Just something I've noticed over the last couple of years and I wonder if anyone else has, too. Historically speaking, the gay community or, should I say, some of its communities, have been reknowned for their sexual freedom and absence of any form of judgement when it comes to the private lives of others. Indeed, if you look at such historical figures in the gay movement, such as Jean Genet, they revelled in the title of being referred to as "sexual outlaws", so I guess many of our folk would have found it somewhat hypocritical to cast pronouncements on the sexual mores and tastes of others.
However, just by speaking to some gay friends and by reading a number of articles and comments in the gay press, I've noticed a cultural shift in gay circles where the homos seem to be clammering to be more puritanical than the last! Bareback fucking is a definite taboo for many of the gays that I speak to but, more than that, I'm noticing a general intolerance emerging to those who use hook-up sites such as bbrt and Grindr; check out some of the comments to this article: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/04/10/comment-addicted-to-grindr/
It would appear that those who sit in judgement of us MANY users of such facilities see us as shallow and an underbelly to be castigated. These judgemental homos seem so keen to become assimilated into the wider, heterosexual theatre that they are all too willing to tread on their fellow gays that don't want to comform, that don't want to apologise, that want to take cock and fuck arse and want to feel nothing other than pride in doing so. I think we, as a community, need to reclaim that identity in being different from heteros, to refuse any equality that might come our way so long as we pretend to be like the other "nice" straight automatons out there, stop referring to our parades as generic "Mardis Gras", but return to the title of "Pride", and, like Genet, jealously guard out title as "sexual outlaws". If others don't like the way we fuck, then fuck them! Rant over - apologies, but needed to get this off my chest, lol!