In Brief: The Vision of a Gay Liberationist
Let me start by outlining the gay liberationists’ vision of society. I suppose that the society to which they aspire is one in which young people, as they grow up, will become aware of a wide variety of life patterns: monogamy – multiple partnerships; partnerships for life – partnerships for a period of mutual growth; same-sex partners – opposite-sex partners – both; chastity - living in community – living in small family units; and so on. A world, furthermore, in which each young person becomes aware that each of these life patterns is held in equal esteem in society. So that each will be free to choose the partner or partners with whom they wish to share their lives – to choose the person or persons with whom it makes most sense to them to live, in the fashion which makes most sense – or, indeed, to live alone, or in community, or to move from one pattern to another as life develops.
Malcolm Macourt, Towards a Theology of Gay Liberation (1977).¼/p>
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