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Indeed, the only desire that could finally be deemed libertine is our sexual one. But as a 52-year-old homosexual man who marched against Anita Bryant and survived the AIDS epidemic this is, in 2008, the most astonishing fact of all: The new gay world is nothing but the old straight one.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Sessums blogs about a wave of gay men who are becoming fathers through surrogacy &#8211; at The Daily Beast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[283],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Conservative desires and the new gay world - Proud Parenting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/10\/conservative-desires-and-the-new-gay-world\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Conservative desires and the new gay world - 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