This is not really a specifically Christian claim, although Robert Goss presents it as such. I am suspicious, however, that the gay Christian apologetic mostly tries to evangelize Christians toward accepting homosexuality rather than evangelizing gays toward accepting Christ. When I proposed this in a letter to Ralph Blair, he rejected my idea with a laugh, "One of my clients said the other day that he heard somebody say that given all the gay men in New York that Dr. Blair has counseled, it's a wonder any gay sex takes place in NYC!" (Blair [1993])

In my own discussion with ACT UP in Toronto I found a mob psychology at work. The one sallow youth in the group with whom I talked was frightened and insecure, there because of being bullied by the leader to stand up for his rights, but really wanting to be elsewhere.

30 August 1996. Copyright information is available.