Inappropriate distribution of a gay-sex pamphlet in Brookline
By adamg - 5/18/05 - 7:08 pm
Fenway Community Health has apologized for making available an explicit safe-sex guide for gays at a Brookline event attended by middle-school students, but that's not good enough for Domenico:
... That it was unintended does not mitigate the outrage we should feel. That such events take place at all in school are an affront to childhood innocence and parental authority. ...
Comments
Re: Domenico's remarks
Dom wrote: "[M]aterials and events such as these are used as means of indoctrination of young men into the homosexual lifestyle."
Talk about a vast conspiracy, eh? Seriously, how can anyone actually believe that "the gays" are trying to recruit people to be subjected to the kinds of abuse and negativity of which they are too often the targets? Why would anyone *choose* such a difficult "lifestyle"? Some folks obviously don't grasp the fact that gay pride is about accepting and embracing the person you are, not choosing a life because you think it might somehow guarantee you some nice abs, a taste for Cosmopolitans, and fabulous taste in clothes and home decor. (Oh, and a liking for old hits by Gloria Gaynor and The Weather Girls.)
Indoctrination, indeed. *Pfffft*
Maybe not indoctrination
Maybe not indoctrination into the lifestyle but definitely acceptance of it. While that seems a worthy goal to me, alas, it is not the job of Brookline schools.
Pamphlet
I read the sourced blog and this is the usual reactionary piffle. It's never too early to start educating kids about safe sex, and though it sounds this pamphlet wasn't the most appropriate material, I sense this will be used as another opportunity to push forward a "don't push your homosexual lifestyle on my children agenda" disguised as a "let me control what you teach my children" attempt. A slightly tangential issue, but when these folks say that teaching our children tolerance and diversity is exposing them to things we don't want them to see, what they're really saying is that GLBT folks are bad and should be hidden. It also erroneously assumes that anything about gays is, at its heart, about sex, when really there's about as much sex in a book about a family with two Moms as there is in an Arthur book.
Re: Domenico's remarks
Why would anyone *choose* such a difficult "lifestyle"? Some folks obviously don't grasp the fact that gay pride is about accepting and embracing the person you are
I couldn't have said it better myself.
And if there really was a vast conspiracy, is my queerness not cool enough to get keyed into it?
pamphlet
oops