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Another Gay Conservative in Hollywood Opens the Closet Door

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So used are we gay denizens of Hollywood to finding that our friends and acquaintances harbor left-of-center political views (or just ape those of their peers for professional advantage), that when we learn a gay friend doesn’t drink the local Kool-Aid, it’s like, well, to borrow an image familiar to residents of this town, it’s like an actor getting a major part in a feature film.

Today at the gym, I experienced just that. After my workout, I had planned only a few minutes of cardio to cool down, but started talking with a friendly acquaintance with whom I haven’t spoken in months, having primarily exchanged pleasantries in the recent past. When the topic of screenwriting came up, I mentioned I’d been too busy with my dissertation and this blog to work on my scripts. Then, after hesitating a bit before divulging the nature of the blog, I mentioned that I’d been getting a lot of writing assignments from a website (i.e., Pajamas) due in large part to the niche we’ve found–as a gay conservative website.

So excited was he to find a “fellow traveler” that he moved to the treadmill nearest mine so he could tell me of his political journey. A Hillary supporter in the Democratic primaries, he registered as a Republican after she lost. He doesn’t trust the President and reports that many of his friends, surprised to learn last fall about his support of John McCain, are coming around to his point of view.

Given his profession (he’s in the entertainment industry), he gave me permission to blog on our encounter provided I keep his identity private.

He mentioned another Republican at the gym, then I identified two others to him. It’s like we’re members of a secret society. 🙂

Just the way he describes how it is to encounter another non-leftist in this town. We make eye contact, talk in hushed voices, then hurry to find a place where we can express ourselves freely and share “war stories.”

So engaged were we in such banter that we lost track of the time. I ended up doing over 45 minutes of cool-down cardio when I had intended to do ony 15. And it wasn’t as tedious as it normally is. Not nearly. So, now I know how to work off those remaining 5-7 pounds, just find a few more conservatives at the gym to share “war stories” while I’m on a cardio machine.

Comments

  7. I know that feeling when it comes to being conservative. I live in Canberra and it is full of liberals. I cannot express my thoughts out of fear of them.

  8. Don’t forget OutliciousTV.

    I need to get out more and see if there’s any more of us ’round here. I used to work with an older gay gentleman. Total perv, in a fun way, but he seemed at least to be socially conservative. We never talked politics.

  9. Oh yeah! I met him too, but he says I can’t use his name, but to say he’s smartened up now that he’s getting used to not lying about his core being when in the closet. He says there is no such thing as a gay conservative, only gays with internalized homophobia and neurotic lack of individualization.

    That’s what he told me. But I can’t use his name. But you can use mine. Luke Packwood.

  10. In his 50s luke packwood? Nice myspace page. You have a lot of kids, but you make over 250G being luke packwood (so it says) so it must not be a problem. Those are your kids and you’re not some pedophiliac perv? Right? It’s probably not you and you are a completely reasonable person who doesn’t lust after his friends grand-kids. Just only of those self loathing cognitive dissidence inflicted wannabees who got outraged at Miss California but supported Obama who has the same opinion.

    For anyone who has a grip on reality, I have a question about gay Hollywood liberals… are there any gay Hollywood liberals that were out as they were getting famous and not after they had already established themselves? I’m genuinely curious, I honestly don’t know.