Homosexual Activist Goals
by Michael Swift, "Gay Revolutionary" Vol. VI, No. 4, May 1993
[The following article was first printed in Gay Community News, February 15-21, 1987, and subsequently reprinted in the Congressional Record. It is reprinted here in view of the gay rights march in Washington and proposed policies of the Clinton Administration. Obviously not all homosexuals would adhere to the militant views expressed by Michael Swift. However, these are the goals of an important element within the gay community, and Christians should be familiar with them. Editor]
This essay is outre, madness, a tragic, cruel fantasy, an eruption of inner rage, on how the oppressed desperately dream of being the oppressor.
We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all-male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us.
Women, you cry for freedom. You say you are no longer satisfied with men; they make you unhappy. We, connoisseurs of the masculine face, the masculine physique, shall take your men from you then. We will amuse them; we will instruct them; we will embrace them when they weep. Women, you say you wish to live with each other instead of with men. Then go and be with each other. We shall give your men pleasures they have never known because we are foremost men too and only one man knows how to truly please another man; only one man can understand with depth and feeling the mind and body of another man.
All laws banning homosexual activity will be revoked. Instead, legislation shall be passed which engenders love between men.
All homosexuals must stand together as brothers; we must be united artistically, philosophically, socially, politically and financially. We will triumph only when we present a common face to the vicious heterosexual enemy.
If you dare to cry faggot, fairy, queer, at us, we will stab you in your cowardly hearts and defile your dead, puny bodies.
We shall write poems of the love between men; we shall stage plays in which man openly caresses man; we shall make films about the love between heroic men which will replace the cheap, superficial, sentimental, insipid, juvenile, heterosexual infatuations presently dominating your cinema screens. We shall sculpt statues of beautiful young men, of bold athletes which shall be placed in your parks, your squares, your plazas. The museums of the world will be filled only with paintings of graceful, naked lads.
Our writers and artists will make love between men fashionable and de rigueur, and we will succeed because we are adept at setting styles. We will eliminate heterosexual liaisons through usage of the devices of wit and ridicule, devices which we are skilled in employing.
We will unmask the powerful homosexuals who masquerade as heterosexuals. You will be shocked and frightened when you find that your presidents and their sons, your industrialists, your senators, your mayors, your generals, your athletes, your film stars, your television personalities, your civic leaders, your priests, are not the safe, familiar, bourgeois, heterosexual figures you assumed them to be. We are everywhere; we have infiltrated your ranks. Be careful when you speak of homosexuals because we are always among you; we may be sitting across the desk from you; we may be sleeping in the same bed with you.
There will be no compromises. We are not middle-class weaklings. Highly intelligent, we are the natural aristocrats of the human race, and steely-minded aristocrats never settle for less. Those who oppose us will be exiled.
We shall raise vast, private armies, as Mishima did, to defeat you. We shall conquer the world because warriors inspired by and banded together by homosexual love and honor are invincible as were the ancient Greek soldiers.
The family unit – spawning ground of lies, betrayals, mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence – will be abolished. The family unit, which only dampens imagination and curbs free will, must be eliminated. Perfect boys will be conceived and grown in the genetic laboratory. They will be bonded together in communal setting, under the control and instruction of homosexual savants.
All churches who condemn us will be closed. Our only gods are handsome young men. We adhere to a cult of beauty, moral and esthetic. All that is ugly and vulgar and banal will be annihilated. Since we are alienated from middle-class heterosexual conventions, we are free to live our lives according to the dictates of the pure imagination. For us too much is not enough.
The exquisite society to emerge will be governed by an elite of gay poets. One of the major requirements for a position of power in the new society of homoeroticism will be indulgence in the Greek passion. Any man contaminated with heterosexual lust will be automatically barred from a position of influence. All males who insist on remaining stupidly heterosexual will be tried in homosexual courts of justice and will become invisible men.
We shall rewrite history, history filled and debased with your heterosexual lies and distortions. We shall portray the homosexuality of the great leaders and thinkers who have shaped the world. We will demonstrate that homosexuality and intelligence and imagination are inextricably linked, and that homosexuality is a requirement for true nobility, true beauty in a man.
We shall be victorious because we are fueled with the ferocious bitterness of the oppressed who have been forced to play seemingly bit parts in your dumb, heterosexual shows throughout the ages. We too are capable of firing guns and manning the barricades of the ultimate revolution.
Tremble, hetero swine, when we appear before you without our masks.
[Editorial Comment: We may contrast this diatribe with God's Word in Romans I:(20) For the invisible things of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: (21) Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. (22) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. (23) And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things. (24) Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: (25) Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. (26) For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: (27) And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. (28) And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient...
Note how Michael Swift's position is anticipated in Romans. A few examples: – Swift refers several times to the "imagination" of the homosexuals; v 21 says they "became vain in their imaginations." – Swift extols homosexuals as "highly intelligent," "natural aristocrats," "steely minded," and proclaims that homosexuality and intelligence are "inextricably linked." But God's Word says, their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." Swift asserts, "Our only gods are handsome young men. We adhere to a cult of beauty..."; v 25 says, "Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator," exactly what Swift says the homosexuals do.
We could continue to critique the article, but the point is made. There is no more profound rebellion against God than the practice of homosexuality, for it not only ignores His Word, it not only breaks His commandments, but it attacks the very expression of God in His physical creation in a most intimate and ultimate way. Conversely, one may speculate that all sin, all rebellion against God will, if persisted in, if repentance and redemption are spurned, will ultimately eventuate in the most extreme expression of that rebellion: homosexuality.
Swift's article demonstrates the deep lostness of homosexuals. He unintentionally reflects the tortured home life he apparently experienced. His pugnacity speaks of a deep longing for acceptance, but he refuses to humble himself before the Creator of the universe, thus ensuring the sterility of his future. He extols imagination but reduces his to a crotch. He writes of annihilating all that is "ugly and vulgar and banal," but his very assertions of superiority prove him himself to be in a very pitiful way ugly and vulgar and banal. The sterility of the homosexual lifestyle is shown in the following statistics: the average age at death of homosexual men with AIDS is 39 years, of homosexual men without AIDS 41.
Instead of homosexuality being characterized by intelligence, imagination, nobility, true manly beauty, natural aristocracy, and free will, it is actually the voluntary subordination of intelligence to egregious lust, the equating of imagination with puerile obscenity, the identification of beauty with filth, nobility with the lewd, natural aristocracy with debasement, and free will with enslavement to vice and self-gratification.
Even as we resist the homosexual agenda, Christians must grieve for and pray for these poor rebellious ones who voluntarily suffer such a sterile, painful, diseased-in-mind-and-body life in this world, to say nothing of the next.]