My Paypal piece received mixed reviews, but my editor at MercatorNet liked it enough to republish it, whereupon the consensus from commenters was that I had either written a piece of satire, or the most deeply anti-gay screed ever published on that site.
The beauty of art appreciation is that there are no wrong answers. I guess that applies to article appreciation as well. Puts a different spin on internet comments, n’est-ce pas?
Anyhow, my latest piece at MercatorNet is a brief response to the apparent acceleration of the sexual revolution. We’re only in June and already it feels like Transgender Appreciation Month. My how time flies when you’re re-engineering social constructs of gender.
http://www.mercatornet.com/conjugality/view/t-comes-right-after-lgb
The gains in T does not offset the losses in L, G, B.
If only you’d gotten in after the crash in 1984.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=lesbian%2Cgay%2Chomosexual%2Cbisexual%2Ctransgender%2Cqueer%2CLGBT&year_start=1900&year_end=2015&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Clesbian%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cgay%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Chomosexual%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cbisexual%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ctransgender%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cqueer%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CLGBT%3B%2Cc0
How’s that for a short answer?
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Now I really want a sandwich for some reason.
Wow, the late 90s were so gay!
Like, totally gay.
Then again, so were the 1820s.