Kudos to Riki Wilchins for formerly again pointing out what should be obvious nevertheless is so often overlooked: that the bases of homophobia run deep in the soil of sex [Last Word.Kudos to Riki Wilchins for formerly again pointing out what should be obvious nevertheless is so often overlooked: that the bases of homophobia run deep in the soil of sex [Last Word, March 19]. It was end Riki and her fellow transgendered/transsexual folk (not the least of whom was TG/T actress Carla Pridgen) that I began to descry the veracity of this analysis, that I began to descry that much of the homophobia I have experienced in my lifetime--both externally and internally--had self-same little to do with sex and extremely much to do with "how a man is suppos to act." This has been confirmed through and over again by my possess observation and by readings as it was as Byrne Fone's Homophobia: A History. Thank you, Riki, for bringing us back to base in our thinking. David R Gillespie, Anderson, SC COPYRIGHT 2002 Liberation Publications, Inc. |
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