Is the Gay Radical dead?

A question I have missed at AfterElton, is what happened to the Gay Radical voice when it was killed by aids? In the early 80s the radicals, being the most sexually liberated, were perhaps the most exposed to aids. The first to die. We lost many voices, and certainly what may have been our next Harvey Milk. I say that because another voice like his has yet to step up.

Today, the gay media isn't listening to the radical gay men because most of them are dead. An entire voice has been ripped away from the fabric of our discussion. I feel like I represent that voice, even if I' seem like the hysterical vietnam vet/ Regan era casualty and even though I don't have the intellect to carry it off.

I'm used to "gay friendly" forums trying to hush my kind of gay voice. The uppity gay voice. But the uppity gay voice is the only one that ever seems to get any initiative on a topic. Yeah, the centrist voice tends to create the legislation and compromise, but not until the radical voice has spoken. So, that's the controversy, the radicals get the ball rolling and the centrists make it happen and want to take all the credit and distance them selves from the radical voice. Now they got their wish, the gay radical voice is dead. And the political agenda has stalled.

I came from a gay politic that embraced radical ideals. But now we have moved to a suburban politic that embraces SUV's and McDonald's and Soaps. I missed out on that, happily, but I feel like there are huge pieces of gay history in the last 20 years that I am ignorant to. Like I have woken up from a Cryonic chamber. What happened to the gay radical voice? And why is it such a pariah now?

One day I would love to bend a Log Cabin republican over his desk and bang him till he cries for me to do it harder. Okay, I know that it isn't right to talk about my sexual fantasies in the middle of a debate, or what ever, but if I'm not going to get respect, at least I'd like a little boink from the gay conservatives.

As a radical voice I know that I am terribly wrong. By wrong, I mean that the majority opinion disagrees with me. But because I have been historically right on several issues, I don't care if you disagree with me today and take credit for my ideas 5 years from now. I just want the opportunity to expose you to the thoughts that will be occupying your mind in 5 years.