OPINION: A Straight Man’s Reflections On a Gay Month
By Paul White, June 9, 2025 6:00 am
It would have been tough to be a homosexual in Detroit in the ’60’s.
“Smear the Queer”, was a popular backyard game for young kids: the name of which, sadly, never raised a single disapproving parental eyebrow.
Teen males routinely referred to each other as “Queer-bait”, to teasingly emasculate each other about their pending entry into a manhood they knew nothing about.
Boys wore yellow shirts on Thursdays (?), only if they wanted to be socially ostracized as self-identifying “homo’s.”
Two of my favorite high school teachers:
• Were excellent instructors and honorable men
• Were mocked frequently by my male classmates because of a perceived homosexual affect in their speech.
My high school’s administrators and teachers never made any effort to discipline the boys who humiliated these 2 decent men.
A Reversal of Positions, But the Same Extremism
Fast forward to 2008. My wife and I were living in Southern California. Public schools had completely reversed their position on aggressive student behavior IF it was pro-homosexual. The new norm was not only acceptance of such behavior, but encouragement.
One emotionally troubled 8th grade boy in our local middle school, with the full blessing of school staff, started attending classes wearing drag queen-style clothing, supplied by the school, along with high heels and makeup.
But that wasn’t enough to sate this homosexual student’s need for attention.
He wanted to be called by a girl’s name. He pursued an incessant campaign of humiliating a socially withdrawn and equally troubled heterosexual male classmate.
The cross-dressing student would tell classmates that he and this boy were dating. He mockingly asked the victim to be his valentine, in front of the victim’s few friends. The school allowed this painful humiliation to continue and refused to protect the victim.
The victimizer wouldn’t stop, so the victim felt his only option was to solve the problem himself. After months of torment, he brought a pistol to school one day, stood up in an English class they shared, and killed his antagonist. Both lives were destroyed.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-08-me-oxnard8-story.html
In earlier decades, there was harassment and unjust laws against homosexuals.
Today, there is harassment and unjust laws against heterosexuals.
America has not benefited from either extreme.
Our nation has not found a way to respectfully co-exist about an issue as basic as sexual preference. It is unraveling our societal fabric – and getting worse.
June is currently designated as “Pride Month.”
A stated purpose of that activity is for homosexuals to celebrate pride in their lifestyle choices, receive more respect, and gain more acceptance by society at large.
If that truly IS the “Pride Month” goal, then its organizers need to seriously consider enacting the following changes.
Dial It Back.
The greatest nation in the history of the world celebrates its founding on only one day.
The birth of Christianity’s Savior is celebrated on only one day.
Surely, one day – not a month – is an appropriate length of time for homosexuals to celebrate their historic struggle to achieve full legal rights.
Support the Removal of Hyper-sexualized Teaching of ALL Kinds from Our Public Schools.
• Our public schools need to get out of the business of promoting/teaching sexuality of any kind. They have failed to be objective or factual, and have worsened this situation.
• Schools must stop allowing the homosexual alphabet-acronym lobby to inject their mis-teaching and extreme beliefs into our classrooms and curriculum.
Public schools have one mission: teaching students the academic skills, respect, and work habits necessary to live independently, be good citizens, and contribute to their communities. Schools have failed to accomplish their only mission. The majority of our students border on functional illiteracy, and their learning level continues to drop.
That is why there is no justification for wasting school funding or instructional time promoting sexual preference-related activities of ANY kind.
Should students be thoroughly taught about human growth and development and the moral/spiritual values that should accompany that knowledge? Absolutely … and that’s what parents, churches and/or private counselors are for … and NOT public schools who have lost their moral compasses.
All “Pride” Celebrations Should Provide Honest, Accurate Facts to Those Who Have Chosen – or Are Considering Choosing This Physically and Psychologically Risky Lifestyle.
These facts should include the following.
1) Biologically, homosexuality is 100% a choice. There is NO “gay gene.”
2) A homosexual lifestyle is neither “safe” nor “normal” even though it’s presented that way, especially to children.
•It’s not normal, as defined by “something that most people do.”
For years, the percentage of U.S.men and women who choose a homosexual lifestyle has been estimated at no more than 2-to 6% of the population.
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/LGBT-Adult-US-Pop-Dec-2023.pdf
• It’s not “safe.”
Homosexuals have significantly lower life expectancies than heterosexuals (up to 20 years or more), and much higher rates of substance abuse, suicide, and mental illness.
Almost 70% of all annual HIV infections occur among just 2% of the U.S. population that is homosexual males.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9923159/
https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/data-research/facts-stats/index.html
“Pride ” Parades and Celebrations Should Model the Same Respect They Want to Be Treated With by the Rest of Society.
• That would require exempting parade participants who insult and mock Christianity.
• That would mean eliminating parade participants whose lewd and obscene public behavior in the presence of children, would get them arrested for sex crimes if the laws were being impartially enforced.
• “Pride” celebrations should celebrate one of the legal achievements homosexuals value the most: the right to be legally committed/married to each other.
• If the homosexual community truly wants society’s respect and acceptance, then the environment of “Pride” celebrations should exude the qualities of faithful, monogamous love that includes a commitment to strong morality and family values.
This ideal contrasts strikingly with the reality of most Pride-related celebrations. Their focus is on glorifying aberrant, perverse, and promiscuous displays of sexuality that are often too extreme to describe here, because of their sub-human nature.
Stop Making Self-absorbed Sexuality the Basis of Your Identity!
The main problem with “Pride” month, is its overriding message that the defining factor of a person’s identity is their chosen sexual preference.
Men and women are SO much more than self-absorbed, sexual entities; and we need to abandon that selfish fixation, because the world has an urgent need for ALL of us!
Our communities and nation are filled with schools to fix, unparented children to care for, substance abusers to heal, an environment to preserve, freedom to protect, the lonely to comfort, crime to stop, and much more.
If each of us, regardless of sexual preference, would make working together to solve these problems our top priority, it would result in an America that ALL of us could celebrate together – with pride – every day.
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