Is there any such animal? Gay AND Conservative?

[snowbear]

Help!

I was on a sports forum that I go to, and some rightwing wacko (who was discussing a sports team) responded to someone with ....."the idiot must be a liberal because there's no such thing as a gay conservative!"

I'm not part of that conversation (yet ;) ), but I'm so sick to death of this guy bashing liberals that....

...you guessed it.. I'd LOVE more than ANYTHING to whip out a name of someone who actually is considered to be a gay conservative.

Is it a losing cause? :o Is "gay conservative" an oxymoron, or is there a name I can zap the idiot with that might shut his trap up? }(

Thanks for any help! :)

[Arkana]

1. The Log Cabin Republicans are a group of gay conservatives.

However, I think they're just a bunch of self-hating wackos.

[jedr]

16. I know some of them;

they made some money during the Clinton years and thought they were rich enough to be repubs...but they still hang on...to my experience 10% of the population is gay and fall that way across the board on every issue.

[acmejack]

2. Log Cabin Republicans

http://www.logcabin.org/logcabin/home.html

[snowbear]

5. Thanks you two.. any names that stand out?

Just need one name to (maybe) shut this jerk up ;)

[donco6]

17. The LCR tend to be socially liberal, however.

Fiscally conservative, but socially liberal.

They favor gay marriage, for instance. But they are all for big tax cuts for the rich.

[Chan790]

20. If you want to make him have to look someone up...

there is always David Catania the openly (and self-described "flamboyantly") gay city councilman and former chair of the District of Columbia GOP.

[MuseRider]

3. Log Cabin Republicans?

He has never hear of them?

http://online.logcabin.org/

[Walt Starr]

4. Andrew Sullivan

Jeff Gannon (aka James Guckert)
Congressman Drier.

[immoderate]

6. Andrew Sullivan, Rep David Drier

come to mind.

--IMM

[SharonRB]

7. Jeff Gannon

[SharonRB]

8. Ken Mehlman

[yankeedem]

39. Ed Shrock

J. Edgar Hoover

[snowbear]

9. OMG... you guys ROCK !!!!!!!!

Log Cabin Republicans! =Doh!!= I didn't think of them.

Congressman Drier ....Really? :o Man, I need to keep up with the times!

What about that idiot mayor of Tacoma?

[NMDemDist2]

10. Andrew Sullivan, Jeff Gannon, Mary Cheney, Ken Mehlman to name

just a few high profile gay conservatives.

Mehlman is the freaking Chair of the National Party (RNC)

[never_get_over_it]

11. Isn't Ken Melman

head of RNC suppose to be gay

[LittleClarkie]

12. Sadly, yep

Andrew Sullivan for one. Mary Cheney for another.

[Catherine Vincent]

13. To Walt, Sharon and ArizonaDem...

Jeff Gannon says he is bi-sexual and I really don't think he's conservative, imo.

[SharonRB]

22. He may be bi, but he's got to be conservative -- he's, forgive

the expression, in bed with the Repukes.

[mimitabby]

14. Spokane Mayor Jim West

uh, he's conservative, but he won't be mayor for a lot longer!
god forgives him!

[Beaverhausen]

15. Mary Cheney

[NewJeffCT]

18. Lindsay Graham

Another in-the-closet gay conservative.

[rox63]

24. Really?

I hadn't heard about Graham.

Being a gay conservative must require a hefty does of self-loathing.

[NewJeffCT]

33. supposedly

Supposedly, Laura Ingraham said she was dating him as a cover so they wouldn't question his masculinity in ultra-red South Carolina.

[skipos]

19. about 25% of gays voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004

according too CNN exit polls.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html

[me b zola]

34. I think that those are important and telling poll numbers

One of the biggest fallacies being perpetrated upon us is that the republicans are dominated by fundies, when in fact they are but only a portion of their party.

I want to pull my hair out when it is suggested that the people that we want to win over to vote Dem are those ultra social conservatives who believe that religion should play a role in government. I say hogwash. It is the voters who believe that they are voting for fiscal responsibility when they vote repub that we need to appeal to. Not by changing our domestic policies to look like repubs, but to show those voters how Democratic policies are better for our economy and their own wallets.

[snowbear]

21. I love you guys.... I love you guys.... I love you guys!

OMG, I'm going to have a hay day!

By the way... if I forgot to tell you... I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!! :kick: :yourock: :headbang: :grouphug:

[SharonRB]

23. We love you more

Go get 'im.

[-..__...]

25. Possibly the "Pink Pistols"

http://www.pinkpistols.org

I'm not 100% certain.

On the flip side, there are liberals who refuse to believe that they are conservative blacks: Alan Keyes, Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell...

Race or sexual orientation is not always a priority if that person believes that their interests are better served WRT to other conflicting issues.

[DURHAM D]

26. How about Senator Orrin Hatch and Congressman Rick

Santorum. Also, make sure he knows that John Wayne was gay.

[Chan790]

27. My grandma didn't believe me

when I told her that Liberace and Rock Hudson were gay. She went so far as to tell me she *just knew* they had to be womanizers.

[DURHAM D]

28. Bless her heart. How does she feel about Dr. Kildaire heartthrob-

Richard Chamberlin.

[Chan790]

32. I don't know...

and I can't ask her as she died last April.

[kwassa]

29. the infamous Roy Cohn, henchman for Sen. Joseph McCarthy

Conservative right-winger, even though he was a Democrat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Roy Marcus Cohn (February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer who came to prominence during the investigations by Senator Joseph McCarthy into Communism in the government and especially during the Army-McCarthy Hearings. While widely unpopular during his lifetime, he nonetheless wielded tremendous political power at times. Cohn, a member of the Democratic Party, was known to be relentlessly homophobic, and fought against human and civil rights for most of his career. This continued even after he was outed as a homosexual. He died of AIDS in 1986.

[DURHAM D]

31. Oh my God - we forgot the greatest of all times - J. Edgar Hoover.

[kwassa]

36. You are absolutely right, the ultimate gay right-wing conservative

[smirkymonkey]

30. Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, George W. Bush.....

et al.

[Az]

35. Gay people are just as likely to be sociopaths as anyone else

Gay people are just as likely to be stupid as anyone else.

[lildreamer316]

37. USED TO LIVE with one.

Tried to convince me that abortion was murder and that he would pay me $3000 to keep the baby (I was 20). Called me a murderer when I did it. Loved Ann Raynd (sp?). Showed me his voting card-R. Boasted about his daddies.
They so do exist.

[ComerPerro]

38. Jeff Gannon. However, he may have just been in it for the money

[Neil Lisst]

40. Yes. George Bush has a large gay following in Texas

Even some of the Pioneers are gay men who live and work in the Houston area. There are a number of persons in the Bush administration who are gay, but I'm not in the business of outing anyone. That is their choice, but you wouldn't have to research much to figure it out.

[in_cog_ni_to]

41. David Drier, Mark Foley, Lindsey Graham, Log Cabin Repukes.

I'm suree there's more.

[Pushed To The Left]

42. Some that haven't been mentioned:

Talk show hosts Al Rantell and Tammy Bruce(both on KABC in LA)

Mark Harris, who was once married to Martha Raye and was a frequent guest on the Howard Stern show.