A great human being recently passed away - Frank Kameny, who was one of this country's leading gay rights activists and if he didn't invent the phrase - GAY IS GOOD - he personified
what it meant. He led the battle to strike down the federal government's policy of dismissing any and all openly gay men and women and was a key strategist in the gay rights movement long before the Stonewall riots in NYC in 1969.
The Washington Blade, an excellent local weekly newspaper, published an lengthy account of
Kameny's life and accomplishments in moving forward the gay rights' movement. In the same issue, there was an announcement that Ann Coulter, the darling of the conservative right wing of the Republican Party, was going to appear in an upcoming episode of the Logo TV cable network's
"A-List: Dallas" series along with Jimmy LaSalvia, the executive director of GOProud.
I've never heard of GOProud, but I am guessing that it is similar to the Log Cabin organization which is comprised of gay conservative Republicans who claim to be moderate on social issues but extremely conservative on fiscal matters as they relate to federal and state governments.
Frankly, I don't know how any conscientious homosexual could belong to such a group. I'd like to think that Frank Kameny would feel the same way. I don't understand how gay men and women can vote for Republican party candidates and claim to be strong advocates for equal rights for all minority groups - of which gays are one - in this country. It seems to me that like many of my wealthy Jewish friends and even a few of my well off Afro-American acquaintances,
they have forgotten their roots and the long and difficult struggle to achieve equality in racist America and vote instead to maintain their 401ks and stock investments.
In truth, most couldn't care less about issues that impact on the clear majority of Americans
who are just getting by financially, most likely living from paycheck to paycheck, if, indeed, they are fortunate to have jobs. I don't know about you, but very few of my friends subscribe to and read daily the Wall Street Journal.
Stock investments. Are you fucking serious? Give me a break.
Like many other liberal Democrats, I have been deeply disappointed in Barak Obama, although the problems he inherited from that prick he succeeded in the White House, have no easy solutions. At the same time, the total lack of cooperation in the House and U.S. Senate by Republican members has made it virtually impossible for him to confront and resolve those issues before us.
Still, I'd vote for Donald Duck before pulling the lever for any of the current Republican candidates. The most intelligent one - John Huntsman - stands the least chance of gaining the nomination to run against Obama. Every other Republican candidate
opposes gay marriage. And every single one of these assholes chose to remain silent when at a recent debate a gay soldier asked if they would support the repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Not one of them stood up for this serviceman when he was booed by the mostly conservative Tea Party audience.
Which brings me back to the Log Cabin political group, GOProud and that bitch, Ann Coulter
appearing on Logo's "A-List: Dallas" series.
I must admit to an aversion to the series, not being able to watch "A-List: New York" for more than 10 minutes before hitting my tv remote. The queers on this show are mostly narcissistic,
inarticulate, self-absorbed and shallow.
Come to think of it, the whole damn bunch of them, including Ms. Coulter, deserve each other.
That's the way I see it.
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