The Perfect Gay Storm?

Has the gay movement achieved its "Perfect Storm," a confluence of events that just serve to create this monster that destroys everything in its path? There are some who are arguing that there is an "'overgaying' of America" taking place this summer.

OK, so we've had more focus on gay issues, on gay pride events and gay legal matters than we have in years past. And this summer the gay movement has been much more "in your face" about who they are and what they want.

I actually watched a little bit of Queer Eye For The Straight Guy the other night. It was amusing. But in describing Queer Eye, Bob Knight of the Culture and Family Institute at Concerned Women for America says:

The other one involves five homosexual men doing a makeover of the life of a heterosexual man. They cut his hair, they make over his apartment — they basically tell him that he's culturally deficient and they are the arbiters of fashion and style.

OK. I work with gay men. I'm straight. I will freely admit that they have a much better sense of style about them than I do. So long as I have clothes on, I'm fine. They want more. But I always know that if I have a fashion or design question - they're the guys to go ask.

Like the five guys on Queer Eye, they think differently than I do. They see things a different way. If I know that their way is better, why wouldn't I ask them? I'd ask Bob Vila for tips on renovating a house, why not ask James for tips on renovating my wardrobe (besides the fact I don't want to dress like Liberace - inside joke)?

I can understand the frustration with events like Gay Days at Disney or the push for gay marriage as those really affect large swaths of society. But going after Queer Eye like it's the equivalent of a gay high school or a law requiring businesses to promote transgenderism? No. Not the same at all.

This is where the anti-gay movement starts to sound as out there as the gay movement itself. There are some things worth staking out a serious principled position on and then there's Queer Eye.

Fight the real fights and forget the fads. Otherwise you sound like a group screaming to try to become relevant.