You have here,my good friend,a sample of gay radical political thinking as it existed about at the time of your birth,a genuine museum artefact.

I have a friend in the age of 60, he is an old-fashioned communist and my most beloved contrahent on social issues. Whenever we come to talk about the gay rights movement as it is now - with gay marriage etc - he is critisizing the burgois mindset of our leading activists. In particular, he criticizes them for their strive to gain the same rights to enter the reactionary institution of marriage, instead of fighting for destruction of this institution. Ironically, he himself takes advantage of all the financial benefits offered to him by his heterosexual marriage - while at the same time denouncing the work done by LSVD-folks on behalf of gays. The left may have right with their ideas about marriage, burgoise etc - but it is as well true that if we give up our struggle for equal rights, straight people would simply continue the - highly theoretical - discussion for the next 100 years while gay people will remain the sub-humans of our days. We shall not forget what the institute of marriage means for binational couples - without this institution they would have
absolutely no chance to live together.
The hethro left as I once observed it at close range and in its most stereotypical behavior,didn`t had any real malevolent intention towards gays or homosexuality.Save for one thing,that it intended to use gays exclusively for its own ends,as it saw in the gay individual some ideal type of person it needed for its particular type of political activism: unhappy with his lot,with no family ties and with plenty of spare time to devote the cause of the hethro left.
No the left was probably not especially hostile towards gays - but I can't really see that there were a particular devotion to our interests. Both Marx and Engels were maybe not exactly homophobes, but certainly they were regarding homosexuals (that time, "Urnings") with contempt and never came to the idea to do something for their rights. In Germany, social democrats never really opposed the gay rights movement, they were rather indifferent, and every progress was actually enforced by the "Green Party" through political extortion.
If the gay people shall be fighting for anything, it shall be their own rights and their wn self-interest. History has demonstrated that the 'ros have no interest in even recognizing the inequities that separate the gay people from what is so piously intoned as "the rights of all people."
I completely agree. If we do not care for ourselves, who will? It is absolutely clear that any specific problem must be addressed as such, and not in the general context of world improvement. It is absolutely idiotical to preach to animal rights activists that they would better spend their time and ressources on starving children in Africa or victims of land mines - while
all of these problems require equal attention, it is absolutely unrealistically to demand from an activist (mostly a volunteer) to share his time between many activities. I have the impression that the political Left simply is weldging in their "Weltschmerz" instead of taking real action for something particular. The way to solve the "social question" is, of course, not to persuade gay rights activists to turn to the worker's problems, but to persuade workers (gay and straight) to get involved in trade unions etc. Certainly, gay businessmen shall see the proletarians as brothers - if they are
gay proletarians and
gay issues are concerned.
We also
desperately need "professional gays" - in the straight world they are called "politicians". Straights spend hundreds of millions of Dollars/Euros for their politicians, whereas our people snort at gays who give up their learned professions and devote most of their time to gay rights lobbying or gay research. How idiotical is such an attitude of discarding our own group interests?