Wedded to the Republicans
Clinton, Kate
Unplugged Kate Clinton Wedded to the Republicans These are hard days for gay Republicans. When the Lord of the Wedding Rings held his no-questions-asked press conference, he said he was sorely...
...I asked a gay friend who is single about this at a rally, and he told me-while carrying his "Whose Constitution...
...I asked one of the women what she did, and she said, "Make trouble...
...During the next course, she came out to me as a Republican...
...Then there are those gays and lesbians who believe that marriage is a dead-end for the sexual liberation movement...
...Kate "Read Laura Flanders's book 'The Bush Women" Clinton is a humorist...
...But I also agree with the argument that gays and lesbians should have all the rights that heterosexuals do...
...In his grim-faced version of Charlton Heston, Bush essentially said, "They can have my wedding ring when they pry it from my cold dead hand...
...And still, some of them remain wedded to the Republican Party...
...Why an amendment, when a simple post-it would do...
...Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, which is Italian for "from Mars," bloviated that if we allow gays to marry, the next thing you know people will want to marry their pets...
...She laughed and clapped me a good one on the back...
...But no, he wasn't talking about his mental condition...
...She was from a long line of Democrats and Baptist fundamentalists, and for those of you who were wondering, it's easier to break away from the Democrats than from the Baptists...
...For gay Republicans- and one-third of gay voters in the last Presidential election voted Republican-this is a very perverse Sally Fields moment: "You hate me...
...Activist judges are OK only if they are selecting him as President, but otherwise they are a big no-no...
...They have been officially, publicly dissed, discounted, and double-crossed...
...What some call denial, others parse as pragmatism...
...I admired her willingness to be in the fray and in their faces and suggested that for making real trouble, nothing would beat getting active in her party and then going in the voting booth and pulling the lever for John Kerry...
...With all the focus on gay marriage (and I hope someone, somewhere in a gender studies seminar is figuring out why two-thirds of the gay couples getting married are lesbian), little attention is being paid to single gay people...
...When the Lord of the Wedding Rings held his no-questions-asked press conference, he said he was sorely "troubled...
...He was troubled, he said, by activist judges overruling the will of the people...
...After a show in North Carolina, I was sitting at dinner next to a young lesbian couple...
...She said she was discouraged by the anti-gay marriage amendment but felt energized to make trouble and reclaim her party...
...The daily insults from the slippery slopeheads are not only offensive, they also fuel an increase in anti-gay violence and grave and growing internalized homophobia...
...If you're single and gay, you're really isolated today...
...Our Constitution...
...I sympathize with this view...
...Why, they ask, should we demand to join an institution that is so confining and conservative...
...At last, I thought, an admission...
...Trust me, for most gay people, our next thought after popping the question is not, "And if you won't have me, I'll marry my cat...
...sign-that he felt a nagging resentment that he couldn't join in any rainbow games...
...I asked her if she would now bolt her newly embraced party because of the proposed amendment...
...Our next thought is, "For this we pay taxes...
...His straight plan for the gay man and lesbian was to endorse a constitutional amendment reminding everyone that marriage is, by definition, the union of a man and a woman...
...She said that she felt it was important to stay in the Republican Party, that if people like her left, all that would remain would be religious extremists...
...You really, really hate me...
Vol. 68 • May 2004 • No. 5
