he writes, naming Andrew Sullivan, Camille Paglia and Norah Vincent as the conservative writers he sees as the "hot gay pundits".

Goldstein's argument is that the gay liberation movement is in danger of being taken over and made "virtually normal"; gay people being encouraged to have a lifestyle that comes as close as possible to that of heterosexuals with gay marriage a main goal.

I preferred the working title of Mr. Goldstein's hysterical book : The Protocols of the Elders of Fire Island. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 8, 2002 9:09 AM