Overview
The first apartheid law that South Africa rescinded was their lawforbidding interracial marriage. The first law that was instituted by the Christian Roman emperors against homosexuality was a law forbidding homosexual marriages. Those two actions might well be viewed as brackets containing what we might refer to as the "modern age."We may already be in the "post-modern age." Certainly, we still have all sorts of problems to resolve. And, we have yet to rescind the law against homosexual marriages. But unless some nut blows us all up, or another makes us all zombies, there will be a gay age. Those laws against homosexual and interracial marriages are symbols of the prejudices and discriminations that the modern age has been; and, of the fear behind those prejudices and discriminations. The day may even come when historians give a new name to what we have been calling 'modern,' because it seems to have been more primitive than primitives themselves have ever been dumb enough to be.
What I am getting at was further symbolized during what might be called the climax of the modern age: the Nazi era. Nazism explained itself when it burned the Hirshfeld (homosexual) Library, and when it celebrated the first anniversary of that event with the passage of the laws of racial purity. Homophobia and racism are connected in the "Nazi mentality" whether people like to admit it or not. Indeed, to the degree that people are either racist or heterosexist they are "Nazi."
I cannot make such true if it isn't true; nor can you make it untrue if it is true.