The Romans had unisex crappers but men and women as a rule bathed separately. Why is this? They wore flowing garments that covered the toilet seat and so were not naked when doing their business. The Romans weren't prudes in the modern sense, but had a lot of, you should excuse it, ticklish points when it came to sex and sexuality.
Kameny was the original proponent of gays in the military and the godfather of gay gentrification. Harry Hay, the actual founder of Mattachine and a communist who was expelled from the Party for being queer, has been relegated, relatively speaking to the scrap heap. Look at a typical Gay Pride parade if you want to see Kameny's legacy--floats from car dealers, military honor guards (ugh), corporate functionaries in matching tee shirts, real estate firms. In DC the parade culminates in front of a Whole Foods store. It's disgusting. You can venerate Kameny's perhaps exaggerated achievements (he after all had nothing to do with Stonewall, which took him by surprise) if it makes you feel safe. Why not? But the gay movement owes its origin to communists, not to "mainstream" participants in capitalism. You could argue that the AFL laid the foundation for the gains of the working class in the twentieth century. How much do you revere Sam Gompers? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#4589): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/4589 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79053974/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
