Highly recommended. Kindle ebook, £3.44.
There isn’t a description of the book on Amazon.co.uk, so herewith the one from Amazon.com:
TRIGGER WARNING!
If you are a gay man who also supports feminism, this book may be the toughest (and most worthwhile) read of your life.
In “The New Gay Liberation: Escaping the Fag End of Feminism” social commentator Matthew Lye, aka Andy Bob, rips the cover off of feminism’s false pro-gay front to reveal Westboro Baptist Church level hostility toward gay men that has burned through feminist rhetoric for 40 years.
And he documents how that hatred is alive and well today.
At a little over a hundred pages, this book is a brief but devastating indictment of feminism’s bogus claim to support the gay community.
Reading it, if you are gay and feminist, might turn your whole world upside down.
Here’s the forward by David Palmer.
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
-Benjamin FranklinI’m a gay man.
I am not a feminist.
There’s a shocking statement. How could any gay man not need, want, support, affirm feminism?
To be fair, I was a feminist for years. I remained a feminist while phrases like “Old white guy”, “Cishet guy”, and “Male privilege” made their way into the lexicon. I remained a feminist while straight men were demonized by feminism-because, of course, I wasn’t “one of them”. I remained a feminist while GLBT became LGBT. I remained a feminist for years.
Over time, however, I found myself, with ever increasing frequency, in the position of feeling that I had to use my sexual orientation to defend myself in conversations with feminists, and feeling as if I were a “token” male, only acceptable to feminists because of my orientation.
Of course I made all the excuses: “not all feminists are like that”, “well, that’s not real feminism” and so on – until I began to actually take the time to learn about feminism.
What I learned surprised me. I learned that feminism was not about equality. I learned about the feminist history of hatred toward gay men. And eventually, I learned that feminism was actively engaged in a campaign that was doing to all men what others have so often done to gay men: demonize them as sexual predators and abusers in the interests of their own power and their own ideology.
Feminism wasn’t about equality: It was about bigotry.
During the course of that journey, that red pill trip from feminist to anti-feminist, if you will, I had the good fortune to encounter many people. I found men and women, all sorts of them, who cared about the issues facing men and boys and who spoke out about those issues despite feminist efforts to slander and silence them.
AndyBob is one of those people.
In “Why Gay Men Don’t Need Feminism”, AndyBob has, in many ways, written a part of my own journey, and the history of the relationship between feminism and gay men. He has written it far better than I would have done. He has provided, in a single place, much of the information I found over the years about feminism, feminist history, and the homophobia underlying much of feminist thought. He has destroyed feminism’s false façade of “it’s about equality” and has given a clear, articulate explanation of why gay men not only do not “need” feminism, but why they should reject feminism outright.
He has also done much more than that. What he has written is not only a well thought out, well researched, and well-supported discussion of the history of feminism. It’s a foundation, a basis for change, a reason to end the divisive ideological rhetoric that seeks to separate gay and straight men from one another-for the benefit of others. It teaches us that men, all men, need to come together, to work together, as men, to address our common concerns.
And it also serves as a warning. In the face of a mindset that sees all men as a threat, and sees all men as “the enemy,” that Mr. Franklin was right.
Justice for Men & Boys 
I can’t help asking aloud whether there’s a double entendre in ‘fag end of feminism’ and wondering how that squares with ‘gay liberation’.
That aside, and much more seriously, I’ve been saying for years that gay men are men and face the same institutional discrimination as non gay men. Gay men have nothing to gain from an alliance with feminists. ‘Straight’ men are their natural allies.
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I think we can be very sure the double entendre is deliberate!
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As a man and a therapist working with all sorts men, I have seen the erosion of male identity over the past 25 years. Masculinities Studies in academia have made masculinity a pathology! In other words, our academic institutions are promoting anti-male education, which is confusing so many young men who don’t want to be viewed as aggressive, angry, and violent, so they are taught to reject their masculinity out of shame and fear. The masculinities studies departments are being headed by feminist women and gay men who are in denial of their masculine selves. Psychologically, feminism is not about honoring women, it’s about destroying masculinity.
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Thanks Daniel. Feminism is the pursuit of female supremacy, and the destruction of masculinity is one of its key objectives. I shudder whenever I hear or read the word ‘maculinities’.
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feminism has been, is and always will be about maximum benefits for women – and no one else.
it only hides under the cover of ‘equality’ rhetoric..
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I’m (just) old enough to remember when gay men were gay men and lesbians were lesbians and rarely the twain would meet – long before we somehow got removed from “Gay Lib” and lumped in and expanded in scope to being LGBTQ+*$£ABRhesusNegative or whatever it is now. I remember very well indeed thank you that we fought our own battles and with absolutely no assistance from the feminist movement of the time. The N.U.M. did more for the status of gay men than feminists ever thought of doing.
I think it’s the same old story, with the highly vocal, highly visible tiny minority within a minority claiming representation of the whole. Most gay blokes, the ones you never hear about, the ones who just get on with life, are just men who are attracted to men – they don’t love shopping, they don’t crave the company of women for its own sake, couldn’t give a sh*t about women’s fashion and you wouldn’t be able to pick ’em out in a line-up even if they played Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive in the background.
it IS odd how the “L” has somehow migrated to the fore of this strange new collection of disparate interests, possibly much in the way that the sentiment “Children and women first” to the lifeboats somehow became an international maritime law of “Women and children first”. Perhaps that indicates who is driving this myth. Being lesbian has never drawn the legal and social opprobrium that being homosexual has, and that’s why lesbians have never been as vocal or as visible as gay men. I’m not even certain that feminists consciously courted lesbians, they just got entangled because they conflated an absence of attraction to men with their own feminist hatred of men.
Maybe in the eyes of the London/etc glitterati gay men and feminism have always been in bed together, but as far as my five-decades’ experience of the shires and of the real world goes, gay men and feminists are chalk and cheese and always have been. This fabled “link” is, in my view, nothing but PR and spin from the feminists, and the sooner they ditch it and show their bloodied teeth in this regard in public, the better.
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