Gay Segregation - By Choice

July 30, 2003

By now, you've probably heard of the new gay high school opening up this year in New York City.   Harvey Milk High School will open in a newly renovated building in the fall, a renovation that cost over $3 million.   It bills itself as “the nation's first public high school for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender students.”   The school is named for the gay San Francisco city supervisor who was murdered in 1978.

 

With just 100 students enrolled, that comes to over $30,000 per student.   Hardly economical but that's beside the point, according to the advocates of such government waste.   The goal of this school is to let “ them get an education without having to worry,” says Mayor Michael Bloomberg.   Worry about what?   Ridicule?   Homosexuals hardly corner the market on ridicule in schools.

 

I grew up a runt of a guy, only 4-feet, 11-inches in the 9 th grade.   By the end of my senior year, I was 5-11 but in the intervening years I was an easy target for larger bullies.   Should I have demanded a separate school for little guys?

 

The irony of all of this is the radical homosexual movement has tried to append itself to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.   That movement was all about equal rights and breaking down the walls of segregation.   Now the agitator avant-garde of the gay movement wants to be separated from the rest of the rabble who obviously aren't hip enough nor intellectually mature enough to accept their deviant behavior.   Don't get me wrong.   I'm a live-and-let-live kind of guy.   But what the radical side of the gay movement wants in the name of tolerance is, in reality, acceptance of what it is they actually do.   Without that acceptance fully attained, they've now begun demanding separate facilities.

 

Is this the same movement that attached itself to Martin Luther King's Dream?   It is.   But now their dream is a gay utopia, where no one ever criticizes them.   A place where no one ever makes them feel uncomfortable.   I'm sure little kids, skinny kids, fat kids and kids who wear glasses would like the same thing but, unfortunately, that's not reality.  

 

I'm not defending the taunting of anybody.   Teasing and bullying should be discouraged but they are realities of life.   Instead of being whisked away to live as the Boy in the Bubble, they should learn to deal with unsavory people.   Believe you me, you can't hide from them forever.   Once you're out in the real world, you best be prepared for whatever life throws you.   In a sort of twisted way, public school does just that.

 

This whole notion of a gay high school blows a great, big hole in the notion gay advocates have maintained all these years; that they don't want special rights, just rights like everyone else.   This is a glaring case of special rights afforded to students just because they're gay.  

 

And will there be a test for admission?   What's to stop straight students from pretending to be gay in order to get the fancy new computers and the smaller class sizes?   You see, those very questions underscore the big difference between the gay movement and Civil Rights movement.   When you're black, you're black.   But it's quite simple not to lead with your sexuality, and that's what this is really all about.   Most heterosexuals have no problem with gays who don't make a big deal about it but they don't want it shoved in their faces.   New York has just shoved it in America's face and they shouldn't be surprised by all the ridicule.