New World Order Discussion

Author: Tracy E. Ore, 2002, A Guided Fantasy

1. If you are a heterosexual, imagine what it means to be heterosexual in a society where homosexuality and bisexuality are the natural order of things. If you are a lesbian, gay man, or a bisexual person, imagine how your world would change now that you are in the majority and your sexuality is the norm. Try to mentally describe this new context in which you are placed.
2. Imagine that you wake up one morning and your roommates/housemates are lesbians, gay men, or bisexual people. How do you feel about them? What kinds of feelings do you pick up from them? How do people where you live react to your sexual orientation?
3. Look at your schools…all of your teachers are lesbians, gay men or bisexual people, the principals are lesbians…the coaches for team sports are all lesbians and gay men. The main people you learned about throughout school are lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people and their achievements…the inventors, the fighters, the positive people in our lives—all lesbians, gay men, or bisexual people. Occasionally, someone will point out the “rare exception of a heterosexual” who made a positive contribution to our society. What does this world look like? How does it make you feel? As a heterosexual…or as a lesbian, gay man, or a bisexual person? Does it tell you anything about yourself?
4. Think of it always being this way, every day of your life. Feel the overwhelming presence of lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people and feel the non-presence of heterosexuals. Heterosexuals seem to be hidden. You hear stories about what breeders do, but it’s laughed at, snickered about. How does this feel? What does it tell you about the importance and value of being a lesbian, gay man, or a bisexual person…or of being a heterosexual?
5. Recall that most of the stories on radio and most of the stories on TV relate to lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people—when important events are covered, on commercials, on the late night talk shows they are mostly about lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people.
6. Notice that your government is headed completely by lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people. You have no heterosexual senator representing you in Washington, The President is a gay man. The Secretary of State is a lesbian. The head of the Pentagon is a bisexual person. In fact, remember back to the time that a heterosexual once ran for vice-president and how much that shook up every one? Remember how they asked questions about what values she might spread? What was this going to do to American values? Does the world look different, act different? How does this make you feel as a lesbian, gay man, or a bisexual person? As a heterosexual?
7. Feel what it is like that lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people are the leaders, the power centers, the prime movers. As you grow up, you are taught that heterosexuals are evil and unnatural, that all they are interested in is sex, and that they will molest children. What does this tell you about the importance of being a lesbian, gay man, or a bisexual person? About the role of heterosexuals?
8. Feel what its is like as your elected representatives sign legislation that forbids the affirmation of the “heterosexual lifestyle” in the public schools and as your president, a gay man, signs the Defense of Values Act, restricting heterosexuals from the right to marry or receive the privileges that marriage brings…
9. Then think further, about the lessons you receive, in school, through life, through friends and family members, through our religious institutions. The sin of Adam and Eve. The reasons why the major religions condemn a man lying with a woman. How does this feel to learn that the obvious natural way to be is a lesbian, gay man, or a bisexual person. Anyone who is heterosexual must have had a trauma in their life, that heteros are mentally ill. How does this make you feel as a lesbian, gay man, or a bisexual person? As a heterosexual?
10. Recall that you are taught that by nature that lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people are superior, higher evolved than heterosexuals. You are taught that you are not a “whole person” unless you have a same sex partner. What does this tell you about growing up as a lesbian, gay man, or a bisexual person? As a heterosexual?
11. Of course, as you grow up, it’s natural to have some confusions about your identity. To question some of these strict messages we have been taught. You struggle with the roles that are defined for you as a lesbian, gay man, or a bisexual person by society. If a person denies their feelings of homosexuality or bisexuality, they are told that they can be “cured”. Therapy is recommended to help them adjust to their true nature. Of course, therapy is administered by a gay man, who has the education and wisdom to know what is best for you. How does this feel to you?
12. Remember kids at school making fun of “Breeders” and “Heteros” …
13. Because of the raging anger and shame of the heteros, they learn to “pass”, dating someone of the same sex so as to avoid ridicule and to “prove” to themselves that they can be lesbians, gay men or bisexuals…
14. You are who you are in this society. Your sexual orientation has defined these lifestyle issues for you. When you look around you, it is reinforced everywhere…in your books, on television—all the shows, advertising for every product from toothpaste to deodorant. It seems that there is no escaping the fact that lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people are the power centers, the people controlling the world and heterosexuals are to be condemned. How does this feel? What does this tell you about your place as a lesbian, gay man, or a bisexual person? As a heterosexual?
15. Sit and experience this for a few minutes. Reflect on your feelings, on what you saw around you. Keep your eyes closed, just concentrate on this vision of the new world.

1. What was your first reaction to the reading? Why do you think you felt this way?
2. What did you like about this new world?
3. What made you uncomfortable?
4. Discuss how any one of the institutions mentioned might change for you in this new world.