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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 08:51 AM Aug 2012

Gay Republicans Sell Us Down the River With Lies!

http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-08-29/columns/paul-ryan-is-a-queer-choice-Michael-Musto/

Just when you assumed gay self-loathing had been deposited in the dead-chicken bins, along comes a new wave of self-flagellation aimed to throw us under the hate truck. At a time when gays have made significant progress and other people are fully available to do all the hating, some gays crazily want to join in!

'm talking about the wave of gay Republicans who grovel before the enemy, making lavish excuses for politically repellent candidates—you know, the Romney/Ryan ticket—who would gladly turn us into a subordinate class without any semblance of full equality. There's no one more self-loathing than the oxymoronic "grubs" (gay Repubs) who rally to the defense of power-crazed bigots, spinning them as champions of decency and fairness who happen to be grossly misunderstood. No, wait, that's nothing new. For 30 years, there have been Log Cabin Republicans, though they at least try to work within the system to change the party's attitudes and have managed some good deeds here and there. But the pip-squeaks over at the more conservative group GOProud—who spun off from the Log Cabins—have only been organized since 2009, so their pigheaded attempts to sell us down the river still have a rank newness.

This is the organization that decided Paul Ryan was "a bold and inspired pick," a guy who can lead us back on "the road to fiscal solvency." (Oh, good! He can get us out of the mess set up by the last Republican administration.) They also cite his vote in favor of ENDA five years ago (though right before that, he'd joined a movement to kill it), as well as a couple of other gestures, completely leaving out his votes against hate crime protection and same-sex adoption and in favor of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and Defense of Marriage. This intently selective representation of someone who could shatter lives is like a paint-by-numbers portrait that leaves out the swastika. "Paul Ryan opposes discrimination against gay Americans," lied GOProud, shamelessly. And James Holmes is a patron of the arts!

Blogger Joe Jervis, from Joe. My. God, tells me: "There have always been people happy to sell out their own community in order to fill their pockets. The rise of GOProud, whose leaders are regularly trotted out by the media as circus curiosities ('antigay GAYS!'), was merely enabled by the Internet and by the unending content-starved 24/7 news cycle. GOProud and their ilk ghoulishly denounce the 'homo-fascist left' while enjoying the rights and privileges hard won by the literal blood and tears of their brothers."
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Pab Sungenis

(9,612 posts)
1. It doesn't take much self-loathing to become a Republican.
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 09:03 AM
Aug 2012

Look at how many of us LGBT*.* people are still Democrats when the conservatives running our party constantly insult us, marginalize us, or at best ignore us. The Republicans are just a little more vocal about it.

At some point LGBT*.* are going to have to get our act together, stop kowtowing to our straight "allies," and convert our numbers into political clout. It would be easier to do that in the Democratic Party, but until both gay Democrats and Log Cabiners start fighting back we're all just going to be self-loathing.

ZombieHorde

(29,047 posts)
2. Our orientation is biological, but it is also inherently meaningless.
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 09:24 AM
Aug 2012

There is no objective reason to differentiate between people of different orientations, just like there is no objective reason to differentiate between people born on odd dates versus even dates.

The differentiating is just meaningless tribalism started by straight people for reasons unknown to me.

"There have always been people happy to sell out their own community in order to fill their pockets."


All communities are imaginary. The abstract concept of communities is very convenient for conversation, and very useful for the art of persuasion, but that doesn't make communities real things.

The gay folks in GOProud are not traitors, they're just following their own set of subjective values and desires, which happen to be different than ours.
 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
3. The interesting thing about GOProud is, they continue on despite direct slaps to the face
Thu Aug 30, 2012, 09:56 AM
Aug 2012

Their organization has been thrown out of CPAC, denied speaking spots at conventions and various other slights directly and in their faces.

Still they persist in enabling the GOP.

 

Old Union Guy

(738 posts)
4. Rich guys who like low taxes and hate unions ...
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 09:56 PM
Sep 2012

... who don't give a sh*t about other people.

Who happen to be gay.

 

loli phabay

(5,580 posts)
5. yup every community covers the whole gamit of the political spectrum
Tue Sep 11, 2012, 01:25 AM
Sep 2012

as we all have issues that are our pet causes and we vote accordingly, however infuriating that might be.

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