Homosexual Manifesto
By Michael Swift
This essay was originally printed in the February 15, 1987 issue of Gay Community News, later reprinted in the February 15-21 1987 Congressional Record.
1. We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of you shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all-male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us.
1. We decree that our sons will not be sodomized. They will not be seduced in their schools, in their dorms, in their gymnasiums, in their locker rooms, in our sports arenas, in our seminaries, in their youth groups, in our movie theater bathrooms and in the Army bunk houses, at truck stops, at clubs and in our House of Congress. We decree our sons will become the minions of no man and that they have put on the new man, which is renewed in the knowledge after the image of Him that created them. We decree that they will desire, adore and obey only the Lord. (Col. 3:10; Psalm 38:9)2. Women, you cry for freedom. You say you are no longer satisfied with men; they make you unhappy. We, connoisseurs of the masculine face, the masculine physique, shall take your men from you then. We will amuse them; we will instruct them; we will embrace them when they weep. Women, you say you wish to live with each other instead of with men. Then go and be with each other. We shall give your men pleasures they have never known because we are foremost men too and only man knows how to truly please another man; only one man can understand the depth and feeling, the mind and body of another man.
2. As women, we decree that we are satisfied with our husbands, our fathers and our sons. They are a delight to us. We speak that our men will not be taken from us. They will not be amused, instructed or embraced by the unrighteous. As a wife, we shall be the satisfaction of our husband and say that what God has joined together no man will put asunder. As a daughter, we are the glory of our fathers. And in our motherhood, our sons shall rise up and call us blessed. (Proverbs 5:19; Matt.19:6; Proverbs 17:6; Proverbs 31:28)3. All laws banning homosexual activity will be revoked. Instead, legislation shall be passed which engenders love between men.
3. You think to change the laws but we decree the judgment shall sit and your dominion will be taken away. We curse ungodly legislation that engenders lust between men. We release the work of the Blood of Jesus Christ over our state laws banning gay adoptions. (Dan. 7:25)4. All homosexuals must stand together as brothers; we must be united artistically, philosophically, socially, politically, and financially. We will triumph only when we present a common face to the vicious heterosexual enemy.
4. We decree that the Lord is confounding your language that you will not understand one another. He is bringing your counsel to nought and your devices He is making of none effect. (Gen. 11:7; Psalm 2:4; Psalm 33:10)5. If you dare to cry faggot, fairy, queer, at us, we will stab you in your cowardly hearts and defile your dead, puny bodies.
5. We are calling no person fagot, fairy or queer, because we are not wrestling against flesh and blood, but we are keeping our warfare against principalities and powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places. (Eph. 6:12)6. We shall write poems of the love between men; we shall stage plays in which man openly caresses man; we shall make films about the love between heroic men which will replace the cheap, superficial, sentimental, insipid, juvenile, heterosexual infatuations presently dominating your cinema screens. We shall sculpt statues of beautiful young men, of bold athletes, which will be placed in your parks, your squares, your plazas. The museums of the world will be filled only with paintings of graceful, naked lads.
7. Our writers and artists will make love between men fashionable and de rigueur, and we will succeed because we are adept at setting styles. We will eliminate heterosexual liaisons through usage of the devices of wit and
6 & 7. We appropriate the work of the Blood of Jesus Christ over the "arts" (our playhouses, our cinemas and museums). We decree that unrighteous writers and artists will be confounded and troubled by the Lord. We declare that because mercy and truth are met together; and righteousness and peace have kissed each other that truth is springing out of the earth in our parks, our squares and our plazas. (Ps. 83:17; Ps. 85:10-11)8. We will unmask the powerful homosexuals who masquerade as heterosexuals. You will be shocked and frightened when you find that your presidents and their sons, your industrialists, your senators, your mayors, your generals, your athletes, your film stars, your television personalities, your civic leaders, your priests are not the safe, familiar, bourgeois, heterosexual figures you assumed them to be. We are everywhere; we have infiltrated your ranks. Be careful when you speak of homosexuals because we are always among you; we may be sitting across the desk from you; we may be sleeping in the same bed with you.
8. You boast of unmasking our homosexual presidents and their sons, our industrialists, our senators, our mayors, our generals, our athletes, film stars, television personalities, civic leaders and our ministers but it is their sins that will find them out. We speak that the goodness of God will bring them to repentance, and that His arm is not short to save them. (Nu. 32:23; Rom.2:4; Is.59:1)9. There will be no compromises. We are not middle-class weaklings. Highly intelligent, we are the natural aristocrats of the human race, and steely-minded aristocrats never settle for less. Those who oppose us will be exiled.
9. You boast of your status, speaking that you are highly intelligent, the natural aristocrats of the human race. God is not a respecter of persons; He resists the proud and gives grace only to the humble. (Acts 10:34; I Pet. 5:5)10. We shall raise vast, private armies, as Mishima did, to defeat you. We shall conquer the world because warriors inspired by and banded together by homosexual love and honor are as invincible as were the ancient Greek soldiers.
10. You say that you will rise up private armies as warriors to conquer the world. You say you are invincible. As the army of the Most High God, we say to you, the strongman of homosexuality, that with the high praises of God in our mouth and a two edged sword in our hands, we will execute vengeance and punishments upon you. We will decree your spiritual kings bound with chains and your nobles with fetters of iron and we execute upon you the judgments written in the Word of God. This is our honor as the saints of the Most High God. (Ps.149:6-9)11. The family unit spawning ground of lies, betrayals, mediocrity, hypocrisy, and violence will be abolished. The family unit, which only dampens imagination and curbs free will, must be eliminated. Perfect boys will be conceived and grown in the genetic laboratory. They will be bonded together in a communal setting, under the control and instruction of homosexual savants.
11.We decree that the family unit is a place where husbands love their wives as Jesus loves the church, where wives submit themselves unto their own husbands as unto the Lord; where fathers provoke not their children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. We decree that our children honor their fathers and mothers and because of this they live long lives and things go well with them. (Eph.5:22, 25; 6:4; Ex. 20:12)12. All churches who condemn us will be closed. Our only gods are handsome young men. We adhere to a cult of beauty, moral and esthetic. All that is ugly and vulgar and banal will be annihilated. Since we are alienated from middle-class heterosexual conventions, we are free to live our lives according to the dictates of the pure imagination. For us too much is not enough.
12. You say that all churches who condemn you will be closed, but the Lord says, that the gates of hell will not prevail against us. You say you are free to live your life according to the dictates of pure imagination, but we remind you IT IS WRITTEN, for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness. (Mt.16:18; Rom. 1:18)13. The exquisite society to emerge will be governed by an elite comprised of gay poets. One of the major requirements for a position of power in the new society of homoeroticism will be indulgence in the Greek passion. Any man contaminated with heterosexual lust will be automatically barred from a position of influence. All males who insist on remaining stupidly heterosexual will be tried in homosexual courts of justice and will become invisible men.
13.You speak of an emerging new society, but it is written that the way of man is not in himself. You say that you will bar us from places of influence but the Word says where God is for us there is nothing man can do against us. (Jer. 10:23; Rom. 8:31)14. We shall rewrite history, history filled and debased with your heterosexual lies and distortions. We shall portray the homosexuality of the great leaders and thinkers who have shaped the world. We will demonstrate that homosexuality and intelligence and imagination are inextricably linked and that homosexuality is a requirement for true nobility, true beauty in a man.
14.You boast of portraying great homosexual leaders and thinkers who have shaped the world, but God will lift your skirts over your face and show the nations your nakedness and the kingdoms your shame. You say that homosexuality is a requirement for true nobility, but it is written that those who are in Jesus Christ are kings and priests. (Na 3:3; Rev. 1:6)15.We shall be victorious because we are fueled with the ferocious bitterness of the oppressed who have been forced to play seemingly bit parts in your dumb, heterosexual shows throughout the ages. We too are capable of firing guns and manning the barricades of the ultimate revolution.
15.You believe you will be victorious because you are fueled with the ferocious bitterness of the oppressed, but we declare we will be victorious because we are more than conquerors through Christ Jesus who loves us. And in the end we will overcome you by the Blood of the Lamb, by the word of our testimony because we will love not our lives unto the death. (Romans 8:37; Rev. 12:11)16.Tremble, hetero swine, when we appear before you without our masks!
16.Tremble, strongman of homosexuality when you appear before god who is a consuming fire! (Hebrews 12:29