Many lead rather quiet lives and have little interest in either bizarre display or political activism. Still, as I said, there clearly is a distinctive gay culture. If you judged by typical press coverage, you d get the impression that homosexual activists aren t at all alienated from traditional American culture. You d think they re eager to join it to adopt the values of monogamy and family, to pursue essentially normal lives if only society would let them. In truth, gay culture is characterized by its lack of norms moral norms, that is.
Many gay males have hundreds of sexual partners, as numerous studies have shown.
Homosexuals freely acknowledge this among themselves, albeit in value-neutral terms. Having no norms, gay culture also has no real concept of perversion. As decadent as American culture has become, promiscuity and pornography still draw lots of moral opposition among heterosexuals. There s only the amoral standard of personal preference. Even objections to adult-child sex have been relatively recent, tepid and tactical.