Perhaps the national org has some problems, but every local chapter I have visited is filled with True Republicans (from moderate to very conservative) who are also gay.

William Orozco, Kevin McCarthy, and Mary Toman were chairmen of the LA(GOP) Republican County Central Committee and as former member of the CCC I can tell you they were all solid conservatives. The family that you refer too bought the organization in 2002.

Bruce, if you want to dig why not contact some of the chairs of the state LCR´s, such as Terry Hamilton of the LCR CA.

***GAYPATRIOT EXCLUSIVE***
In the wake of the Washington Blade story yesterday suggesting strong ties between Log Cabin Republicans and left-wing liberal activist Tim Gill, I was contacted by a long-time Log Cabin insider.  He is aware of my long-time …

Looks like the GOP called it correctly when it treated LCR like a bunch of Judases.

perhaps the time for Log Cabin has passed and a Gay Conservative (note: not REPUBLICAN) group should take its place?

How about… a group that tries to spread libertarian-conservative and Republican principles to gays… rather than a group that attempts, most unwisely and pathetically, to spread “gay principles” (i.e., leftist and Democratic principles) to conservatives?

If being gay doesn’t or shouldn’t matter in GOP politics, if the party philosophy truly practices the idea that what matters is who rather than what you are, isn’t LCR a contradiction? LCR’s public/private philosophical crisis is due to Gill’s influence, Gill’s influence is borne of lack of funds, lack of funds is due to lack of rank-and-file membership, lack of rank-and-file membership is due to a philosophical crisis: Republicans generally aren’t joiners and don’t practice identity politics.

LCR is an excuse for Democrats to point to chimerical schisms in the GOP platform and for confused gay Republican men to have sex in second-rate convention hotel rooms.

Close the doors.

I have been hounding on Tim Gill & Log Cabin for almost four years. I didn’t have time to do the kind of reporting the Blade did. Although I note that all of their sources are “anonymous”. I happen to think we share a couple of the same sources.

Regardless, I did do many hours of research here at GayPatriot trying to “follow the money” and lay out at least a circumstantial case that Gill controlled Log Cabin, and Log Cabin needed Gill or they would go bankrupt.

*whew*

That being said, perhaps the time for Log Cabin has passed and a Gay Conservative (note: not REPUBLICAN) group should take its place?

But this Blade article gives me second thoughts. What’s an out and proud gay Republican boy to do? Is it worth trying to take LCR back, or is it time to start another group?

Look at the grief Operation Chaos caused, and that was grass roots.

But, you can imagine the media firestorm if it were reported that a major GOP donor gave money to a Democratic auxiliary to make mischief in that party’s primary?

Hmmm. . . maybe there’s a post in that.

UP-UPDATE: Ben Smith at Politico has an interesting take on this story saying it’s a “sign of how hard it is for gay Republicans to survive in the” GOP.

That cracks me up. Oh, poh wittle gay Republicans! So wejected in the 21st centuwy!

To grasp the full ridiculousness: imagine if the Democratic Hispanic caucus inexplicably, yet consistently ran ads that served the strategic aims of the other party, the GOP – and then were found to be on the take from Rush Limbaugh’s foundation, the last several years, and passing every significant decision by him – and then GPW (say) tsk-tsked, “It’s just a sign of how hard it is for Hispanic Democrats to survive in that party.”

It’s obvious what was going on. Gill and his group was controlling Log Cabin and using their good name as a front to act as augents provacateurs to make sure that Gay Republicans would never have any sort of entree into the Party. For example, I consider Mitt Romney to be a malignant a force in our party, and believe me, no one considers him more of a phony than I. However, attacking him directly was designed to give Gay Republicans a bad name among the rest of the Republican party. I suspect that the tactic worked like a charm.

It is good that the Democrats control of Log Cabin has been exposed. Perhaps the organization can be salvaged?

Duh.

Next you’ll discover Andrew Sullivan isn’t a conservative.

Democrats want NO OPPOSITION to their policies.