Talk:Homintern
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[edit] A few references
I found a few references that might help, Excerpts from: The Homosexual Revolution, END TIME ABOMINATION BY DAVID A. NOEBEL, with GERALD S. POPE, JULIAN WILLIAMS, 1977; CHAPTER 3, The Homosexual Life Style [1]
and from "Marriage marks the end of a gay era" by Robert Fulford (The National Post, 21 June 2003)[2] "W.H. Auden, who has been called the last unquestionably great poet born in England, liked the word "Homintern." He may even have invented it, as a joke on the laws against homosexual love-making. The word implied a mythical underground, an international gay resistance movement modelled on the Communist International (known as the Comintern), the real organization that Moscow operated from 1919 to 1943 for purposes of infiltration and espionage." Benjiboi 21:56, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Unsupported assertions
This article makes a lot of broad claims that need strong support, without supporting them at all. "Even most gay people" believed in a Homintern? How do we know that? The only secondary source cited here that could plausibly support it is the Gregory Woods essay, which in fact says the exact opposite, that "The only people who ever took this simple play on words seriously were those who feared the spread of homosexual influence."
And "These magazine articles were always illustrated with the color lavender"? Really, every one? Who looked at all of them to make sure?
And it was widely believed in the 60s that the Batman TV series deliberately promoted homosexuality. Really. I'd love to see a source for that; it should be mentioned in the article for the series, if true.
Funny that there's a dubious tag on the words "In the 1960s, the majority of gay people had not publicly discussed their sexuality". That's possibly the only claim in the whole article that I consider too obvious to need a citation. What's the dispute there? —Celithemis 21:13, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
