Gay Liberation at a Psychological Crossroads: A Commentary on the Future of Homosexual Ideology

In this four-part talk, gay activist, psychologist and scholar Mitch Walker forthrightly challenges the assimilationist tenor of today’s gay liberation movement as ultimately sterile, proposing that an alternative, psychological direction is necessary to complement social acceptance or else same-sex-loving emancipation cannot become complete. Presenting an unprecedented psychological, political and spiritual vision about the sacred value of homosexual love, personhood and individuation, he argues that to better actualize such divinity requires reaching for a new psychological literacy that can more effectively face the toxic “shadow-side” of the homosexual psyche, and he describes a gay-centered synthesis of psychoanalytic and Jungian methods for further resolving terrible consequences of internalized homophobia in the service of markedly enhanced homosexual liberation, self-realization, community vitalization and perhaps pivotal contributions to humanity’s future survival.