ABSTRACT
The modern, post-liberation gay, especially if influenced by queer theory, is more likely to dismiss ethical issues outright or project them onto politics alone. The latter outlook, which arrived earlier on the modern scene, for political reasons and because it was never especially gay spiritual but often just materialistic, did not cultivate introspection but chose rather to stress social sameness except for the sexual difference. Though gay philosophers do exist, much gay philosophy, and likewise ethics, is implicit. Any noteable gay ethics statement will require coming to terms with an essentialist difference, the realization that as regards one crucial binary homosexuality is quite simply the variation upon the heterosexual theme. Although gays may start from a different place from straights and will of psychological necessity often end up in different places, the ethical meeting ground for those of heterosexual and homosexual sexual orientations is the necessary role of love in all human relations.
