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one Narcissus seeks himself and gladly, madly, drowns in all his
reflections. More than one Odysseus looks from cave door to
cave door for his young sailing companions. David puts his arms
around his Jonathan. Walt Whitman finally sees the night that
men of his prediction embrace one another with muscular arms,
unembarrassed, in public places. Butch fucks Sundance. Recruits
stiffen before the hard-jawed commands of their ultimate Drill
Instructor. Nasty bikers kneel to suck off the greasy Wild One.
Jocks wrestle with golden champions. Leathermen submit to
the rope-tying midnight cowboy who smokes like the Marlboro
Man and sits his sweet dingleberry pucker down smack on their
faces. Tennessee Williams was right: “Sometimes there’s God so
quickly,” so...suddenly...so last summer.
Homomasculinists have little, if any, Jungian Anima. On a
10 scale, homomasculinists rate a nine for almost pure Animus.
Straight and bisexual and campy gay men are closer to rating
what militant feminists would rate as the Perfect One of Total
Anima. They are closer to the feminine principle. They are sons of
the Matrix. To a masculinist they are that contradiction in terms,
a feminist male. They are drawn toward the feminine Anima as
naturally as homomasculinists are drawn toward pure masculine
Animus. Masculinists are sons of the Patrix.
Neither is better.
Both are different.
Gravity draws all people toward what they like.
Each is to be not only tolerated but respected.
What males feel by nature they are most like they strive
out of admiration to imitate. For that reason, homomasculinists
think and fantasize principally about men. For that same reason,
heterosexual men can be totally straight, and yet cross-dress in
private to become like the women of their dreams. Gay men tend
to be gender-benders more for the love of feathers and social out-
rageousness than because they prefer real women. Drag queens
rarely dress up as real women. Drag queens, worshiping at the
Vamp-Mother Shrines of movie queens, would rather camp out
with Frederick’s of Hollywood than dress down with Anne Klein.
For their part, gay men as a subspecies have evolved only since
Stonewall. Gay boys and gay men did not exist in the days before
liberation when everyone was a generic queen. Almost as objective
correlative proof of like seeking like, more than sexual opposites

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