When I was younger, the word gay carried connotations of abandonment of human wealth and sordid affairs of unmentionale attire. I must tell you that today, I think that this word is falling silent.
I was reading the Washington Post this morning and there is a story about a man who was gay in the Bush years and appointed to be the Ambassador of Romania. He silenced himself through many days of hate mail and harassment.
In all, the silence of the gays from some of the more criminal neglect over the past has resulted in my beliefs in the silencing of gay. Gay is a common term and once a term of excitement or happiness.
Through my years it was corrupted and read as a misnomer for evil and happenstance of impropriety and impurity.
Today, I am glad that in my own mind, I am not threatened by the word in any sense at this time.
I had suffered some extreme feelings of paranoia in the past in terms of the discrimination that one might face in the light of being accused of being gay at any length. I was young and knew friends who had been called gay even in light of no other same sexual affairs or clear interests. Even then we knew that there was something vastly wrong with that individual even though we did not expect him to jump in the sack with the next man he knew.
For the most part, this is an American condition that is improving.
The GOP for the worst of all scientific and rational extremes is such that it still continues to endorse the existence of groups like American Family Association and many other right wing christian and discriminatory organizations.
The fact is that the future of America should be one that the entire gay rights campaign is of course viewed as human rights and thus there is no hatred or ambivilence for the right for those in the same sexual orientation relations to coexist with humanity.
Lets hope that there is a silence of the word gay.
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