Hmm.

[unusualmusic_lj_archive]

I'm getting the feeling that some people think that homosexuality is a relatively new phenomenom. I'm also getting the feeling that some people think that its a phenomenom that only applies to white people. I'm not surprised, based on the fact that for much of history it has been considered weird and wrong. A great deal of oppression and suppression was the result of that. So, a couple, make that several, history and current affairs books:

Homosexuality and Civilization.

Unspeakable Love: Gay and lesbian Life in the Middle East

The love of the Samurai: 1000 Years of japanese homosexuality

Genders, transgenders and Sexualities in Japan

Islamic Homosexualities:Culture, history, literature

Boy-wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities

Male daughters, female husbands:Gender and Sex in an African Society

Colonalism and Homosexuality

Queering India: Same sex love and eroticism in Indian Culture and Society

The man who was a woman and other queer tales

Tritiyaa-Prakriti:People of the Third Sex

Homosexualities

Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality and Spirituality

The Changing Ones

And just for fun:

Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity

Comments

[doktor-x.livejournal.com]

No no no… Homosexuality was invented in the early 1980s by white men in New York and San Francisco as a direct attack on our Traditional Christian Family Values, and that’s why Jesus started giving them all AIDS….. And because we went against Jesus’ will and tolerated these people in our midst, Jesus allowed 9-11 to occur as a warning, Jerry Falwell said so before he died and went to hell…

I think it’s easier to demonize homosexuals/bisexuals/transgendered people if you present it all as something new that these people invented, rather than a basic part of humanity that has always existed…

[mothwentbad.livejournal.com]

Well, Christianity was just invented by some dude 2000 years ago, for that matter.

[doktor-x.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Very true! Personally, I think Jesus the guy would be disgusted by the beliefs and actions of most of the people who have claimed to be his followers for the past couple thousand years…

[mothwentbad.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. But I think hellfire is kind of a vindictive concept no matter what, and hellfire metaphors were his favorite way to end a parable, despite some of his very liberal positions.

I have no idea how he'd feel about abortion, though, or homosexuality, or stem cells, or whatever. I'm not too crazy about there being this second world where making things needlessly hard in this world is justified.

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. The Jesus guy had some good thoughts, and some bad ones as well.

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

No no no… Homosexuality was invented in the early 1980s by white men in New York and San Francisco as a direct attack on our Traditional Christian Family Values, and that’s why Jesus started giving them all AIDS….. And because we went against Jesus’ will and tolerated these people in our midst, Jesus allowed 9-11 to occur as a warning, Jerry Falwell said so before he died and went to hell…

Ya know, if it hadn't led to such tragic consequences, I could laugh all day at this reasoning.