Hadrian's Rage

by Patricia-Marie Budd

  “What does this all add up to? Quite simply, that Hadrian citizens harbor a deep-seated hatred for heterosexuals. Hate may seem like a hard word to you, and I can tell by your facial expressions that many of you adamantly wish to deny the accusation. As much as you may want me to, I will not rescind my statement. Let me be perfectly clear; Hadrian citizens have been raised not only to disapprove of heterosexuals; we have been educated to hate them. We are actively and aggressively taught to hate heterosexuals. We are told to feel sorry for them, develop ways to reeducate them, and diminish their education and chances for advancement in life, leaving them to resort to menial, and often dangerous, labor. Nor do we deem them fit to serve in our military because they are perceived as aiding and abetting the enemy. Next come all the common hateful misrepresentations of the heterosexual. The women are selfish sluts, breeding humanity into extinction and having no regard for controlling pregnancy, willingly producing dozens of children each. It has even been cited that as recently as the twentieth century, it was common for families to have as many as ten or twenty children. While this may have been true at one time, it ceased to be the case for the First World countries by the end of the twentieth century.

  “What is not spoken of and kept from the educational files used to instruct our youth, however, is that by the late twentieth century, Planned Parenthood had been successfully implemented in what used to be the European Union, old Canada, and the United States of America. By the end of the twentieth century, the average family consisted of one to three children, no larger than those we produce in Hadrian. The only difference is that we ensure that each adult is responsible for one child, and only one child, to be born into Hadrian. In this way, we maintain a stable population, whereas these lost civilizations had no structure in place to avoid a diminishing rate of citizens. As a result, they had begun depending on immigration to increase their populations in a desperate attempt to create a workforce capable of funding the pensions of their aging citizens. Do not misunderstand me; I am not purporting the notion that human population was actually decreasing in the days of population expansion—an expansion that we know reached detrimental proportions. I cite this fact merely to show that heterosexuals can control the growth of population through Planned Parenthood, just like the one we have here in Hadrian.

  “Next I would like to address the issue of our attitudes towards male heterosexuals. These men, whom our society, along with female heterosexuals, says do not exist, do, in fact, exist and, like many of our bisexual and transgendered citizens, live a life of fear, resulting in anxiety, depression, and self-loathing. The first unfounded accusation against heterosexuals, men and women both, is that they choose to be straight. This is a misnomer, one the homosexual community, of all people, should understand. No one chooses to be gay, bisexual, or straight. We are born with our sexual orientation as was proved time and time again by the medical profession. One noted twentieth century medical practitioner, Dr. Kate O’Hanlan, provided what was then the American Medical Association with that very evidence. Allow me to quote her: ‘Sexual orientation and gender are congenital.’37 Now, many of Hadrian’s genetic scientists claim to have eradicated the heterosexual gene from human DNA, but, as was proven in the trial of my son, Frank Hunter, there are no guarantees when it comes to manipulating genes. Just as pure homosexuals are born into this country, so are pure heterosexuals. We must learn to accept our sons and daughters regardless of gender or sexual orientation.

  “One element of my research that I found both terrifying and fascinating is that the suicide rates amongst our heterosexual, bisexual, and transgender youth parallel those of the suicide rates of homosexuals living in those outside world countries that oppose homosexuality. Hadrian’s bisexual, transgendered, and straight youth are fourteen times more likely to attempt suicide as their gay and lesbian peers. These suicides are linked to the bullying incurred by their peers as a result of being heterosexual, or perceived as being heterosexual. These figures parallel ones I found on the wave citing suicidal tendencies about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youths in what used to be our old Canada. Listen to what this historical document states: ‘LGBT youth face approximately 14 times the risk of suicide and substance abuse than heterosexual peers.’38

  “I call upon you, the leaders of our great society, to initiate educational programs that will help raise future Hadrian citizens to be more loving and compassionate towards all who are born and raised here.

  “I would like to end my speech by quoting my mimi, my grandmother, founding mother Destiny Stuttgart. ‘When the five families came together to acquire and create the country of Hadrian, we agreed on a series of basic principles to act as the foundation of our governance. First and foremost, we needed an environment where LGBTI citizens from across the globe could live without fear of recrimination, persecution, or abuse. This cornerstone, we assure ourselves and those who choose to join us, including straight individuals as well, was founded on the principle of love, acceptance, and equality for all.’ What has happened to that founding ideal? Why do we no longer accept our bisexual, transgendered citizens, and why have we purposefully excluded and begun treating our heterosexual brothers and sisters in the very same manner our fellow LGBTI citizens were treated in the past and as many are still being treated in many outside world countries to this very day? As citizens of Hadrian, we need to rise above all forms of sexual bigotry and readopt our first principle: that we are all human beings regardless of race, religion, height, weight, and yes, gender and sexual orientation! I beseech you, listen to our founding mother.”

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  37 http://media01.commpartners.com/AMA

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  38 http://ontario.cmha.ca/mental-health/lesbian-gay-

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  Salve!

  Stop Pandering to the Strai Agenda!39

  HNN—Danny Duggin Reporting

  President Elena Stiles, Hadrian is disappointed in you! Why? might you ask. You are, after all, a genetic descendant of the Stiles founding family. But clearly, being a Stiles, or a Stuttgart for that matter, does not guarantee you will be a Hadrian patriot. My one apology to Gordon Stuttgart, who remains firmly entrenched in Conservative Right Politics. But back to you, Ms. Stiles; when the people of Hadrian elected you as our president four years ago, it was based on the understanding that you would continue to protect Hadrian’s founding principles and carry on with the good work of reforming our wayward bisexual youth.

  Instead, the first thing you did was to place strai sympathizer Jason Warith in charge of Hadrian’s Reeducation System, who after turning our reeducation base camps into summer camps, announced his resignation as head of Reeducation. That’s right, folks; the Golden Boy of Reeducation has just resigned because he’s strai! Good work, President Stiles; you really know how to pick ’em. And now, word is out that you are seriously considering dismantling the reeducation system. Where are these strai sympathies coming from?

  So, now that our reeducation system is in shambles, you propose to break your own Anti-Strai Propaganda Law, a law you signed into our constitution shortly after your inauguration, by funding educational changes that will allow our teachers to teach our youth about what it means to be strai. Well, the world already knows what it means to be strai. It means overpopulation and the inevitable polluting and destruction of our planet to accommodate twenty billion human beings. This is something Hadrian stands opposed to and must always stand opposed to!

  Yes, I agree! Sorry, Hadrian; my production manager wisely reminds me to get back to the topic of Stiles threatening to dismantle the Anti-Strai Propaganda Law that strictly regulates the indoctrination of our youth by heterosexuals. Elena Stiles was recently quoted as saying the Conservative Right browbeat her into making this law. Well, I think it is time the Conservative Right really does do some browbeating. We need to
browbeat President Stiles right out of office, making room for someone like Cooper Johnston, whose political campaign not only will maintain the Anti-Strai Propaganda Law, but return us to the day when being heterosexual was itself a crime, punishable by exile, and when all wayward youth who foolishly act on opposite sex attractions are reeducated for their benefit and the benefit of Hadrian!

  The question that remains on the minds of every Hadrian patriot is why, and how, a founding family member becomes a turncoat? Not only has this happened to our President, but also, it is clear our founding mother, Destiny Stuttgart, heavily influences her. Mother Stuttgart, who is now, I’m sure, well over ninety, is clearly senile. Rather than take her ramblings seriously, we should be showing the old woman compassion and sympathy; she clearly needs proper medical care rather than the caregiving provided by her grandson, another out and proud strai! No doubt, Dean Stuttgart is the very root of all that is causing our government to betray our founding principles, the four cornerstones upon which our good country is based. We must never forget that ours is a nation intrinsically opposed to heterosexual propagation! To accept strais and bisexuals into our fold would only result in exasperating the world population and pollution problems the heterosexual barbarians have inflicted upon our earth!

  So, then, why would two of our most respected founding family members turn on their country this way? After some work by HNN’s research department, we discovered that President Stiles’s leanings toward the strai agenda began with the death of little Fredrick Mustonen.40 Being but four years old and suffering abuse at the hands of his mother because she feared he might be strai, she beat him to death; clearly, this was a case to pull at the heartstrings of all Hadrian citizens’ hearts. But little Fredrick was the victim, not Hadrian. The woman who committed this heinous crime was sentenced to exile, but she wisely chose to drink Black Henbane. May little Fredrick rest in peace, but it is truly horrible to use his little death as a means to manipulate our citizens into feeling sympathy for all strais.

  And, of course, there is the recent murder of Tara Fowler, an out strai at Augustus Uni, who actively fought for equal rights for strais as well as for the freedom for strais to marry and propagate at will. I am sorry she was murdered, as are all of Hadrian’s citizens, but her death would never have occurred had Elena Stiles not encouraged strais to be out in the open, offending the sensibilities of Hadrian patriots, threatening to undermine the cornerstone that identifies our country as homosexual. And we all know what happens when one cornerstone collapses—the whole structure collapses. Under the old laws, Tara Fowler would have been picked up and placed in reeducation where she would have learned to love and embrace the only true loving expression, but instead, she was allowed to strut her heterosexual stuff and threaten Hadrian’s homosexual lifestyle.

  This brings us to the critical question: Where do we go from here? Do we reelect President Stiles, knowing full well her sympathies lie with strais, or do we look for new blood to come in and make Hadrian strong again? That new blood, though not having founding family genes running through his veins, has Hadrian’s best interests at heart. Cooper Johnston promises to restore Hadrian to its former glory, fighting against the heterosexual barbarians and building this nation towards a better and brighter future.

  Vale!

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  A Social Experiment41

  Siddhartha Seshadri, Prasert Niratpattanasai, and Prasert’s little sister, Kendra Schmidt (siblings seldom have the same last name since each child takes his or her genetic parent’s last name), have decided to set up a little social experiment. Hadrian’s historical archives are filled with vids and documents from the past, detailing the horrific crimes humanity committed against the gay community before the creation of Hadrian, and just last week, Sid found an old video shot by two men in Russia, dated circa 2015. The two men who created this video wanted to show the world just how horrible homophobia was in Russia at that time. And what the video revealed was pretty upsetting, evidencing why so many gay couples came together to create a safe haven in Hadrian. Even so, Sid found it sad, too, that what he was watching from years gone by was the very same as what he was witnessing today in his own country, except this time attitudes were reversed. In Hadrian, heterosexuals were reviled for being the “breeders” and “polluters of the planet.” When he showed the old vid to Prasert, they both agreed a similar experiment needed to be done in Hadrian, on the streets of Augustus, and so Prasert, who had shared his bisexual identity with his little sister, found himself asking whether she would be willing to participate.

  “Why me? Why not one of your straight friends?”

  “Well, the two men in the Russian video were straight and their goal was to show Russia and the rest of the world just how homophobic their country was. I think we should use the same idea—have two homosexuals walking together like a straight couple—”

  Kendra cuts him off. “Yeah, but the two guys in the vid are holding hands. Everybody in Hadrian holds hands. That just means you’re friends. It won’t work.”

  “True.” Prasert has to admit Kendra is right. Everyone holds hands in Hadrian. It denotes friendship. No one ever questions when a man and a woman are holding hands. More likely than not, two walking in such a manner are family or close friends. But that is not the same when it comes to two people walking arm-in-arm.

  When Prasert brings up this point, Kendra ejaculates, “No way! That’s gross.” It takes a moment for Prasert’s facial expression to sink in before Kendra realizes just how hurtful her sudden turn of phrase is. “I’m sorry, Prasert. I didn’t mean to be so insensitive.”

  Prasert tries to swallow his disappointment, but he is still hurt. “That’s all right. It just goes to show how deeply rooted Hadrian’s prejudices are when your own sister can cut you to the quick without even realizing it.”

  This response cuts Kendra to the quick. “You’re right, Prasert. I just blurt out an emotional response without any consideration to you or your friends. I’m sorry. How can I make it up to you?”

  Prasert smiles. Kendra knows exactly what he is going to say. “By participating in Hadrian’s version of a little social experiment.”

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  The following morning, Kendra and Sid bravely wrap arms around each other. The physical contact denoting affection for someone of the opposite sex is foreign to both, but their intellectual understanding of the experiment allows both to overcome the oddity of the moment. Directing her attention to the back of Prasert’s turban where he has adeptly hidden the small camera, Kendra giggles. “I can’t believe we’re actually using one of those archaic video devices.”

  “Hey,” Sid reminds her, “some students need them. We can’t all afford expensive vocs.”

  “No,” Kendra agrees, “but a good voc cam records ten times better than that old thing.”

  “And how obvious would that be with Prasert walking backwards just to film us? You can’t hide a voc cam in the back of a turban, now can you?” Kendra concedes the point and Sid shouts for Prasert to begin.

  The couple walks casually through the Uni Park, taking a moment to enjoy the flowers, cross the small bridge over the babbling creek, as well as do a little bird watching, every movement calculated to reflect a young couple in love. It doesn’t take long for the experiment to unveil some of the more guarded prejudices people hold. The people they pass begin to stop and stare. Someone even calls out to his friends, “Hey, look—it’s a couple of strais!”

  Laughter follows and someone else shouts, “You sick fucks don’t belong here.” “Yeah,” another voice adds. “Leave Hadrian, why don’t cha?”

  And then someone purposely bumps into Sid. This happens a few more times, with men slamming into Sid’s
shoulder and women slamming into Kendra’s. Suddenly, someone grabs Kendra and shoves her aside. The next thing Sid knows, a man twice his size in both height and weight has shoved his face up against his nose and started yelling, “What the fuck are you doing here, strai?” Much of the abuse blurs in Sid’s ears, but Prasert catches it all on cam. Prasert’s first instinct is to turn around and help his lover, but Kendra manages to extract Sid from a potentially volatile situation, so Prasert turns away again to continue capturing the event for posterity.