best books to read during pride month?
Anything by Gide.
OP's diary
The Book of Romans by Paul the Apostle.
Duvert, Matzneff, Sotos
>>25315536I am normal, but I don't ultimately dislike homosexual men or women. Provided that they are not allowed to marry, not allowed to adopt, don't host sexual parades for families to see, don't constantly campaign for undefinable and endless rights (if its legal you have all the rights you need), don't teach about it in schools, don't make it the crux of their character, then I don't see a problem. I am not religious btw, I am a former atheist leaning towards agnosticism, but believe religion is the foundation of all human societies and at least a cultural form of religion is required for a functional civilisation. As for literature >Petronius' Satyricon>William Burroughs - Queer/Junky/Naked Lunch>Sappho's fragmentary poetryThese are the only homosexuality adjacent works I have ever read.
>>25315586A little (a lot) off topic, but I think your take on religion is illogical. If we separate the cultural form from the divine and thus unquestionable source, what separates this cultural set of ethical laws from the law?If you dismiss the infallibility of the divine authority to make these cultural commands, why shouldn’t these cultural ethical and moral laws be implemented into earthly law? Shouldn’t common earthly law be the proper place for the backbone of functional civilization? What my ESL ass is trying to say that imposing divinely authored codes as ”cultural form” is dishonest at best, especially if you don’t believe in the divine authority. Also if the subjects have no option to make choices outside of these codes, so of course it becomes ”their culture”.
>>25315536>Platos Symposium>Marcus Aurelius faggy letters to his tutor>Fragments from Sappho>something about all the fags in renaissance Florence >Mishimas complete works>you're diary OP
>>25315600I'm sure you're right, but I just struggle to believe in a specific deity. I think it benefits everyone if the vast majority do believe in the divine that hovers above this cultural and moral religion. I just haven't been able to make that leap of faith, yet.
>>25315536Blood Meridian, it contains a surprisingly graceful and historically accurate treatment of homosexuality before the 20th century. I'm surprised it doesn't show up on more lists of books with prominent LGBTQ characters.
>>25315638>CatullusBut why? His desire for his Lesbia (nothing gay about that name, I named my son Analfag and he's hetero) is strictly heterosexual. References to a previous homo, Sappho that is, doesn't make his poems gay.
