GQ: Mehlman not gay

[Carolab]

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=189

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[Carolab]

2. I don't think they covered that!

:D

[Dookus]

3. cute

I never get tired of hearing how much homosexuals love shoving rodents up their ass, based on a totally unfounded urban legend.

[saltpoint]

5. Mehlman's alleged gay life runs under the radar of --

-- his political influence. The Far Right denies that he is gay and he plays along. I fault him and them, not homosexuals.

I fault Mehlman because he hypocritically (is) gay yet very assertively arranges for anti-gay marriage initiatives to flood the polls in various states' elections.

I fault the Far Right generally because they pretend that GLBT people are not human beings and can therefore be manipulated and scorned -- even to the point of exclusion from basic liberties and rights enjoyed by straights -- and finally, ridiculed (Phelphs) and beaten to death along lonely Wyoming highways.

I'm sorry if it sounded like I had suddenly shifted to the right of the social/political spectrum and I will take pains to aovid it in the future.

Thanks for the heads-up, Dookus. I like your posts on DU and pay attention to them.

[piece sine]

9. hmmm...

not supressing our hatred of gay people very well today, are we?

[saltpoint]

24. Please consider my post #3.

You missed the point of my response, which is that I do not accept Mehlman's denial, that I believe he is a closeted gay man operating against the GLBT community for his own political profit and gain.

Hetereosexual men also have prostate glands, I believe.

[roguevalley]

4. of course he's not. (snicker) nothing here (heh-heh-heh) move along.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. So why did they have to publish an article denying it?

[annabanana]

7. hysterical article...

"there's one in every office"...ha

[Sperk]

8. what the hell is this supposed to mean?

A gay staffer also weighed jocularly into the article, saying that the number of gay Republicans in Congress is not small.

“There’s clearly a gay Republican mafia,” one gay staffer whom Rogers has targeted told Tapper. “There’s one in every office.”
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What the Hell's a "Gay Republican mafia"?!?!??!

[WildClarySage]

10. "Yes, we have Neeegros and Jewish People here, too.

And Women. Oh yes, lots of Women."

As long as they're desperately pandering...

[AntiCoup2K4]

16. Do they wear pinstriped lavender suits?

The gay republican mafia, that is.

[MNAZ]

11. So what if he is?

Threads like this make me sick. We supposed to be the party of all people.

[Vickers]

12. It ain't the kweer part, it's the hypocrisy

I dig homos, but not hypocrites...dig?

[MNAZ]

13. Yes it is the "kweer" part...

I bet you have some friends that are "kweer" right. Disgusting.

[Vickers]

19. Yeah, and they call themselves "queer"

:eyes:

Next lesson, O Wise One?

[Clark2008]

21. That they do, yes.

One of my close friends (who just moved far away from me :cry:) also calls himself the "house bitch" because he stays home and his partner (of 15 years) works.

It's the taking of negative words and using them in other contexts to strip them of the negative power. Period.

[Chelsea Patriot]

17. Your Tummy Aches? Like Melhman's banged-out * Sunday Mornings?

And, Entre Nous, Mlle.MNAZ , your slip is showing.

Once again, Your beloved "Royal We"...and, Doll, sentences need verbs to make grammatic sense.

You Queens give yourselves away each and every time.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

23. The derision of Mehlman here...

is not because of his possible queerness, it is becasue of our distain for any GOP member who is a closeted-queer and belongs to a party that would stone his ass if it could get away with it.

[stevedeshazer]

14. Who cares? He's still an idiot.

[drthais]

15. Gotta love that pic

Raw Story's splash of the GQ page
with Bush under the heading GAY REPUBLICANS

[AntiCoup2K4]

18. This is the part of the story I take offense to

Speaking of Mehlman: “If he’s now heterosexual, I’d like to know why he’s single at 38,”

So that's all it takes to be "gay" now is being single at 38? Well if that's the case, I want my god-damned toaster oven. Actually I could care less if some narrow minded right wing shitheads want to assume I'm homosexual just because I've had bad luck with psychotic women, but it's a damn big leap. As Henry Rollins once said after similar accusations "there's nothing wrong with being gay, and they know it."

They'll have a Hell of a time trying to tie me to any stereotypes though. Can't stand showtunes, hate shopping, and couldn't give two shits about how I dress most of the time. And if the Queer Eye guys saw my apartment, they would probably all have massive coronaries and die from the horror of it.

Not to mention that little matter of being attracted to women - or at least the non-psycho ones.

If this is all they have on Mehlman, maybe they should switch their focus to Drier or whoever.

[WI_DEM]

22. God I'm single and 40!!

I must be gay!!

[cestpaspossible]

20. Steve Schmidt makes the denial. And his track record for credibility

speaks for itself:

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct, 17 -- John F. Kerry accused President Bush of having a secret, second-term plan to privatize Social Security starting in January, telling a church audience Sunday that the idea is "a disaster for America's middle class."

-snip-

Steve Schmidt, a spokesman for Bush, said Kerry lifted a "made-up" quote from a reporter hostile to Bush "to make a false, baseless attack."
Kerry Warns of Social Security Changes