"The Gay Question"
"There is no such thing as gay or straight people. There are only noble or ignoble acts."
A mysterious individual who goes by Citizen of Geneva just published a superb essay under the title “The Gay Question: Was Hitler Gay? The Solution to the Riddle Posted by This and Many Other Such Cases.” in Volume I, Issue IV of The Asylum, which you can access on Chadnet or on the official website. This essay is on par with the work of Bronze Age Pervert, whose essay on classical music in this same issue you should all read, and Mishima. I would like for all who see this to read, share, and promote it, regardless of your initial reaction to the essay itself or my synopsis below. It is also worth noting that what Citizen of Geneva says is perfectly consistent with what Bronze Age Pervert has stated repeatedly on his show, e.g. Episodes 75 and 76 of Caribbean Rhythms on the gays, and in his book, e.g. Aphorism 33 “On Modern Brokenness.” These ideas are compatible with, and perhaps an essential component of, a genuine right-wing stance.
To give a brief summary, Citizen of Geneva argues that all friendship, including that between men, has an element of sexual attraction. The natural expression of same-sex attraction is physical affection that does not go beyond frotting.
This attraction to the same sex is not what distinguishes the gay. Gays can be divided into two groups. The core of the “gay community,” and what has always existed among human beings, is a group of men who act like women. What these feel toward other men is not same-sex attraction, but lust for the opposite sex, and what originally distinguished them from the great body of men up until the late nineteenth century was their utter lack of manliness. But most members of the “gay community” today are converts who, rejected by others for some kind of inferiority, fetishized their longing for friends to the point of paraphilia under the influence of gay pornography. It is also gay pornography that has caused the spread of sodomy, which the core of the “gay community” once rejected with as much vehemence as we do. The problem with “gays” is their attraction to the harmful and the degrading, and it is these qualities of their acts, not the acts themselves, that make “gay” behavior undesirable.
Citizen of Geneva divides men into two categories, gynocentric males and full men. Gynocentric males, about 40% of the male population, have no capacity for same-sex attraction and so no capacity for friendship. Their only desire is to be around women, to have sex with women, and to have “friendships” with women, which leads them to be treacherous and politically useless. Full men, about 60% of the male population, are capable of varying degrees of same-sex attraction. Only full men have manly virtue and the capacity for political action.
We have forgotten this because of the near-ubiquity of forced heterosociality, that is, the destruction of the all-male spaces that are the prerequisite for the manifestation and development of manliness and same-sex attraction. And as a consequence, full men fear forming close friendships with one another, and project their desire for friendship onto women, often in the form of the bizarre figure of the tomboy, but meet only destruction and woe because women are fundamentally vampiric on a man’s wealth and energies, untrustworthy, and incapable of loving men as anything more than means to an end.
The only real solution, the only way to demolish the “LGBT worldview” and put an end to everything including gay “marriage,” is to accept male same-sex attraction as normal and natural while rejecting the “gay” as a degenerated manifestation of it.
I conclude with the following quotations.
“Well then, there is no such thing as gay or straight people. There are only noble or ignoble acts. Understanding this is the only way to end the hysteria. If you are like most men, desiring to find a friend ‘after your own heart’, to love as a kindred spirit, is perfectly normal and healthy.”
“Allow yourself to experience and show affection for such a friend (with hugs and such), if you are lucky enough to find him.
‘Same-sex attraction’ is a non-issue: It is the way nature made friendship possible, and the best conduit perhaps to rising above everydayness, to the contemplation of Absolute Beauty, and finally to becoming what you are.1
Always you must care about, not ineffable essences, but concrete actions and individuals. Is what you do noble or vile, beautiful or ugly? Is this fellow you are dealing with a worthy and admirable one, and is your association with him making the two of you better men, fostering what is noble in your nature?”
“Courage, loyalty, aversion to craftiness, will to truth, ability to rise above pettiness (plus the specific qualities ‘in your particular style of divinity’). Is this what your friendship is bestowing on the two of you? Yes or no? This is all that matters. The challenge, if there is one, is to understand that these are not mere words, empty talk. This is what you should hold dear in life. The issue of sex, which so agitates contemporaries, is decided on the basis of these same criteria.”
That is, to discharging one’s inborn nature in works and actions. See Aphorism 263 in Book I of Human, All Too Human. See also Aphorism 503 in Book V of Dawn, where Nietzsche states that “all great abilities possessed by the people of antiquity took their purchase from the fact that man stood beside man, and that no woman was permitted to lay claim to being the nearest, highest, let alone exclusive object of his love - as sexual passion teaches us to feel. Perhaps our trees fail to grow as high owing to the ivy and grape vines that cling to them.” Commentary my own.
This essay was brilliant. It came to me and resolved an important chunk of the human question precisely when I needed it resolved. My thanks to this Citizen of Geneva! If ever I become a god, I should like to track him down and offer him some reward, or, coming too late, at the very least honor his grave.
A fascinating article. I am fortunate enough to have a deep friendship of the kind described here. It began, naturally enough, with our shared interest in dissident thought. It was not unlike Hellenic warrior's bond, I being on the cusp of manhood, he being a few years older. The bond has endured for years, and I think we have each done much to inspire greatness in the other. It simply exists at a more profound level than any male-femoid relationship. It has always been chaste, but I believe it has gone quite as far as the psycho-social conditions of our age allow. I find it is remarkably difficult to explain this kind of bond to others, and I would agree that, for about 40% of men, the idea of having a real male friendship at all is perplexing. Based on my own experience, I would somewhat disagree with the author's semi-pessimistic conclusion: If one wishes to find a homosocial environment in the contemporary world, look no further than the dissident sphere. There are kindred souls to be found, if one seeks with pure heart.