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“In short, the gay lifestyle - if such a chaos can, after all, legitimately be called a lifestyle - it just doesn’t work: it doesn’t serve the two functions for which all social framework evolve: to constrain people’s natural impulses to behave badly and to meet their natural needs. While it’s impossible to provide an exhaustive analytic list of all the root causes and aggravants of this failure, we can asseverate at least some of the major causes. Many have been dissected, above, as elements of the Ten Misbehaviors; it only remains to discuss the failure of the gay community to provide a viable alternative to the heterosexual family.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the Gay’s in the 90s, p.363)
The authors of this book published in 1989 self-identify as gay. Kirk graduated from Harvard University in 1980. Madsen has taught on the faculty of Harvard University. He is a public-communications expert, designed commercial advertising for Madsen Avenue, and guided strategy for the Positive Images Campaign. This campaign was the first national gay advertising effort in American. The following quote from the introduction of their book along with the title of the book perhaps gives a very strong indication of the authors’ belief in a homosexual agenda. Perhaps this may be their motivation for writing the book.
“The campaign we outline in this book, though complex, depends centrally upon a program of unabashed propaganda, firmly grounded in long-established principles of psychology and advertising.” (Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the Gay’s in the 90s, p.xxvi)
These two quotes are just a sampling of many others written in books and articles published by those who advocate for homosexuality or self-identify as gay that may be read on this web site. Larry Houston who is writing the articles on this web site self-identifies as a former homosexual. His story may be read in the section, Larry’s story. This section also includes an article about Larry facing discrimination at Harvard University for being an ex-gay. In the section Overcoming Homosexuality are articles helpful not only to those struggling with homosexuality but also to anyone who desires a better understanding about homosexuality. The section Legal and Political has articles Larry uses lobbying the Massachusetts State Legislature on the issue of same-sex marriage. This section also has documents that were apart of a direct legal challenge to Goodridge, the legal case that resulted in allowing same-sex marriage in Massachusetts by judicial decree, 4 non-elected Massachusetts judges. The parameters of a discussion of homosexuality are best framed in the following way. Who one is, a homosexual or what one does, homosexuality. The support is strongest for the latter. The following quotes are by a man who self-identifies as gay. John D’Emilio is a university professor, author, and a gay historian. He too agrees that it is homosexuality, what one does. Homosexuality is an illegitimate attempt to meet the legitimate need for intimacy in same-sex relationships.
“There is another historical myth that enjoys nearly universal acceptance in the gay movement, the myth of the “eternal homosexual.” The argument runs something like this: Gay men and lesbians always were and always will be. We are everywhere; not just now, but throughout history, in all societies and all periods. This myth served a positive political function in the first years of gay liberation. In the early 1970s, when we battled an ideology that either denied our existence or defined us as psychopathic individuals or freaks of nature, it was empowering to assert that “we are everywhere.” But in recent years it has confined us as surely as the most homophobic medical theories, and locked our movement in place. Here I wish to challenge this myth. I want to argue that gay men and lesbians have not always existed. Instead they are a product of history, and have come into existence in a specific historical era. Their emergence is associated with the relations of capitalism; it has been the historical development of capitalism-more specifically, its free-labor system-that has allowed a large numbers of men and women in the late twentieth century to call themselves gay, to see themselves as part of a community of similar men and women, to organize politically on the basis of that identity.” (D’Emilio, Making Trouble Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University, p.5)
“I have argued that lesbian and gay identity and communities are historically created, as a result of a process of capitalist development that has spanned many generations. A corollary of this argument is that we are not a fixed social minority composed for all time of a certain percentage of the population. There are more of us than one hundred years ago, more of us than forty years ago. And there may very well be more gay men and lesbians in the future. Claims made by gays and nongays that sexual orientation is fixed at an early age, that large numbers of visible gay men and lesbians in society, the media, and the schools will have no influence on the sexual identities of the young are wrong. Capitalism has created the material conditions for homosexual desire to express itself as a central component of some individuals’ lives; now, our political movements are changing consciousness, creating the ideological conditions that make it easier for people to make that choice.” (D’Emilio, Making Trouble Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University, p.12)
Inventing the “Homosexual” and Identifiting a "Homosexual" are the two main sections on banap. The above two quotes are used more than once in these two sections. Inventing the “Homosexual” is a historical look of people and events that traces the history of homosexuality. The concept of homosexuality has a very short history, the word “homosexual” was coined in the late 1860s in Germany. The section Identifying a “Homosexual” has articles contianing information by those advocating for homosexuality attempting to to provide support for the ideal of a distinct individual, called a homosexual. In this section you will find information for a biological basis for homosexuality. The section, Bibliography, is an alphabetical list of sources used in compiling the information for banap. The number of sources is large so this section has two articles. One article is a list of books, and the second is a list of journal articles. Thank you for visiting banap.net This web site is regularly being revised and updated. Plans are being made to publish this information in a book form. banap.net is a resource for those seeking a greater understanding of “homosexuality.” Homosexuality is an illegitimate attempt to meet the legitimate need for intimacy in same-sex relationships.