I would completely trust my life to them in the Army. Much can be learned from the tempest over gays in the armed forces - a furor which Bill Clinton's dishonorable compromise will not even begin to quell. The uproar reveals three aspects of the sexual minorities issue that have nothing to do with prejudice and everything to do with establishment politics, military depravity and the pivotal place of the traditional monogamous family in the machinery of capitalism. The business of big business is isms - classism, sexism, racism, ageism, heterosexism. And the business of the armed services is defending big business.
Proletarian solidarity is dangerous to officers and orders.
And now that blacks and women are entrenched in the ranks, somebody has to remain excluded or inferior or segregated. What's more, expanded rights tend to make the execrated more uppity. The lavender menace that terrifies skittish politicos is a beautifully clear and present danger to Amerika's fraying fabric. The Military is Sick and Perverted Gay people aren't the ones with a deviant, illegitimate, immoral lifestyle. The military establishment is the body with the disease, and its name is sexual fascism.