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Michael Swift wrote and published this essay in 1987

Michael Swift: "Gay Revolutionary" From Gay Community News, Feb. 15-21, 1987 (reprinted from The Congressional Record, with preface restored) In 1987, Michael Swift was asked to contribute an editorial …More
Michael Swift: "Gay Revolutionary"
From Gay Community News, Feb. 15-21, 1987
(reprinted from The Congressional Record, with preface restored)
In 1987, Michael Swift was asked to contribute an editorial piece to GCN, an important gay community magazine, although well to the left of most American gay and lesbian opinion. A decade later this text, printed in the Congressional Record is repeatedly cited, apparently verbatim, by the religious right as evidence of the "Gay Agenda". The video Gay Rights, Special Rights, put out by Lou Sheldon's Traditional Values Coalition cites it with ominous music and picture of children. But when the religious rights cites this text, they always omit, as does the Congressional record, the vital first line, which sets the context for the piece. In other words, every other version of this found on the net is part of the radical right's great lie about gay people. For a discussion of the whole "Gay vs. Religious Right" phenomenon see Chris Bull and John …More