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— Originally published in Honcho
magazine - February, 1996 —
The Reason Why
by Lefty Boylan (aka Michael Kirwan)
"Why us?" The question has echoed through our
devastated community for more than a decade. The
religious-right-fringe smugly attributes our ravaging to divine
retribution for our unholy practices. Conspiratists spin their
paranoid web around government cabals unleashing lab-created
plagues, because as the churches discovered two thousand years ago,
controlling people's sexuality is a fantastic source of power.
Nihilists contend that it's simply the bad luck of the draw, along
with different strokes come different diseases for different folks.
Who knows? There may well be a smirking deity or a group of fossils
in a boardroom somewhere rationalizing the "undeserved deaths" of
hemophiliacs and straights and babies. And I suppose it could even
be "just one of those things," but I prefer to put a Darwinian spin
on the whole affair. I'm no scientist, I haven't reams of supportive
data; I've only my own observations and instincts to go on.
Here goes. In a purely biological sense, we exist as a heterosexual
safety valve. We are a reproductive stopgap. Nature designed us to
function in accordance with the straight world, not independently of
it. Our physical imperative is to service straight males sexually,
suck their dicks, have them fuck us up the ass, and take any
pleasure they crave from our bodies and ministrations. This is part
of a delicately arranged natural balance, one that we completely
disregarded in the wake of gay liberation. We all did each other,
over and over again, abandoning our true social service structure
and eventually made our vast numbers redundant. We had slipped out
of our prescribed role and forged a new tribe, one that, in the
general scheme of life on the planet, had forfeited our biological
validity. We've all seen enough public television documentaries to
know the fate of species that no longer contribute to the vitality
of an ecosystem, and it isn't usually pretty.
As a backup strategy, sperm count worldwide has steadily decreased
in the last twenty years. By distancing ourselves from the
population control mechanism (we should have always been the
recipients of all that extraneous fertilizing sperm), nature
excluded us from the equation and instead opted for reducing the
viability of reproductive abilities of all Homo sapiens males. The
earth can only support so many human beings. Any ecological survey
will yield countless examples of organisms being eliminated en masse
should their numbers prove a threat to the basic harmony needed for
continual survival. Heartless? Cold? Cruel? When was the world not?
Our generation of homos have suffered a hideous, horrible,
frightening, painful gutting of our population and if we are
concerned about the next batch (they are after all our rightful
progeny) perhaps we should steer them out of harm's way. Not with
"safe sex" pamphlets and condoms, but by redirecting them toward the
straight boys who didn't "get lucky," or the ones that just need a
little titillation outside the pussy-farm, or those whose hormones
rage independently of their social possibilities. Get them out of
the protective ghettoes and into the very real larger world, where
their cock-sucking will do the most good. Meanwhile, check out any
classified section of any gay-oriented publication. See exactly how
many times the phrases "straight-acting" and "straight-looking"
appear and ask yourselves whether it's for societal convenience, or
because deep down, each of us understands what we are and what we
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