Nina Burleigh| Satan's in the Stall Beside Me

[Demeter]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nina-burleigh/satans-in-the-stall-besi_b_62474.html


The demise of mountain state Republican Senator Larry Craig amuses those of us who enjoy watching right-wing heroes crash to the ground, spiked on their own hypocrisy. It further confirms my theory: prick any conservative and the kink oozes out. The rockier the rib, the more likely you'll find pink lingerie under the trousers or a bullwhip and manacles in the bedside drawer. You can bet those Beltway dominatrices, madams and escorts (gay and straight) have been able to buy second homes -- maybe even in Sun Valley! -- with their haul during W's reign.

However, because we are people of compassion, we should also feel a little horrified by this tortured man's sad, humiliating demise. He's obviously lived his whole life afflicted by the religious psychobabble and outright bigotry of people who say homosexuality is a sickness and a lifestyle decision instead of an innate state of being that has nothing to do with illness or choice.

...The trouble with this wedge issue, as everyone now knows, is that it's Republican suicide. The hateful public stance of the party has driven its many gay members into ever more contorted acts of self-loathing excess, driving the disease of suppression out in the open and subjecting men to public stoning by their own frenzied followers.

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When I was covering Capitol Hill just before Clinton's impeachment, every other young, spiffily manicured male staffer I met in Republican Congressional offices was at least androcentric, if not obviously gay. I don't have a sensitive gay-dar, but there was something about them. Ties never askew, hair immaculately groomed, cuffs gleaming, they usually knew more about my shoes than I did.

Bill Clinton's voracious heterosexuality had as much to do with drawing their rabid hatred as any of his other attributes. He loved women too much, and if only he'd given equal time and effort to seducing those beautiful men, he might have saved himself some trouble.

[Felix Mala]

1. What I hate are the conservative commentators smug snickering about "gay" lifestyle...

Michelle Malkin on Faux News was giddy about learning the "facts" about how "gay men" conduct courtship with tapping feet and hand gestures in public restrooms. I wanted to dive into the TV and throttle her. I'm gay and I've never gone to a public place for sex. I've never used hand gestures to talk to another gay man. The only people I hear of going to public restrooms are men trying to sneak around on their otherwise "straight lifestyle" to mess around with other poor closeted bastards.

This just gives the self-righteous right another set of tools with which to attack gay people. They shamelessly use one of their own to do.