David

Re: Working for nothing

6-22-2006

I believe in Bill's work. I BELIEVE IN BILL!

I get paid every two weeks, and after I found this site and found the liberation for my life that I so needed and wanted, I promised myself that I would donate from every paycheck.

I just made my regular donation...not a lot, but EVERY DOLLAR MAKES A DIFFERENCE!!! Just imagine how much could be done if evey man who visits the sites donated $1.00! The results could CHANGE LIVES on a grand scale!

Be a MAN and DONATE!

David

P.S. BILL...A VERY SINCERE, HEARTFELT THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO! I LOOK UP TO YOU!

THANKS TO ALL OF THE WARRIORS WHO CONTRIBUTE TO THE ALLIANCE! YOU ARE MY BROTHERS.

Bill Weintraub

Re: Working for nothing

6-23-2006

Thank you both Rm and David.

I appreciate all your kind words.

You're both True Warriors.

Guys -- David is right -- a little each month from each guy would do it.

Rm suggested a "Frotpot" -- any container will do, just put your spare change in there every day, and send it in once a month.

These are easy and reasonable suggestions.

Guys -- the people opposed to us have budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Hundreds of millions.

I just posted about how in Australia, they have an $812 million budget aimed mainly at "AIDS prevention."

Which in Australia is condom campaigns.

That's $812 MILLION spent to deliver this message to gay and bi men:

USE A CONDOM EVERY TIME YOU HAVE SEX.

The effect of that message is to IDENTIFY MALE-MALE SEX WITH ANAL PENETRATION.

And in that regard it's been very successful and will no doubt continue to be.

Is it successful in preventing new HIV infections?

NO.

Last year there was an increase in MSM HIV infections in Australia and New Zealand.

As there was in the United States.

As there was EVERYWHERE where condom campaigns were the only or predominant form of HIV prevention.

Condom campaigns do not work.

What we have to say does work.

And WE'RE ALL LIVING PROOF OF THAT.

Guys -- there is NO WAY I can do what you want me to do with NO MONEY.

NO MONEY.

NO WAY.

But with a lttle money, we could have a surprisingly large impact.

Because we're telling the TRUTH.

Let me talk about that for a moment.

Yesterday, a guy named Mike who'd posted on this site a couple times before wrote to me asking that his posts be taken down.

Why?

Because, he explained, he doesn't want his "femmy" gay friends googling his email address and finding that he'd posted on a site which endorses Masculinity and is, horror of horrors, critical of effeminacy.

Yet, this man first posted in 2003, and our position on effeminacy then was not one jot different than it is today:

Effeminacy is a self-oppressive behavior which buys into the primary lie about men who have sex with men -- that they're not really men.

In his first post, Mike said he agreed with us:

Finding this site and seeing all the other masculine-oriented men here has been a godsend for me. It's caused me to remember growing up in the country in Arkansas, playing in the forest, not able to find another boy to express myself with sexually but still treasuring my masculinity. I remember retreating into an effeminacy that really wasn't me when I hit puberty because my fundamentalist upbringing had taught me that men who loved men couldn't really be men. By "effeminacy," I don't mean gentleness, the strong, caring kind that my dad had and has. That's a good quality I want to keep. I mean the bitchy queeniness, the self-pity and all that crap you all already know about.

Furthermore, this is a man who when he first came to us, had just lost his lover to AIDS, and said,

I did get socialized into the gay world enough to try using dildos on myself and actually convinced myself for awhile that I liked it.

But Stephen's death shocked me awake, even though his health had been on a slow, predictable decline for a long time. I threw out the dildos, realize that they were a part of the culture that had killed my man in the first place.

Right.

That's what dildos are.

Part of a deadly culture.

Suppose this site hadn't been here?

Would Mike have gone back to those dildos?

Would he still be uninfected?

And now that he doesn't want to be here -- now that he thinks we're too critical of the very same culture which by his own admission "killed his man," will he be able, guided by those caring peers of his, his FEMMY friends, to stay HIV or HPV or hep C free?

WHAT HE WANTS IS FOR HIS FEMMY FRIENDS TO DICTATE POLICY ON THIS SITE AS THEY DO ON EVERY OTHER MSM SITE.

And everywhere else in the culture -- as we just saw in the post titled Channeling Judy.

If it was up to them, we'd all be channeling Judy and getting fucked up our femmy shitholes.

What's the point?

Why should we soften our stance on effeminacy?

So that these femmy idiots can further their self-destructive and hateful hegemony?

J-M Andriote, the gay HIV journalist who got infected with HIV but claims he doesn't want to know how, also wants to be able to dicate policy on this site.

He wants to determine who says what about his work.

Yet look at the world they've made.

Andriote:

I now feel a sense of healing within myself, as if living with HIV has helped me finally know that I'm loved and cared for. I'm learning to be present to my own suffering, and not to detach from my sadness.

What a message to send out to gay kids, many of whom are estranged from their families:

"Living with HIV" will help you know that you're loved and cared for.

And you'll learn "to be present to your own suffering" -- whatever the fuck that means -- "and not to detach from your sadness."

BUT WOULDN'T IT BE BETTER IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE THAT SUFFERING AND SADNESS TO BEGIN WITH?

And can't you be loved and cared for without having a fatal disease?

Is that how emotionally impoverished your life was, that the only way you could be cared for was by making yourself deathly ill?

What these people have done is turned "gay life" into a DEATH CULT.

They're the CULTISTS.

And when we dare to object, they threaten.

Or they piously clasp their hands and say, Your language is too harsh.

DEATH IS HARSH.

DEATH IS HARSH.

We celebrate LIFE.

We honor LIFE.

And LOVE.

LOVE BETWEEN MEN.

Guys, I'm loved and cared for by my husband -- in sickness and in HEALTH.

And, speaking as someone who's 58, plenty of suffering will come your way in this life -- you don't need MORE in the form of HIV.

That's the message we need to get out.

Not -- no matter what you do, you'll get infected.

That's NOT TRUE.

It matters what you do.

And here's another TRUTH.

EFFEMINACY FACILITATES ANAL PENETRATION WHICH FACILITATES DISEASE WHICH FACILITATES DEATH.

MASCULINITY IS HEALTHY.

EFFEMINACY IS NOT.

Mike objects to my calling males who do anal -- shitfairies.

But, using his own word, these are "femmys" who are into shitholes.

So, I guess instead of calling them shitfairies, we can just call them shitfemmys.

Fact is, I've tried for years to be polite to these people and it doesn't work.

Something has to be said to shake them out of their complacency, and I've learned that the word "shit" is effective -- because it punches through their denial about what really goes down during their "sex" lives.

Guys, we're in a war.

Not just about "men who have sex with men" -- but about life itself.

What is life about?

Is it about life?

Or is about death?

When we have sex, do we celebrate the organs of generation?

Or an organ of fecal excretion?

When we're in a relationship, do we strive to be faithful and true?

Or do we look to have as many encounters as we can?

Do we as Men cherish our Masculinity and exalt our Manhood?

Or do we deny our manliness, and seek to effeminize, to become something neither male nor female, a creature, as Robert Loring says, that was never meant to be?

And how do we regard disease?

As friend or foe?

When I was in the hospital, it took the staff a week to diagnose what was wrong.

Once they had, they brought me a special antibiotic, a liquid, in a cup, three times a day.

I would sip it, slowly.

The nurse asked me if it tasted bad.

I said No.

I said I'm sipping it because I want every drop of it to get into my body so that it can kill the pathogen which has been trying to kill me.

There was nothing romantic about the hospital, or that disease.

Or any disease.

But certain elements in the gay male community have created a cult around HIV, and around the unnatural and deadly act which transmits it.

And rather than eliminate this disease from that community, which could easily be done, they turn a blind eye to the ever increasing numbers of gay men infected.

That is wrong.

It is immoral.

And I will fight it so long as I have breath.

Help me.

Help yourself.

Help your fellow Warriors, the Men who are your Brothers.

FIGHT BACK.

© All material Copyright 2006 by Bill Weintraub. All rights reserved.

Bill G

Re: Working for nothing

6-23-2006

You're right Bill, it is a cult. but not just a death cult, I believe it's part of a larger "victim" cult. People have been conditioned to accept being a victim in this country. Being a victim gets you sympathy, gets you attention, sometimes gets you money. But in the end being a victim to HIV/Aids only gets you death. Not a starring role in a Hollywood/Broadway love tragedy

Guys don't be victims! Help Bill spread the word by donating. Just like the above poster, finding this site changed my life and how I viewed myself, don't deny that to others.

Bill G