Once upon a time, in a country we once knew, our gay and lesbian friends, family members, and co-workers fought a battle to come out of the closet and live like normal people. All they wanted was the ability to hold jobs, get married, raise families, and move about in society without being harassed.

“Stay out of our bedrooms!” was the rallying cry. The goal was to have people take no more notice or concern about their sexual preferences than about their eye color.

To the great credit of the “live and let live” credo that underlies American exceptionalism, it happened.

And then, the Woke Mind Virus struck.

Today, in a country we hardly recognize, armies of deranged pervert activists have taken their bedrooms into the public square. They demand that their alphabet soup of socially constructed identities, anchored in their increasingly bizarre sexual behaviors, be “affirmed.”

This campaign has successfully captured both academia and the medical community. Under the banner of DEI, they have penetrated right down through K-12 education, aggressively pursuing recruits to their way of life. Preying on the young, the vulnerable, and the confused, these activists are proud accessories to the amputation of thousands of healthy breasts and penises ghoulish surgeons gleefully chop off disturbed teenagers.

Welcome to Pride Month! MIT Press is honoring the occasion by featuring a selection of books that would make the Marquis De Sade blush.

Castle Faggot describes a playland for gay men “decorated with the corpses of gays – some were killed, some killed themselves, all ended up as décor.”

“Alone in his forest dwelling, an ogre had spent years building machines to force his visitors to make love to one another: machines with pulleys, chains, clocks, collars, leather leggings, metal breastplates, oscillatory, pendular, or rotating dildos.” This from The Screwball Asses.

“In Notice, readers find the teenaged narrator Nina turning tricks in the parking lot of the train station near the Westchester County home of her absent parents. She soon falls into a sadomasochistic relationship with a couple.”

All this and more from the university press of the world’s leading STEM research institute. Explaining why these books were published by MIT Press and not Al Goldstein is left as an exercise for the reader.