N.Y. to Open 1st Public Gay High School
Hmmm. I’m not quite sure how I feel about this one. I mean, I’m uncomfortable with the whole “gay ghetto” thing in the first place, and if anything reeked of ghettoization, this is it. I also try to steer clear of anything too “lifestyle-ish,” and this easily falls into that category…but do I have the leisure to hold such views because I’m a quasi-privileged white faggot living in a quasi-gay ghetto in a relatively GLBT tolerant city?
In one of those strange alliances not seen since left wing feminists and right wing conservatives teamed up with Dworkin and McKinnon to fight Canadian porn, I find myself agreeing with conservatives–not because, as Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long argues, I believe GLBT kids should be forced to flounder about in the same failing educational system as their hetero counterparts, but rather because I feel young queers should probably be exposed to homophobic assholes like Long as often as possible so they don’t experience any rude awakenings after graduation. Trial by fire, I guess you’d call it.
But then, they didn’t ask me, did they?
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