The All But Unnoticed Prejudices of the Angry Gay Left
When the folks at Pajamas e-mailed me last month and asked me to write a piece on the Perez Hilton/Carrie Prejean controversy, I had little idea what the hullabaloo, so I wrote back, offering to write a piece on Perez Hilton as an example of Hollywood self-promotion. At the time, all I knew was that the gossip blogger had gotten a lot of media attention for something he had done related to the Miss USA pageant.
Had it not been for this invitation, I might not have even touched the story as I had other issues on my long list of potential blog topics. But, then again, the way this story keeps growing, I may at one point have looked into the matter on my own.
When I started researching the story for Pajamas piece, I found it offered me an opportunity to present to a larger audience a notion I have addressed frequently on this blog, how all too many advocates of gay marriage prefer to attack supporters of traditional marriage rather than respect their concerns and address their arguments.
And it’s not just supporters of traditional marriage some of these advocates malign. We gay conservatives have often been the target of their wrath.
So, maybe that’s why when I delved into this story, I kind of related to Carrie Prejean, even if I find her choice of primary past-time somewhat odd. She is fascinated with cultivating her appearance. And while I do take care to stay in shape, I spend more time cultivating my mind. All the same, I have experienced the same sort of attacks she has–albeit on a much, much, much smaller scale–and from some of the same kinds of people. We have been vilified for expressing our views.
All too many on the left, alas, particularly the gay left, resort to vilification as a means of addressing their ideological adversaries. And this phenomenon, particularly widespread, all but goes unnoticed outside conservative circles.
It would be nice if the gay leadership, so aware of the hatred gay people experience and have experienced in our society, acknowledged the hatred in our own community. Instead of addressing this angry intolerance, in many cases, they abet it, if not actively countenance it.
It is truly a sad day for civil discourse in our society when name-calling becomes the standard means by which proponents of a significant social change address supporters of the status quo. They do it because in our contemporary media culture, they know they can get away with it.
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Indeed, it is almost as if they want to propagate a cycle of hostile reaction and counter reaction. When Carrie Prejean did not respond in kind to the hostility, but instead stated she felt sorry for him and would pray for him, it really seemed to throw them into an uncontrolled rage. As if he/they were screaming, “Why won’t you hate me?!?!”
Unfortunately, as you note, this is not an isolated occurrence. It almost appears as a manifestation of two very different realities colliding. The leftist culture (with all of its leftist occupants) has almost fully separated itself from the traditionalist American culture and occupied its own reality. This is getting uglier every month.
Comment by Ray — May 5, 2009 @ 8:32 am - May 5, 2009
I suspect that glossing over your own group’s flaws is a rather common attribute among minorities. But, there is one one “double minority” conundrum I have observed. Gay blacks seem to be under greater stress from the greater black population than is true of white gays and the greater white community.
My experience is with young people, so I may be way off here. However, I find the term “punk” hissed regularly in the way “faggot” was 30 or 40 years ago.
Our “culture” had been directed toward the politically correct diversity band wagon. But, minority viewpoints (read prejudices) die hard and are often forgiven by the culture elites as “a work in progress.”
Blacks, for example, do not admit to their prejudices about “country” blacks, good hair, high yellow, the “National Geographics” or the “bad seed” kids down the street. A Republican black is acting white and a John Conyers is just “in the game.” These little minority “truisms” abound in minority “culture” and I doubt there is much but time that can ease them out of practice.
Comment by heliotrope — May 5, 2009 @ 11:38 am - May 5, 2009
All too many on the left, alas, particularly the gay left, resort to vilification as a means of addressing their ideological adversaries. And this phenomenon, particularly widespread, all but goes unnoticed outside conservative circles.
Dan, what the hell are you talking about? You aren’t citing anything to support your preposterous nonsense about ‘the angry gay left’ but this Perez Hilton dust-up, so how can you say that it’s particularly widespread? The Hilton matter is irrelevant anyway – that guy is hardly representative of the gay left and is so transparently milking it for publicity that we should all dismiss him as an irrelevant attention whore. Which has happened – I don’t see anyone on the left applauding Perez Hilton or rushing his defense, do you?
The ‘angry gay left’s’ response to Proposition 8 has been extremely tame and measured. No one did anything that I would call crazy, though I’d be able to understand if they did. Can you think of any other situation where a group fights for decades for something in a civil and legal way, finally earns that something they’ve been fighting for, but gets it taken away by a heavily influenced popular vote? That’s an unprecedented situation as far as I know, and that old bag with the cardboard cross deserved to have it slapped out of her hands. People that voted to rescind the work of thousands of activists over years and years deserve to have their restaurants boycotted and to be called out publicly. You can’t force yourselves into other people’s personal lives and then complain because the people you’re interfering with don’t let you do it anonymously.
Woah, that turned into a bit of a rant.
Comment by Levi — May 5, 2009 @ 1:21 pm - May 5, 2009
#3 – “I don’t see anyone on the left applauding Perez Hilton or rushing his defense, do you?”
Exhibit #1 – Larry King, liberal CNN commentator:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-philbin/2009/04/21/larry-king-gives-perez-hilton-pass-vitriolic-video-blog
Exhibit #2 – David Shuster, very liberal MSNBC commentator:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2009/04/30/msnbc-s-shuster-launches-attack-campaign-against-miss-california-gay-marr
Exhibits #3 & 4 – Jane Velez-Mitchell, lesbian Headline News anchor, and liberal CNN correspondent Erica Hill:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/04/22/headline-news-anchor-defends-perez-hiltons-vulgar-comments
Do you REALLY want to shop down this aisle, Levite? Because your credibility is fast approaching quicksand level.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — May 5, 2009 @ 2:38 pm - May 5, 2009
The Big Fat Gay Anti-Hate Collaboration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuDJmVkPYpw
the idle time of youth
Comment by rusty — May 5, 2009 @ 3:00 pm - May 5, 2009
more inspiration from our Yout’ Bristol Palin Spokesperson for Candie’s Foundation.
Bristol Palin commented on her role with The Candie’s Foundation, “I am so happy to have this opportunity to work with The Candie’s Foundation on spreading the message of teen pregnancy prevention. I feel that I could be a living example of the consequences of teen pregnancy.” Palin added, “If I can prevent even one girl from getting pregnant, I will feel a sense of accomplishment.”
Comment by rusty — May 5, 2009 @ 3:17 pm - May 5, 2009
#6 – And your point, rusty? What does this have to do with the current topic?
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — May 5, 2009 @ 3:30 pm - May 5, 2009
OneMillionMoms.com, an anti-gay website brought to us by the American Family Association, has issued an action alert against tween sensation Miley Cyrus because she sent out a Twitter message in support of marriage equality.
Lez Get Real continues:
Miley Cyrus responded to Hilton through her Twitter.com account with the following comments:
“Everyone deserves to love and be loved and most importantly smile.â€
“Jesus loves you and your partner and wants you to know how much he cares! That’s like a daddy not loving his lil boy cuz he’s gay and that is wrong and very sad!
“Like I said everyone deserves to be happy.â€
“God’s greatest commandment is to love. And judging is not loving.â€
“I am a Christian and I love you – gay or not – because you are no different than anyone else! We are all God’s children.â€
Such statements will send the wrong message to our children who are influenced by this teenage megastar. Parents need to realize that Cyrus is not the positive role model she was once thought to be. OMM
Comment by rusty — May 5, 2009 @ 3:53 pm - May 5, 2009
#8 – You are off your meds again, aren’t you, Rusty.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — May 5, 2009 @ 4:31 pm - May 5, 2009
no just enjoying them. . . LOL
Comment by rusty — May 5, 2009 @ 4:32 pm - May 5, 2009
Look at this hotness.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/05/carrie-prejean-topless-ph_n_196817.html
Comment by Levi — May 5, 2009 @ 5:40 pm - May 5, 2009
Do you REALLY want to shop down this aisle, Levite? Because your credibility is fast approaching quicksand level.
My, that’s an impressive little list.
Comment by Levi — May 5, 2009 @ 5:43 pm - May 5, 2009
#12 – And if anyone should know about little things, Levite, it would be you.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — May 5, 2009 @ 5:49 pm - May 5, 2009
#12 – And if anyone should know about little things, Levite, it would be you.
Regards,
Peter H.
Hardy-har har?
Comment by Levi — May 5, 2009 @ 5:51 pm - May 5, 2009
Latin: “De Minimis Non Curat Lex.”
Translation: “The law does not concern itself with little things.”
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — May 5, 2009 @ 5:56 pm - May 5, 2009
hey Peter, ever see this hot eye candy before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVCDCQGZ6e0&NR=1
you might also like him here also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0dKMhYSX20
time for the afternoon walk
Comment by rusty — May 5, 2009 @ 6:15 pm - May 5, 2009