Your essay has a great deal of validity but misses some nuance in its deterministic orientation (although I guess that was implicit in looking for evolutionary explanations, which are only ever just part of the full story).
I can only speak to anecdotes since this is not something I have spent time studying/researching: my own drift rightward was driven primarily by the same forces as every other white male (actually I'm Latino, which is "white-adjacent" though my own experience growing up was virtually indistinguishable from properly-White middle-class experience): concern for the Western values on which our society is at least nominally based. It's as simple as that.
Obviously I'd be naive to assert that there is no sexual drive underlying the yearnings in the depth of my psyche: in my case, as is the case for probably a large number of gay men missed in your essay, the ideal man is about 40 years old, not 16. That was the case for me when I was 16 and remains the case in my mid-50s. At an archetype level (which is as equally compelling to me as evolutionary explanations) it has everything to do with fatherhood: the ideal man is the kind of man who embodies positive paternal strength. So, politically, I will always prioritize policies that facilitate and incentivize whole families (mom + dad) where children can grow up in healthy environments with positive role models of both sexes.
Fundamentally, the major crisis facing us right now is that neither boys nor girls have positive male role models. Almost all of the current social pathologies flow from this root cause.
With regards to having high influence over culture, I'm surprised you did not put more into addressing gay men's higher verbal fluency and acuity. I would posit there is a strong correlation there; not a coincidence that the most powerful techbro right now is a gay jew.
Part of this tendency may be genetic, but a whole lot of it is probably environmental. Walt has written about how women win in the arena of words, and a lot of that is probably having to learn how to avoid direct conflict, which gay men have to learn how to do as well; though less so, to the degree that they are physically capable.
Would also be interesting for you to present more information on sports that are more gay-coded. These likely include swimming, tennis, gymnastics, track but not basketball, football, combat, baseball. Soccer, volleyball, ice hockey, powerlifting are somewhere in between and tend to split either way, depending on the context.
One aspect of this is training that requires more fluidity and endurance (<hetero) versus training that requires more strength and technique (>hetero). Another aspect is highly contingent on social organization. Country clubs, which are often a hub for gay men, are more amenable to racket and aquatic sports (individual talent) compared to league sports (teamwork).
Plus, certain athletic endeavors are more conducive to other activities that gay men participate in with frequency, such as modeling/acting.
If we accept your hypothesis – which I agree with – that more non-flamboyant gay men will start drifting rightward, I suspect there will be an in internal cleavage between those who are more rhetorical/artistic/expressive (thus more centrist) and those who are more autistic/systematic/technological (thus further right).
Brother: all the grunting, the scrum touching, the short shorts, all without armor... Rugby's basically competitive cuddling with occasional running. There's a reason it's one of the most popular gay league sports outside those places.
If you want the Right to appeal to gay and single men even more, then how about having them aggressively subsidize IVF, embryo selection, and surrogacy, especially but not only for low-income people? I might be willing to overlook the Right's anti-immigration stance if it actually did this and the Left didn't.
BTW, nowadays there are even ways of making *straight* men a little bit gayer. For instance:
There’s a gayness that mimics women—essentially femininity and pseudo-womanhood, with the extreme end of this being straight trans women (homosexual transsexuals).
Meanwhile, there is the other kind of gayness that exhibits a love of “the real, the true, the masculine”, in the words of Ernst Rohm. It’s a type of autoandrophilia that loves everything about masculinity and hates everything about femininity.
Queers ruined their status as half-way sane when they demanded sacred victimhood and therefor entitlement during the AIDs crisis. Before, it was common practice in the West to discriminate officially against deviant sexual behavior but allow it in a hidden way, as in don't scare the horses.
Unfortunately, heterosexuals could not hold homosexuals accountable for their dangerous promiscuous behavior and were captured by the sacred-victim, entitled parasite culture. In this case it was Christianity that has now become parasitized and will eventually either die or reform.
> …gays seem to have a stronger preference for straight coded men which means that they are cooler with heteronormativity, at least on an aesthetic level…
There’s also a threshold effect where the gays most motivated by this preference leave the ‘gay’ category entirely and become ‘trans women’. That’ll be the focus of my next article.
I guess... but most "transwomen" these days are autogynophiles, i.e. straight men who let their cross-dressing/sissy-porn fetish consume them. I assume you are aware of Blanchard?
As for HSTS transsexuals: they are delusional. It is much easier to find an appreciative "straight-coded" gay man than an actual (non-GAMP/chaser) straight man who is willing to have homosexual sex with a cross-dressing man with a very poor facsimile of female genitalia.
Blanchard’s framework is solid, but I try not to overname-drop him—it gives AGPs too much ammo for their endless defamation campaigns, making it all about him instead of the consensus in contemporary sexology. Anyway, yes, here’s my article on HSTS. I didn’t cover GAMPs this time, but they’re fascinating and deserve their own future piece.
Your essay has a great deal of validity but misses some nuance in its deterministic orientation (although I guess that was implicit in looking for evolutionary explanations, which are only ever just part of the full story).
I can only speak to anecdotes since this is not something I have spent time studying/researching: my own drift rightward was driven primarily by the same forces as every other white male (actually I'm Latino, which is "white-adjacent" though my own experience growing up was virtually indistinguishable from properly-White middle-class experience): concern for the Western values on which our society is at least nominally based. It's as simple as that.
Obviously I'd be naive to assert that there is no sexual drive underlying the yearnings in the depth of my psyche: in my case, as is the case for probably a large number of gay men missed in your essay, the ideal man is about 40 years old, not 16. That was the case for me when I was 16 and remains the case in my mid-50s. At an archetype level (which is as equally compelling to me as evolutionary explanations) it has everything to do with fatherhood: the ideal man is the kind of man who embodies positive paternal strength. So, politically, I will always prioritize policies that facilitate and incentivize whole families (mom + dad) where children can grow up in healthy environments with positive role models of both sexes.
Fundamentally, the major crisis facing us right now is that neither boys nor girls have positive male role models. Almost all of the current social pathologies flow from this root cause.
With regards to having high influence over culture, I'm surprised you did not put more into addressing gay men's higher verbal fluency and acuity. I would posit there is a strong correlation there; not a coincidence that the most powerful techbro right now is a gay jew.
Part of this tendency may be genetic, but a whole lot of it is probably environmental. Walt has written about how women win in the arena of words, and a lot of that is probably having to learn how to avoid direct conflict, which gay men have to learn how to do as well; though less so, to the degree that they are physically capable.
Would also be interesting for you to present more information on sports that are more gay-coded. These likely include swimming, tennis, gymnastics, track but not basketball, football, combat, baseball. Soccer, volleyball, ice hockey, powerlifting are somewhere in between and tend to split either way, depending on the context.
One aspect of this is training that requires more fluidity and endurance (<hetero) versus training that requires more strength and technique (>hetero). Another aspect is highly contingent on social organization. Country clubs, which are often a hub for gay men, are more amenable to racket and aquatic sports (individual talent) compared to league sports (teamwork).
Plus, certain athletic endeavors are more conducive to other activities that gay men participate in with frequency, such as modeling/acting.
If we accept your hypothesis – which I agree with – that more non-flamboyant gay men will start drifting rightward, I suspect there will be an in internal cleavage between those who are more rhetorical/artistic/expressive (thus more centrist) and those who are more autistic/systematic/technological (thus further right).
Can’t believe you listed a dozen different sports in relation to gay men, and not one of them was rugby!
I'm not a filthy Brit nor Australian. No cricket either. 😅
Brother: all the grunting, the scrum touching, the short shorts, all without armor... Rugby's basically competitive cuddling with occasional running. There's a reason it's one of the most popular gay league sports outside those places.
As you know there were many gay National Socialists and Fascists, both prewar and postwar.
Yep:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-strange-strange-story_b_136697
This explains why back in the day, the USSR and the PRC were extremely homophobic (even more than the USA or other Western countries).
Not to mention how Fidel Castro and his brother are homophobic.
Prior to the early 90s/late 80s, it seemed left-coded to be Homophobic.
I remember reading an article titled "Marx would line up today's Leftists against a wall and shoot them" years ago. Can't seem to find it at all.
I remember that it talked about how the Eastern Bloc thought being Gay was "Bourgeois decadence".
It was on some obscure article hosting website and was by @Dubya.
Found it!
https://archive.is/CV4XB
"Marx Would Line Today’s Leftists Up Against the Wall and Shoot Them"
If you want the Right to appeal to gay and single men even more, then how about having them aggressively subsidize IVF, embryo selection, and surrogacy, especially but not only for low-income people? I might be willing to overlook the Right's anti-immigration stance if it actually did this and the Left didn't.
BTW, nowadays there are even ways of making *straight* men a little bit gayer. For instance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2JzUlr3Ki4&t=133s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn1hsVyBv1c&t=215s
Tldr:
Left wing homos = fake and gay
Right wing homos = gay but not fake
FBOE gays are generally very catty and conformist. Right wing gays are extremely rare, and eve gay republicans are often turncoats
There is little incentive for them to be right wing and these gay uncle evo psych explanations dont hold up
You forget to mention the legendary sodomite Renaud Camus, who I believe coined The Great Replacement.
Any correlation to the gayness which is effeminate as opposed to gayness which wants to rayp and dominate other men (think prison rayp culture)?
There’s a gayness that mimics women—essentially femininity and pseudo-womanhood, with the extreme end of this being straight trans women (homosexual transsexuals).
Meanwhile, there is the other kind of gayness that exhibits a love of “the real, the true, the masculine”, in the words of Ernst Rohm. It’s a type of autoandrophilia that loves everything about masculinity and hates everything about femininity.
Well I forgot one can't wait for a legion of Dees
Queers ruined their status as half-way sane when they demanded sacred victimhood and therefor entitlement during the AIDs crisis. Before, it was common practice in the West to discriminate officially against deviant sexual behavior but allow it in a hidden way, as in don't scare the horses.
Unfortunately, heterosexuals could not hold homosexuals accountable for their dangerous promiscuous behavior and were captured by the sacred-victim, entitled parasite culture. In this case it was Christianity that has now become parasitized and will eventually either die or reform.
> …gays seem to have a stronger preference for straight coded men which means that they are cooler with heteronormativity, at least on an aesthetic level…
There’s also a threshold effect where the gays most motivated by this preference leave the ‘gay’ category entirely and become ‘trans women’. That’ll be the focus of my next article.
I guess... but most "transwomen" these days are autogynophiles, i.e. straight men who let their cross-dressing/sissy-porn fetish consume them. I assume you are aware of Blanchard?
As for HSTS transsexuals: they are delusional. It is much easier to find an appreciative "straight-coded" gay man than an actual (non-GAMP/chaser) straight man who is willing to have homosexual sex with a cross-dressing man with a very poor facsimile of female genitalia.
Blanchard’s framework is solid, but I try not to overname-drop him—it gives AGPs too much ammo for their endless defamation campaigns, making it all about him instead of the consensus in contemporary sexology. Anyway, yes, here’s my article on HSTS. I didn’t cover GAMPs this time, but they’re fascinating and deserve their own future piece.
https://thecalipers.substack.com/p/gay-men-are-trans-women