GAY TRUTH

WASHINGTON, D.C.,  – President Obama’s White House will host a dedication ceremony for a new U.S. postage stamp commemorating Harvey Milk , the infamous homosexual activist who became the first openly gay elected official in California in 1977. However, friends and foes alike say Milk was more than an elected official – he was also a child sexual predator whose partners had a habit of killing themselves. The predatory nature of Milk's personal relationships led at least two of his young sexual partners to commit suicide – one of them Jack Galen McKinley, a 16-year-old runaway from Maryland. A biography about Milk written by his close friend and fellow homosexual Randy Shilts states that, in addition to the 16-year-old runaway, Milk had other relationships with underage boys, as well, indicating that Milk was a statutory rapist. Jack Lira, a 25-year-old alcoholic, also killed himself after his relationship with Milk went sour. Milk was attracted to “boyish-looking

Mark Regnerus , associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin , responds to the Atlantic Monthly 's cover story on how redefining marriage will change marriage, arguing in the  Public Discourse  that "the sexual permissiveness of men will emerge a winner in the contest of ideas as same-sex marital norms begin to shape the larger institution of marriage ": "...Stacey notes this gatekeeping function as well in her ethnography of gay relationships in Los Angeles , quoting early gay activist and journalist Randy Shilts ’s remark that among gay men there was “no moderating role like that a woman plays in the heterosexual milieu.” Furthermore, Shilts, author of  And the Band Played On , asserted that “so much of the gay community’s sexuality . . . seemed more defined by gender than sexual orientation.” The Add Health data concur, revealing that the subject of monogamy and its discontents is not limited to gay men. Shilts described how “some