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Wake Up, Homosexual America

War is being waged against you. Your enemy is relentless. Your casualties are mounting, one man at a time. You bear silent witness as your gay neighbor is swiftly and quietly disappeared. You watch as religious and political leaders are publicly humiliated and economically punished for doing the very things ordinary gay men do every day in America, be it flirting sexually with teen boys via the internet, hiring male escorts for private sex, or expressing sexual interest in other men in public spaces.

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or now, the elevated status of these public men protects them from being sent to prison. You have no such luxury. You could easily be sent to prison for years and permanently labeled an Enemy of the State -- placed on the Sex Offender Registry for the remainder of your life -- if you are caught in the same traps set for these public men.

Homosexual America, you have no refuge. The traps set for you are everywhere. You are unsafe on the streets you walk daily. You are unsafe inside your home. Your closed doors do not protect you. Your sexuality is being increasingly criminalized.

Why does this not enrage you? Where is your Million Man Homosexual March on Washington? Each time one of your brothers -- regardless of his social, economic, and political status -- is taken down by America's Sex Police, you should be clogging the streets in protest. Your collective outrage should be grinding America to a halt.

Your self-appointed leaders have failed you. They have chosen, out of fear and self-interest, to sit silently by as atrocities are daily committed against you. Why does a public intellectual, Camille Paglia, have to speak up for you? Have you become too afraid to use your own Voice? It is time you rediscover your Collective Voice before it is permanently silenced within the Iron Walls of America's Penal State. It is time you shout out until you get heard. It is time you fight to win this war, Homosexual America.

Edward Martinez
Springfield, Maine

Liberty!

Thank you for the editorial "Fewer Laws, Not More" [June 2007, available at Guidemag.com].

As a libertarian, I agree with you one hundred percent. Keep up the clear thinking and writing.

Nick Kyriazi
via email

Stung by Toilet Police

I have really enjoyed reading your editorial "Senators, Cops, and T-Room Sex" [October 2007, available at Guidemag.com].

I have been the victim of the same sting operation by cops. I was in a gay establishment. And yes it has turned my world upside down. have had to deal with letting my family know of what happened to me. I lost my job of seven years. It's not easy for me to find a good job, I have this in my record and future employers want to know the reason I was fired. All I have worked hard for has been stripped away. I have had to take a lot of humiliation. This is all now behind me. It's time to move on.
"Texmexbear6"
via email

Guide as Beacon

I enjoyed reading your editorial "Kinsey's Insight" [November 2007, available at Guidemag.com]. I'm glad someone still is sane in the U.S. I was fearing the view I got from the media was all-pervasive. Thanks for remaining a beacon in these dark times.

"Weled"
via email

Craig Case 'Sad'

Below is a link [to a story about U.S. Senator Larry Craig's allegedly active gay sex life], and of course I am angry about it, the hypocrisy, etc: http://www.idahostates-man.com/eyepiece/story/226703.html.

How sad the human condition when it is so hard to just simply be who we are.

I've always loved your magazine: thank you for it. Keep on doing what you are doing.

Timbo Troy
Tucson, Arizona

Wants Cop Nude

I really appreciate your magazine. My partner and I make frequent flights to a lot of the locations your magazine covers, and it has been really helpful.

I was just inquiring about one of the stories you published, "Is that a Warrant in Your Pocket?" December 2007 [available at Guidemag.com].

I was wondering about that police officer who sent that naked photo of himself to the women from the strip club. Is that full picture available somewhere without the blocked penis?

Bruce
via email

Editor's note: We do not have such a pic; you might query OrlandoWeekly.com, the folks covering the on-going police corruption case.