long comment is long...freckles_slaymeNovember 18 2009, 14:57:24 UTC
I continue to agree with you wholeheartedly. I think part of why Adam is causing such a stir is because we haven't seen a lot of homosexual alpha males. The image of gay man in movies and books and TV is always of the femmy best friend who takes you shopping when a big stupid man breaks your heart. But that's not Adam. Adam is masculine first and also happens to be gay. He is a game changer. Or to borrow my favorite of someone's else descriptions of him, Adam is a Black Swan. (If you haven't seen the vid that let let me know, it's perfect.)
I completely agree about the treatment of gays by the gay community. This is what I wrote to the editor of Out. It' short, because they've received over a thousand letters (awesome!). The "us" at the end is inclusive in that we as humanity need to get this right. I'm not in the gay community myself, so I'm sure there are things I don't understand. But people are people and this is not how you treat others.
Dear Aaron Hicklin,
I didn't get to see the second half of this interview until after I heard all the bruhaha this morning, and now, having read it, I genuinely do not understand.
Adam has handed you a thing of beauty. This interview is deeply personal, profoundly pro-gay, stunningly erudite and devastatingly honest. You let him do it. You received his gift and then you slapped him across the face. How can you print his heart ache and in the next breath question his character, his authenticity, his openness?
He gave you everything he had, arguably more than he intended to. In return, you've managed to find a flaw and choose instead to focus on that. Even if everything you claim is true with zero room for interpretation and no shades of gray, you still cannot deny what Adam has done here. And yet you find it unworthy of him. What more could he have done?
How will we ever scale this wall when those we thought we our friends are the ones kicking our feet out from under us?
Beautiful letter is beautiful....norosegardenNovember 18 2009, 17:22:20 UTC
My hope is that Adam will somehow see all the support he's receiving and that it gives him strength. Additionally I hope at least some of the support is from the GLBT community of which I'm also not a part.
Even though you and I don't know each other beyond this place, I can tell *you* are a very special person. Knowing you're out there makes me very happy.
I completely agree about the treatment of gays by the gay community. This is what I wrote to the editor of Out. It' short, because they've received over a thousand letters (awesome!). The "us" at the end is inclusive in that we as humanity need to get this right. I'm not in the gay community myself, so I'm sure there are things I don't understand. But people are people and this is not how you treat others.
Dear Aaron Hicklin,
I didn't get to see the second half of this interview until after I heard all the bruhaha this morning, and now, having read it, I genuinely do not understand.
Adam has handed you a thing of beauty. This interview is deeply personal, profoundly pro-gay, stunningly erudite and devastatingly honest. You let him do it. You received his gift and then you slapped him across the face. How can you print his heart ache and in the next breath question his character, his authenticity, his openness?
He gave you everything he had, arguably more than he intended to. In return, you've managed to find a flaw and choose instead to focus on that. Even if everything you claim is true with zero room for interpretation and no shades of gray, you still cannot deny what Adam has done here. And yet you find it unworthy of him. What more could he have done?
How will we ever scale this wall when those we thought we our friends are the ones kicking our feet out from under us?
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Even though you and I don't know each other beyond this place, I can tell *you* are a very special person. Knowing you're out there makes me very happy.
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