Homosexuality and totalitarianism

Journal of Homosexuality

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-16

  Birken, Lawrence ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; PHOBIA; RELIGION; REVIEW;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHRISTIANITY; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; PREJUDICE; RELIGION AND SEX; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 0030951915     PISSN: 00918369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J082v33n01_01     Document Type: Review

References (40)

1. Marvin Liebman, Coming Out Conservative: A Founder of the Modern Conservative Movement Speaks Out on Personal Freedom, Homophobia and Hate Politics (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992), 12.
2. In this piece I have studiously avoided the term "Christian Right" for two reasons, one theoretical and one polemical. On the one hand, to use the term would undercut the whole point I am trying to make; namely, that cultural conservatism is essentially a secular ideology which merely utilizes the forms of religion. On the other hand, I have no intention of playing into the hands of those conservatives who treat every objection to their ideas as a form of "anti-Christian" bigotry.
3. David Chilton, Power in the Blood: A Christian Response to AIDS (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth and Hyatt, 1987), 31-32. Also see John Eidsmore, Gays and Guns: The Case Against Homosexuals in the Military (Lafayette, LA: Huntington House, 1993); George Grant and Mark Home, Legislating Immorality: The Homosexual Movement Comes Out of the Closet (Chicago: Moody Press, 1993). For an early overview of the politicization of AIDS, see Dennis Altman, AIDS in the Mind of America (Garden City, NY: Anchor, 1986), especially 9-29.
4. David Chilton, Power in the Blood: A Christian Response to AIDS (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth and Hyatt, 1987), 31-32. Also see John Eidsmore, Gays and Guns: The Case Against Homosexuals in the Military (Lafayette, LA: Huntington House, 1993); George Grant and Mark Home, Legislating Immorality: The Homosexual Movement Comes Out of the Closet (Chicago: Moody Press, 1993). For an early overview of the politicization of AIDS, see Dennis Altman, AIDS in the Mind of America (Garden City, NY: Anchor, 1986), especially 9-29.
5. David Chilton, Power in the Blood: A Christian Response to AIDS (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth and Hyatt, 1987), 31-32. Also see John Eidsmore, Gays and Guns: The Case Against Homosexuals in the Military (Lafayette, LA: Huntington House, 1993); George Grant and Mark Home, Legislating Immorality: The Homosexual Movement Comes Out of the Closet (Chicago: Moody Press, 1993). For an early overview of the politicization of AIDS, see Dennis Altman, AIDS in the Mind of America (Garden City, NY: Anchor, 1986), especially 9-29.
6. David Chilton, Power in the Blood: A Christian Response to AIDS (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth and Hyatt, 1987), 31-32. Also see John Eidsmore, Gays and Guns: The Case Against Homosexuals in the Military (Lafayette, LA: Huntington House, 1993); George Grant and Mark Home, Legislating Immorality: The Homosexual Movement Comes Out of the Closet (Chicago: Moody Press, 1993). For an early overview of the politicization of AIDS, see Dennis Altman, AIDS in the Mind of America (Garden City, NY: Anchor, 1986), especially 9-29.
7. Ibid., 33.
8. See Harry Jaffa, Homosexuality and the Natural Law (Montclair, CA: Center for the Study of Natural Law, 1990), especially 36, where this eminent academician writes that AIDS was "in its origins . . . entirely a disease of sodomites."
9. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Volume One (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 58.
10. For a discussion of the psychoanalytic Right and its views on homosexuality, see Ronald Bayer, Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis (New York: Basic Books, 1981), 21-40.
11. Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis (New York: Stein and Day, 1965), 386; Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (New York: Basic Books, 1962), 11, note 1.
12. Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis (New York: Stein and Day, 1965), 386; Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (New York: Basic Books, 1962), 11, note 1.
13. Altman, AIDS, 39; Allan Bérubé, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two (New York: Plume Books, 1991).
14. Altman, AIDS, 39; Allan Bérubé, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two (New York: Plume Books, 1991).
15. Andrea Dworkin, Right-Wing Women (New York: Perigree, 1983), 138-142.
16. Congressman William Dannemeyer, Shadow in the Land: Homosexuality in America (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1989), 73, 125.
17. Chuck Mcllhenny and Donna Mcllhenny, with Frank York, When the Wicked Seize a City (Lafayette, LA: Huntington House, 1993).
18. For a further discussion of what might be called the "genealogy" of sexual science, see Lawrence Birken, Consuming Desire: Sexual Science and the Emergence of a Culture of Abundance, 1871-1914 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988).
19. There is now a substantial body of literature, to which this author has contributed, establishing that the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw a unique accentuation of sexual differences. See, for example, Joan Landes, Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988). The Lockean underpinning of the separation of the masculine and feminine spheres in middle-class society is discussed in Linda Nicholson's Gender and History: The Limits of Social Theory in the Age of the Family (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), 133-166.
20. There is now a substantial body of literature, to which this author has contributed, establishing that the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw a unique accentuation of sexual differences. See, for example, Joan Landes, Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988). The Lockean underpinning of the separation of the masculine and feminine spheres in middle-class society is discussed in Linda Nicholson's Gender and History: The Limits of Social Theory in the Age of the Family (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), 133-166.
21. Lorenne Clark and Lynda Lange, eds., The Sexism of Social and Political Theory: Women and Reproduction from Plato to Nietzsche (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979) is also useful.
22. See Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler, Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave (Atlanta: Turner, 1994), which (perhaps as a favor to Speaker Newt Gingrich, who wrote the preface) cleverly avoids delineating the sexual and familial consequences of the coming globalism which the Tofflers discussed in earlier works.
23. Louis Dumont, From Mandeville to Marx: The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), 12.
24. See Jeffrey Burton Russell, Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986), 142, 156, for a discussion of the Christian concept of evil and its modern sequelae.
25. Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One (New York: Vintage Books, 1977), 253, 267, 342. Unlike some scholars who would differentiate between an "early" and a "late" Marx, I would distinguish between Marx the economist and Marx the metaphysician. As an economic theory, Marxism is of enduring importance and interest. But as a metaphysical theory which has all the elements of a secular religion, it ends up reproducing all the Enlightenment vices it originally criticizes as "ideology." For the problem of Marxism as ideology, see Jean Baudrillard, Mirror of Production (St. Louis: Telos Press, 1975), and, as a corrective to Baudrillard's extreme views, Moishe Postone, Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). For Hitler, see Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943). My views about Hitler are developed in great detail in Lawrence Birken, Hitler as Philosophe: Remnants of the Enlightenment in National Socialism (Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1995).
26. Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One (New York: Vintage Books, 1977), 253, 267, 342. Unlike some scholars who would differentiate between an "early" and a "late" Marx, I would distinguish between Marx the economist and Marx the metaphysician. As an economic theory, Marxism is of enduring importance and interest. But as a metaphysical theory which has all the elements of a secular religion, it ends up reproducing all the Enlightenment vices it originally criticizes as "ideology." For the problem of Marxism as ideology, see Jean Baudrillard, Mirror of Production (St. Louis: Telos Press, 1975), and, as a corrective to Baudrillard's extreme views, Moishe Postone, Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). For Hitler, see Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943). My views about Hitler are developed in great detail in Lawrence Birken, Hitler as Philosophe: Remnants of the Enlightenment in National Socialism (Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1995).
27. Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One (New York: Vintage Books, 1977), 253, 267, 342. Unlike some scholars who would differentiate between an "early" and a "late" Marx, I would distinguish between Marx the economist and Marx the metaphysician. As an economic theory, Marxism is of enduring importance and interest. But as a metaphysical theory which has all the elements of a secular religion, it ends up reproducing all the Enlightenment vices it originally criticizes as "ideology." For the problem of Marxism as ideology, see Jean Baudrillard, Mirror of Production (St. Louis: Telos Press, 1975), and, as a corrective to Baudrillard's extreme views, Moishe Postone, Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). For Hitler, see Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943). My views about Hitler are developed in great detail in Lawrence Birken, Hitler as Philosophe: Remnants of the Enlightenment in National Socialism (Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1995).
28. Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One (New York: Vintage Books, 1977), 253, 267, 342. Unlike some scholars who would differentiate between an "early" and a "late" Marx, I would distinguish between Marx the economist and Marx the metaphysician. As an economic theory, Marxism is of enduring importance and interest. But as a metaphysical theory which has all the elements of a secular religion, it ends up reproducing all the Enlightenment vices it originally criticizes as "ideology." For the problem of Marxism as ideology, see Jean Baudrillard, Mirror of Production (St. Louis: Telos Press, 1975), and, as a corrective to Baudrillard's extreme views, Moishe Postone, Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). For Hitler, see Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943). My views about Hitler are developed in great detail in Lawrence Birken, Hitler as Philosophe: Remnants of the Enlightenment in National Socialism (Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1995).
29. Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One (New York: Vintage Books, 1977), 253, 267, 342. Unlike some scholars who would differentiate between an "early" and a "late" Marx, I would distinguish between Marx the economist and Marx the metaphysician. As an economic theory, Marxism is of enduring importance and interest. But as a metaphysical theory which has all the elements of a secular religion, it ends up reproducing all the Enlightenment vices it originally criticizes as "ideology." For the problem of Marxism as ideology, see Jean Baudrillard, Mirror of Production (St. Louis: Telos Press, 1975), and, as a corrective to Baudrillard's extreme views, Moishe Postone, Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). For Hitler, see Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943). My views about Hitler are developed in great detail in Lawrence Birken, Hitler as Philosophe: Remnants of the Enlightenment in National Socialism (Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1995).
30. Daniel Pipes, "Same Difference," National Review, November 7, 1994.
31. For an example of this kind of rhetoric see Dannemeyer, Shadow in the Land, 47. The three paradigms of sexual theory are discussed in Birken, Consuming Desire, 113-131.
32. For an example of this kind of rhetoric see Dannemeyer, Shadow in the Land, 47. The three paradigms of sexual theory are discussed in Birken, Consuming Desire, 113-131.
33. For the rhetoric of asexual reproduction, see Guy Hocquenghem, Homosexual Desire (London: Allison & Busby, 1978).
34. Liebman, Coming Out Conservative, 13.
35. See Dennis Altman, The Homosexualization of America (Boston: Beacon, 1982) 79-107; John D'Emilio, "Capitalism and Gay Identity," in Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson, Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983), 110; Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism (New York: Random House, 1979); David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950), 13.
36. See Dennis Altman, The Homosexualization of America (Boston: Beacon, 1982) 79-107; John D'Emilio, "Capitalism and Gay Identity," in Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson, Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983), 110; Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism (New York: Random House, 1979); David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950), 13.
37. See Dennis Altman, The Homosexualization of America (Boston: Beacon, 1982) 79-107; John D'Emilio, "Capitalism and Gay Identity," in Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson, Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983), 110; Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism (New York: Random House, 1979); David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950), 13.
38. See Dennis Altman, The Homosexualization of America (Boston: Beacon, 1982) 79-107; John D'Emilio, "Capitalism and Gay Identity," in Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson, Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983), 110; Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism (New York: Random House, 1979); David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950), 13.
39. For recent right-wing criticism of Kinsey, see Judith Reisman and Edward Eichel, Kinsey, Sex and Fraud: The Indoctrination of a People (Lafayette, LA: Huntington House, 1990).
40. Chilton, Power in the Blood, 42-43.