Sad To Be Gay – Part 2

Well, I watched the programme. Akinsanya was not such a basket case as I had feared, but the Love in Action crowd were every bit as deluded as I thought they would be. Akinsanya’s problem seemed to boil down to the fact that he expected to find true love in the middle of the gayscene, with its muscle marys, drugs, disco and one-night stands. Er, sorry, David, but (a) the chances are small (but not, I grant you, zero) and (b) there’s more to life than the gayscene, and you don’t have to pretend that you’re not gay in order to find it.

 

At least by the end of the programme he seemed to have realised that he could be a father figure to his godchildren. Perhaps now if he stops looking for true love (particularly in all the wrong places), it will sneak up on him. And to give him credit, he sussed out the LiA crowd for the bunch of religious nutters that they are pretty damn quick.

 

Mind you, Wayne Besen didn’t exactly strike me as someone I’d like to spend an evening with either – as David said, he had his own agenda.

 

What it seemed to boil down to in the end was the willingness of people to believe in illusions. Akinsanya believing that his happiness depended on him not being gay, and the LiA crowd believing that religion was the answer to turning gay people straight. Smoke and mirrors in both cases, but oh, how some people sincerely want to be fooled.