Blackcatter...I had a quiet smile at your statment equating me with "uppity black" haters in the sixties.

Perhaps I could tell a little story to show my real position.

Iv four boys (now men), whom I taught to respect people of all creeds and colours, and although surrounded by religious bigotry here in Scotland, they grew up fine people,and Im very proud of them.

During the 60s I joined the YCL and was involved in the UK civil rights issues.
I explained all about the civil rights movement and its heros and heroines to my oldest son Bruce and he seemed to develope more than a casual interest in Black equality.
After leaving school Bruce moved to work in a poor area of London , with a large black population. He had only been there a few weeks, when he wrote home complaining that he had been mislead. The blacks in London were as vicious and arrogant as the whites in America had been in the 60s. They would not speak other than to abuse,used their colour as a sign of superiority, and he was even spat upon in the street for being white,exactly the condition Little Hawk describes so well in his post,roles reversed,a different kind of hatred but just as corrosive.
Bruce got over his experience but idealism has now been replaced with a cynicism more suited to "us oldies".

This role reversal is what I dislike about the Gay Movement its now at the stage of Gay being Good and any other opinion a perversion...Ake