Author: Matthew Chen
Gay Men Should Control Their Own Speech Before Trying to Control Kolbe Bryant’s
You have probably heard about Kolbe Bryant, the great professional basket player of the Los Angeles Lakers, who supposedly uttered a horrifying “gay slur” at a referee. Mr. Bryant was fined $100,000 by the National Basketball Association for hate speech and being insensitive to gays.
Gay Censorship of Right-wing GOP Support for Gays….
The other day I posted an op-ed regarding how younger GOP operatives must go mum on their support for gay rights when they agree to work for older, prominent GOP candidates for high-profile offices. It’s called the “generational change” in the conservative Republican Party, where younger right-wingers support gay rights, but their boss does not.
Younger GOP Operatives at Odds with Candidates
It’s become a political truism to say that there is a generational divide with respect to gay rights, as polling data bears out the fact that younger voters, even conservatives, are far more in favour of same-sex marriage than their elders.
Unemployment Rising Again, Many Obama LGBT Supporters Deflated
To paraphrase Mark Twain, the three kinds of lies are lies, damn lies, and government statistics. Governments lie, particularly about economic stats in the middle of a recession and the Obama Bureau of Labor Statistics has refined misrepresenting our economic situation to a high art form.
Florida Doctors Dump Log Cabin GOP, Launch Successful New Gay GOP Group
In 2009, medical Dr. Ben Lewis-Bullard, founded a new decidedly right wing Gay Republican Club that became the 3rd largest GOP Club in Fort Lauderdale and Broward County, Florida.
Lt. Dan Choi at the National Right-Wing Festival
Lieutenant Dan Choi, who was discharged from the military for being gay, attended the premier right-wing national gathering known as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, DC. Much to Lt. Choi’s surprise he was well-received by most attendees whom he thought would reflexively reject him. He said so in video comments to gay talk show hosts and writers.