NC legislator e-blasts a bigot eruption referring to 'queers' and 'fruitloops'

[Bluebear]

Brown


First the good news - Equality NC is going to recognize NC House Speaker Joe Hackney at the 2010 Equality Gala this year (Saturday, November 13), for his work as a legislative champion for equality.

The bad news: his colleague, NC State Representative Larry R. Brown (R) is a bigot. And he's not afraid to hit that "send" button in his email client to tell the world about it. (News & Observer):

Rep. Larry Brown sent his fellow House Republicans an e-mail last week where he referred to gays as "queers" and "fruitloops."

Brown was responding to an e-mail House Minority Leader Paul Stam of Apex sent to members of his caucus about House Speaker Joe Hackney getting an award from the Equality NC Foundation, a gay-rights group.

Brown sent his reply to nearly 60 e-mail addresses. "I hope all the queers are thrilled to see him," said the message dated Sept. 27. "I am sure there will be a couple legislative fruitloops there in the audience."

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/17539/nc-legislator-eblasts-a-bigot-eruption-referring-to-queers-and-fruitloops

Brown's official web page, with contact info:

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/members/viewMember.pl?nUserID=518&sChamber=H

[NJmaverick]

1. Obviously there are many more (R)s that share those views

or he wouldn't have been comfortable in sending it. Just remember that in November

[mmonk]

2. Thanks. Since I'm from NC, this is another thing I can write about.

The timing is good too with the coming election and all.

[TexasObserver]

3. recommend

[Jester Messiah]

4. The spirit of Jesse Helms is alive and well.

More's the pity.

[HillWilliam]

5. K&R

Brown, you nasty, nasty old fossil, I gotcha damn fruitloops right here. He'll hide behind email and "oh it was supposed to be private, wahhhh!!" to say the things he doesn't have the NERVE to say to our faces.

[Bluebear]

6. zactly

[HillWilliam]

7. This arrived in my email from Equality NC this morning

Quote:

Over the years, you've no doubt heard plenty of derogatory language targeting the LGBT community. Equality NC supporters, volunteers, and staff are regularly the targets of such slurs, ranging from the unmentionable to the downright silly. ("Homosexualist activists" comes to mind.) And although some of these terms make us roll our eyes, the sentiment they represent is anything but funny.


Last week, State Representative Larry Brown from Kernersville sent an e-mail to 60 of his fellow Republicans in reaction to Equality NC Foundation's announcement of this year's legislative leadership award, which will be presented to NC House Speaker Joe Hackney at the 2010 Equality Gala next month. Rep. Brown's e-mail reads:
"I hope all the queers are thrilled to see him. I am sure there will be a couple legislative fruitloops there in the audience."

Queers? Fruitloops? Really, Rep. Brown?

As of this morning, Rep. Brown has not apologized to his LGBT and allied constituents, nor have any of the 60 colleagues who received the e-mail spoken out against his use of bigoted language.

Well, if it's fruitloops Rep. Brown wants, then that's what we'll give him! From now until Monday, October 11th, at 5pm, each donation you make to Equality NC in Rep. Brown's name will come with a box of Froot Loops cereal to be delivered to his office, complete with your personal message.

Let's show Rep. Brown and all of our elected officials that anti-LGBT slurs--and the unfair and outdated beliefs that spur them--have no place in our discourse. And let's give Rep. Brown a tangible reminder of the people of our state who refuse to put up with such trash talk by sending him Froot Loops!

I'm not that far from Raleigh. Oo, I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall when all those boxes of Queerios show up.