Oh So Soft Straight Soldiery

During a radio broadcast, Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association declares that Hitler was gay -- and also possibly that Eva Braun was a fag hag -- but also that, contrary to generations of relentlessly unfunny mean-spirited right-wing stereotypes depicting lisping fairies in pink chiffon uniforms squealing in the face of enemy fire and skulking about among the shower stalls, now, apparently, the right-wing fantasy of the queer soldier is one "who ha[s] no limits [in terms of] the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict on whomever Hitler sent them after," as against straights who lacked the requisite "savage[ery] and brutal[ity] and viscious[ness]" of The Gay.

Fischer does have the decency to concede that the Nazis actually ruthlessly persecuted homosexuals (the lgbtq Pink Triangle derives from the badge over fifty thousand gay folks wore in Nazi concentration camps), but presumably his own acquaintance with many self-hating closeted gay evangelical Republicans in positions of influence within political movements dedicated to anti-gay bigotry has made it easy to reconcile the paradoxical fantasy of queer folks as at once the victims of the Nazis' genocidal rage and yet also somehow the elite apex of their ferocious masculinist militarist order. True, it does seem a bit odd that Fischer's argument seems to impute a sort of effeminacy to straight soldiers in their straightness, but I'm sure that only his therapist, or possibly his hairdresser, really knows for sure what he is thinking here.

I will say that I have been rather nervous watching the slow unfolding of the effort at DADT repeal -- fearing yet another Lucy and the football fakeout like everybody else -- and especially so given the lackadaisical attitude of our so-called "fierce advocate" in the White House... But when this full-throated fantasy freakout about hypermasculine homos in SS uniforms fellating innocent straights from the plain states was unleashed across the reactionary right I began to think maybe this modest righteous popular harmless sensible repeal of a cruel and pointless discriminatory policy really is going to happen for real this time around, else these loons wouldn't be losing their lunches over the thing like this.