Today Is A Day Without Gays… Sure.
This is perhaps one of the dumbest and childish ideas I have ever heard.  But I’ll give it to the Gay Leftists, at least they aren’t calling for people to burn down Mormon churches (yet).
Day Without A Gay seeks to shift our strong feelings about injustice toward service! Let’s fight for equality by out-loving those who would deny us rights. Call in “gay” on December 10th (International Human Rights Day) and volunteer for your local LGBT and/or human rights organizations.
This site allows the LGBT community and our allies to be active in the search for service by posting and searching volunteer opportunities. We will not sit at home on December 10, 2008. We will offer love and support to those who need it most, the way only the gay community can!
Did you know that today was also International Human Rights Day? Nope, me either.  Tell me — why aren’t the American Gays protesting the history of gay hangings in Iran today at the Iranian Embassy?
Not sexy enough — better to call in sick to work and yell at Mormons, I suppose.
I will bet you anything that the hotel desk will be fully staffed by The Gays when I walk downstairs in a few minutes. Yep, you betcha! <wink>
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
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As I read your post, at first I started to think, “Oh come on, Bruce – at least they’re calling for volunteerism”. Then I realized it was only a vague call for service to the same old insular gay organizations, which probably don’t do as much as they think. Finally, I got to this part:
and I thought “Damn, Bruce is right as usual. These people are lame!”
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — December 10, 2008 @ 9:03 am - December 10, 2008
no surprises at my place of business so far
Comment by The Livewire — December 10, 2008 @ 9:05 am - December 10, 2008
What about the gay bars? Surely they’re not going to call in “gay” today.
Comment by Julie the Jarhead — December 10, 2008 @ 9:54 am - December 10, 2008
Well, this is pretty high stakes PR for the GayLeft to embrace after another series of stunning defeats at the ballot box in 2008… only outdone by a string of 11 statewide defeats at the ballot box in 2004. If Sen Larry Craig were behind it, we’d know it was tongue in cheek –no, not those cheeks and not in an airport loo
2006′s “A Day Without An Immigrant” (El Gran Paro Estadounidense) brought out modestly wide-spread and effective protests/rallys/marches to help raise awareness of the presence of immigrants in our economy… the press will be comparing today’s likely-flaccid GayLeft copycat day to that successful Latino effort and declaring that most gays don’t even support gay rights. Brilliant move on the GayLeft’s part acting in our behalf, eh?
They must be tripping over all the bright strategists thinking hard in the wake of 3 more statewide defeats of gay rights. Wait, weren’t they the ones who advised turning the fight for gay marriage into a secular war against religion, God and the Bible? While simulataneously helping to bring anti-gay/pro-Obama voters to the polls?
Bright minds all around. It’s going to be another day to hide being gay because of the unfair association with these numbnuts. I thought BarneyFrank was the ultimate reason to hide being gay… God save us from these fools.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — December 10, 2008 @ 10:45 am - December 10, 2008
spam filter… thanks
Comment by Michigan-Matt — December 10, 2008 @ 10:45 am - December 10, 2008
wondering, just wondering. . .will Sen Craig be calling in sick today?
Comment by rusty — December 10, 2008 @ 10:52 am - December 10, 2008
how completely pointless…
Comment by jonathan — December 10, 2008 @ 11:25 am - December 10, 2008
The real question is, did you call in gay today Rusty???
Comment by Leah — December 10, 2008 @ 11:31 am - December 10, 2008
nope, working working working. . .although my employers did have colleagues (both Straight and Gay) take time off today to spend time at their local charity.
Comment by rusty — December 10, 2008 @ 11:50 am - December 10, 2008
All the queens in my office are here.
Comment by Robert — December 10, 2008 @ 12:20 pm - December 10, 2008
There’s a simple solution to idiocy like this: Fire them.
Comment by rightwingprof — December 10, 2008 @ 12:31 pm - December 10, 2008
Korean Immigrant loses family in Marine plane crash, but unlike gay activists, doesn’t whine and carry on about it.
Comment by V the K — December 10, 2008 @ 1:11 pm - December 10, 2008
V the K,
Read the story, very moving.
Comment by Kit — December 10, 2008 @ 1:21 pm - December 10, 2008
Yes, here’s a man dealing with the worst tragedy imaginable with stoicism and dignity. Meanwhile, a bunch of drama queens lose an election issue that barely affects their lives and they take to the streets like a bunch of spoiled children.
The contrast could not be more stark.
Comment by V the K — December 10, 2008 @ 1:26 pm - December 10, 2008
This is the worst thing to happen since the year without a Santa Claus….
Comment by sonicfrog — December 10, 2008 @ 1:33 pm - December 10, 2008
V, that is a horrible tragedy. Yoon is handling this with such grace. If it would have been an American family, they would already be suing.
PS. I wonder if he’s from north or South Korea?
Comment by sonicfrog — December 10, 2008 @ 1:37 pm - December 10, 2008
what a tragic accident for Yoon.
since were sharing tragedy: Here is the story of two brothers –
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nybias105959259dec10,0,7702306.story
Comment by rusty — December 10, 2008 @ 1:50 pm - December 10, 2008
Hopefully he’ll get waht he deserves, Rusty.
Comment by The Livewire — December 10, 2008 @ 2:21 pm - December 10, 2008
rusty, you’re right about that story about the Ecuadorean brothers being a compelling, tragic story… to be brutally attacked because you appear gay and different and, probably, “foreign” to a pair of black thugs with a baseball bat and loads of H8.
The sad part is you’ll never hear this story on Rush or OReilly or Dobbs, those merchants of hate pandering to the neo-Nativist lowlifes. All immigrants -legal or illegal- take a beating every day in the press. The black thugs from Brooklyn just put it into action the verbal terrorism and charms of the Nativist right. It’s a shame the Land of Opportunity Reagan and Kemp spoke so eloquently about has become the Land of Oppression.
I can almost hear Pres Reagan say, “Mr. Obama, Tear Down That Wall!”
Comment by Michigan-Matt — December 10, 2008 @ 2:30 pm - December 10, 2008
(V teh K calmly and slowly backs away from the ranting lunatic.)
Comment by V the K — December 10, 2008 @ 2:41 pm - December 10, 2008
I don’t see why so many conservative gays are opposed to Day w/o Gays. I don’t think it will be very successful; however, if it were, it would be a fine way to make the numbers visible w/o parades or shouting or metaphorical bomb throwing. Conservative gays and conservative supporters for glbt liberties are a huge, yet often invisible, voting block. My business is open today, but I don’t hold it against any employee who calls off today — of course, when they don’t show up at my business, they don’t get paid. I DO believe in personal responsibility.
Comment by MikeInSedona — December 10, 2008 @ 3:17 pm - December 10, 2008
I live in the Land of Oppression. Hmmm. Now, do I take that literally and risk being lambasted for being a sophist or do I accept the statement in its “spirit” and let it go? The words he’s using don’t really mean what they mean, do they?
Comment by Ignatius — December 10, 2008 @ 3:24 pm - December 10, 2008
I work at home.
I wonder if anyone’s pulling this crap on the gayest place on Earth: Broadway. If I had expensive tickets to a show and this happened I would become homophobic in an instant.
Comment by Attmay — December 10, 2008 @ 3:43 pm - December 10, 2008
I don’t see why so many conservative gays are opposed to Day w/o Gays. I don’t think it will be very successful; however, if it were, it would be a fine way to make the numbers visible w/o parades or shouting or metaphorical bomb throwing. Conservative gays and conservative supporters for glbt liberties are a huge, yet often invisible, voting block. My business is open today, but I don’t hold it against any employee who calls off today — of course, when they don’t show up at my business, they don’t get paid. I DO believe in personal responsibility.
Because the morons doing this make all of us look like a bunch of three year olds throwing a temper tantrum because Mommy said no. If we expect to be treated like respectable contributing members of society, than we damn well better act like them – and that means doing our jobs, not calling off in a huff.
It’s just another example of pushing “look at me I’m ghhhhhhhhhhhhey!” when we should be pushing “Yeah, I’m gay – who cares?”
Comment by Rob — December 10, 2008 @ 4:55 pm - December 10, 2008
Such a beautifully nutty comment. Mmmm, what a taste. Note how:
- Black thugs in Brooklyn are now right-wingers. (Huh?)
- Right-wingers, i.e., *conservatives*, are now “Nativists”, i.e., racists. (Thank you, Ian!)
- A real wall designed by brutal Communists to keep their own people in, is now morally equivalent to a non-existent (or only wished-for) wall desired by a free and democratic people to give them some minor degree of protection from the possibility of terrorists infiltrating along with all the legal and legitimate immigrants, who are generally very much welcomed.
- Two Ecuadoran brothers are assumed to be ‘victims’ of that wall, when the very fact that they are here – legally or otherwise, rusty’s article does not say – proves the wall’s non-existence.
- One of the brothers, who has multiple wives and children *in different countries* (per rusty’s articles), is implied to be an immigrant worth having.
- America is now allegedly “the Land of Oppression”. (With capitals, even.)
MM: I’ve seen more than a few nutcase comments from you… that one is surely in your top 5. Good job and please give us more.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — December 10, 2008 @ 7:03 pm - December 10, 2008
That’s right, ILC, the only possible reason anyone would want to live in a country with secure borders is atavistic racism.
Comment by V the K — December 10, 2008 @ 8:38 pm - December 10, 2008
Forgot all about it… If I’d remembered, I’d have wondered around the cube farm to see how my gaydar has been working.
#18: now that you mention it, I’ve not heard Rush mention a word lately about the numerous citizen victims of illegals who commit violent crimes.
Just wondering: there are more than 300,000,000 people in this country. How many more are needed? 500,000,000? A billion?
Comment by SoCalRobert — December 10, 2008 @ 10:41 pm - December 10, 2008
It ought to be real popular with the straights who ought to be called in on their day off or on other shifts to pick up the slack. For mine own part, I was off today anyway. There was too much “volunteering” to do around the house such as three trips each to Walmart and Home Depot.
To me, strikes are based on selfishness and have little (if any) to do with “fairness”. They seem to piss off more people than those who might have sympathy for the striker’s “plight”. Remember the NY cabbie strike just before Christmas a few years ago? That went over like a fart in church. One of the reasons I got out of EMS was because the local service went union and I wanted no part of a group that would put their own selfishness over the people they’re paid to help.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — December 11, 2008 @ 2:23 am - December 11, 2008
I think many have missed the point of Bruce’s opinion(great gay guy name BTW and I don’t care if thas not a PC statement and also not putting words in Bruce’s mouth).
Not just Gay rights…Lefty Feminists do the same thing. Outrage and fury when they see some perceived oppression in the US, the country they live in and are citizens of, but when it comes to other nations….nothing.
Iran, Cuba, Syria, Saudi Arabia, can name dozens…when THEY oppress women, gays, and I’ll even bring the Lefty ‘racial activists’ into it, ethnic minorities..The Left(not all the Left, calm down Libs) do not protest..cultural differences or some other sort of nonsense that some how makes it Ok for those other folks to do it is their usual line.
However they never let us forget that the US is supremely Evil for not letting Gays marry.
After all, we already don’t allow those queer bastards, stupid women and f-ing blacks to vote or drive cars…ohh..wait…;)
Comment by KeaponLaffin — December 11, 2008 @ 2:32 am - December 11, 2008
If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, does it make a sound?
Comment by American Elephant — December 11, 2008 @ 3:47 am - December 11, 2008
Yes, SoCalRobert, we need at least another hundred million illegal immigrants because our schools aren’t crowded enough, our emergency rooms aren’t overstressed enough, there aren’t enough people using taxpayer-provided social services, and dang it, there just isn’t enough urban sprawl in this country… especially in California.
I mean, what’s wrong with you man? Do you want Karl Rove’s children to have to perform manual labor? Not that they ever would, but surely you wouldn’t want that, would you? You bigoted nativist restrictionist poopy-pants you!
Comment by V the K — December 11, 2008 @ 5:33 am - December 11, 2008
BTW, I saw the much vaunted gay liberal Barney Frank on the House floor this afternoon via CSPAN. Guess that makes him a traitor to the cause?
This whole thing smacks of selfishness with the volunteer activity thrown in to asuage the guilt. That is, assuming any gay liberals have the capacity for feeling guilty. This has all the honesty of an Illinois governor. It will accomplish about as much.
And if we find out about it later, can we put it to good use by burning it?
Comment by ThatGayConservative — December 11, 2008 @ 5:38 am - December 11, 2008
V, what with me being a racist unnejumacated Nativist and all, I had to look up ‘atavistic’. Damn yew (not) fer using them funny ferin words.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — December 11, 2008 @ 8:23 am - December 11, 2008
(Oh yeah, and I’m also dangerously conservative, i.e. VIOLENT!, even though I’m registered Independent.)
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — December 11, 2008 @ 8:28 am - December 11, 2008
Well, the ‘Day Without a Gay’ is over, and somehow, human civilization managed to muddle through.
Comment by V the K — December 11, 2008 @ 9:51 am - December 11, 2008
#30: And the next time a gay-related proposition comes to CA the Religious Wrong could use a few more devoutly Catholic illegal immigrants for their cause.
Comment by Attmay — December 11, 2008 @ 1:04 pm - December 11, 2008
The gay guy in the cube across from me wrote in yesterday with, “Not feeling well so working from home today.” Coincidence? Hard to say. I don’t think it counts as ‘Day Without a Gay’ if you tell the company you’re going to be doing your normal work. It’s normal for people to WFH every couple weeks at this company, so no one missed him or gave it a second thought.
And he’s pretty closet-y, anyway. I am the “out and (occasionally) proud” one, in our group. Ironic, isn’t it? I, the ex-Democrat conservative-leaning Independent have no trouble with people knowing I’m gay – and I even take low-key opportunities to clue people in. While he, the loudmouth flaming liberal, is closeted at work. When I happened to mention to him something that revealed I was gay, he became so nervous that couldn’t park his car, and damaged it (a scrape) while trying.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — December 11, 2008 @ 1:10 pm - December 11, 2008
(aargh, “he became so nervous that HE couldn’t park his car…”)
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — December 11, 2008 @ 1:14 pm - December 11, 2008
Darn your overwhelming personal attractiveness, ILC.
BTW, we need to do lunch — shoot me an email.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — December 11, 2008 @ 7:37 pm - December 11, 2008
Aw shucks, NDT
Will write you.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — December 12, 2008 @ 2:12 pm - December 12, 2008