Disapprove of Gay Sex With Teenagers? ‘In That Case Just Shut Your Mouth’

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A columnist for the Huffington Post site says it is homophobic to criticize gay men who use Internet sex sites to meet teenage partners and only “bigots” are offended by such “nurturing intergenerational bonds.”
Publicity about a relationship between 39-year-old Hollywood screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and 19-year-old British diving champion Tom Daley has inspired criticism even from some gay rights activists.
Joshua Epstein, a blogger who identifies himself as a gay progressive Democrat, reacted to the Black-Daley affair on Twitter: “He could be his father. Yuk.” That reaction was condemned by Huffington Post columnist Michelangelo Signorile, who said only “internalized homophobia” could cause gays to criticize such relationships.
“There is an undercurrent in these comments — the ‘chicken hawk’ charge — that suggests that gay men are more likely to sexually abuse underage teens, the ugliest lie about gay men out there,” Signorile wrote Friday in Huffington Post’s “Gay Voices” section. “Hardcore homophobes are predictably pointing to Black and Daley as supposed proof. But many gay men too, so defensive about the charge and deathly fearful of how it’s used, overcompensate by saying ‘yuk.'”
Signorile specifically defended sites that promote “intergenerational” gay sex. “Some younger people are attracted to older people, and vice versa,” he wrote. “There’s even a gay website called Daddyhunt. The famed novelist Armistead Maupin’s 27-years-younger husband, Christopher Turner, founded it. The met on another one of Turner’s sites, HotOlderMale.com. If that’s not your thing, it’s totally cool, but in that case just shut your mouth.” . . .

Read the whole thing at The American Spectator.

 

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  2. It’s so quaint to see people who’ve scuttled traditional morality suddenly posture as though THAT is “too far”. If you’re not going to do it correctly, why not just see how ronngg you can get?

  6. I was wondering if there’s ever an occasion when Michelangelo Signorile feels the need to just shut his mouth. Without anything in it, that is.

  9. “A columnist for the Huffington Post site says it is homophobic to criticize gay men who use Internet sex sites to meet teenage partners and only ‘bigots’ are offended by such ‘nurturing intergenerational bonds.’”

    I at first thought: Well Kevin “Obama Fisting Czar” Jennings is back.

  10. Yuk. As they say. What is it about the phrase ‘shut your mouth’ that makes any person of spirit want to reach for a megaphone?

  12. The fact do, indeed, speak for themselves. It’s so wrong – heterosexuals speak up about 20-year age gaps, with no hesitation. I do not believe that the gay columnist who responded, “Yuck!” was wrong.

  13. Funny, essentially the same argument used to defend infanticide. “If you object to murdering children, then don’t murder them!”

    Such an argument is invalid, of course, if applied to Second Amendment rights. Or to watching Fox News. Or for that matter, to consuming Chick-Fil-A sandwiches.

    What it really means, as LN_Smithee remarks, is “If you disagree with me you forfeit your rights.”

  14. I really, really think we need another Chick-Fil-A appreciation day this late spring or early summer.

    For one thing, I cherish their peach shakes. Good heavens, but their peach shakes! Let me have a good reason to go have one!

  16. Wasn’t Barney Franks partner significantly younger? So, I’ll just guess, younger males appeal to the majority of middle aged to older gay men but it’s those with status who score the young stuff.

  19. Yet if an guy of the same age uses the internet to hook-up for “casual recreation” with a 19-year-old girl, the feminists would go bonkers. Do they not think how weak their arguments are?

  20. People frown at heterosexual relationships with 20 year age differences. 20 and 40 isn’t the worst thing ever… not like 15 and 35! But some people will have a “yuk” reaction. Others will be concerned about the difference in power within the relationship. The idea that only homophobia would account for the disapproval is twisted. Also, you know… it doesn’t matter who’s looking for a “Daddy”… if it’s a young woman or a young man… having sex with your “Daddy” is perverted.

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