GayPatriot

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Three Million on 9/12…Right Here

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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you.  Sometime shortly before midnight, GayPatriot got its 3,000,000th unique visitor.  It is quite fitting that this milestone came on the day that The American Patriot was reborn in the 9/12 Tea Parties across the USA.  I believe in fate, and this one I can’t ignore.

In addition to thanking all of our readers, supporters and detractors — I must thank my co-blogger Dan Blatt.  For much of the past year Dan has carried GayPatriot on his own and I am so very grateful. My real job has taken a lot of my time and I’ve had other personal matters that I’ve focused on rather than blogging.

Thank you Dan. For me, you will always be “GayPatriotWest”  🙂

I announced a “3 Million” contest back in May.  The contest was who could come closest to guessing the date & time we would get our 3,000,000th visitor.

Rob (aka That Gay Conservative) guessed September 1st and is the winner!  He came within 11 days.  Congrats, Rob. I should note that Rob also won the 2,000,000 contest last year.  Remind me not to play cards with you, Rob!  🙂

Our next best guess was from GP reader Beverly who picked September 28.  Because I am in a giving mood, I will be sending the “John Adams” DVD to both of them.

Finally, a personal note which is rare for me to do here.  This blog was started in response to the outrageous violation of civil liberties upon gay Republican Congressional staffers by left-wing activists.  I didn’t know what I was doing in 2004 when I started writing “GayPatriot” — all I knew was the “outings” were wrong and anti-American behavior and I wanted to shine a light on the practice.

We have evolved over time into the first-stop on the Internet for gay conservatives & supporters in the USA and in many countries around the world.  Over the past year, I have thought repeatedly of giving up writing at GayPatriot.  The lies, vitriol and malice of our opponents wears me down.  But for every “Tano/Ian/Raj”, there are many more Leahs, NorthDallas30s, ThatGayConservatives & ILoveCapitalisms. Thank you, my friends.

Most of our readers are not gay and many never knew that there were such things as patriotic, pro-capitalist, pro-military gay Americans until this blog was born.  And finally, I feel a kinship with our Founding Fathers and those who have had to stand up against the forces of freedom and liberty.  With the current Administration’s plans and tactics laid bare, I simply will not be silenced in my opposition.  I shouldn’t speak for Dan, but I believe he and I both feel a responsibility to continue doing the best we can here to dispel the myths about gay Americans and stand up for what we believe in.

Thanks again everyone.  Let’s shoot for another million soon!

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Comments

  1. Congratulations on a big milestone! I am a big fan of the blog. It is one of my daily reads. Question: I have seen the phrase “unique visitor” used more than once but I have never understood what the adjective “unique” means in connection with the noun “visitor”. Can someone explain this?

  3. Wow. So like, thanks a lot.

    I get the great honor of a mention in a post celebrating lots of hits, but instead of thanks, for provoking lots of heated conversation (and lots of hits), or thanks for getting people to think a little outside their comfy-bubble, no, I get insulted by being accused of “lies, vitriol, and malice’. And whats more, in comparison to people like ND30 etc. !!!
    Wow. Thats not very classy of you Bruce…

  6. instead of thanks, for provoking lots of heated conversation (and lots of hits)

    OMG! Tano you are so FUNNY! You seriously think that anyone comes to this blog to read YOU! LOL

    Not to mention the fact that you have yet to make the slightest contribution here, Tano, that wasn’t completely STUPID! 🙂

  7. And the 3,000,000 is not counting hits, Tano, but VISITORS. Do you know how much the meter goes up when you come back to say something stupid, or when (say) I or NDT or whoever comes back to refute you? It goes up by ZERO.

  8. Tano, I”ve ignored you up until now, but I’ll say this: Shut up.
    You are an obnoxious little twerp. You don’t add to the discussion, you simply get people mad and they respond.
    I don’t think you have ever made an intelligent comment, you simply go for something provocative.

    Go ahead, keep on posting your drivel, but please, don’t take yourself to seriously, we don’t.

  9. Congrats on the success of Gaypatriot. One small note, though. I think you didn’t intend to say:
    “…and those who have had to stand up against the forces of freedom and liberty.”
    After all, we’re here to stand WITH the forces of freedom and liberty. ;o)

  11. Tano,

    I disagree with your comments, but I won’t insult you. As far as I’m concerned, you’re as welcome here as anyone. I refuse to be as vile to those I disagree with as most on the liberal blogs are.

  12. Tano,

    I disagree with your comments, but I won’t insult you. As far as I’m concerned, you are as welcome here as the rest of us. I refuse to be as vile toward people I disagree with as almost all who comment on the liberal blogsites are.

  14. Tano,

    I understand your concern, and the fact that you would like this blog to be a great site. Actually, I think it already is a great site. I’m not gay, I’m a straight white guy, but really appreciate this site for the well reasoned opinions. I find that gays who are conservative, just as blacks who are conservative are among the most vilified of all of us, and end up having to defend their views more often. Their views become extraodinarily well thought out, and as a conservative, I really appreciate that.

  15. Bruce and Dan – congratulations. I suspect you’ll continue to see more and more traffic as people follow the links on other websites like Malkin, Instapundit, and (once in a while) NRO. It’s one of may daily stops (usually more than once/day).

    Personally, Tano and his fellow travelers (although there was one regular lib – Ian maybe??? – that I decided I’d had enough of) are welcome in my book – it’s a free country so far. I am fascinated (and, yes, aggravated) by the liberal thought process but we must press on.

    I might add that the commenters on this blog are some of the most interesting in the blogosphere – far more interesting than found on a lot of the megasites.

  19. There’s a reason thinking people are flocking AWAY from the state run media like NBC MSNBC the NYT. You can get more realiable information from the net and conservative blogs. Thanks to Gay Patriot! I depend on this blog for energetic right thinking conversation and insights into the liberal mindset.

  21. Bruce and Dan I am glad that you have this blog. I am also straight and a mother of 3 sons. I appreciate the thoughtfulness of your posts and I like it here…. but the vitriol of people like Tano do spoil it a little bit.

  25. ILC,

    You see what I mean? I bring joy and happiness to this community, and, what seems more valuable than anything else, a somewhat more real target than just anonymous demonic forces, for y’all to rail against.
    And all I get in return is insults and put-downs.
    Boo-hoo.

  26. Congratulations on the milestone. I haven’t logged in here very often, but I like most of your content. You definitely fill a niche. I can’t think of another place like this, and as you know, you are linked sometimes from some of the biggest conservative blogs out there. You’re providing value to the greater VRWC blogosphere. ^_-

  27. I for one am happy to have found this blog and check in regularly. In a sense it helps to reaffirm my faith in this country. Rarely in the discussion threads are issues of race and sexuality discussed. It is mostly a free and fair exchange of ideas based on underlying convictions and beliefs. Very refreshing.

    As was mentioned in the post, many of the readership of this blog are straight. And I am as well. As cliche as it sounds and believe it or not, I have many gay friends. My very best friend (wife excluded, of course) is a gay woman who was my “best man”. Politics however is rarely discussed. As it turns out though, in many cases, my politics are more important than “their” sexuality. It is an unfortunate truth I have witnessed first hand. A thought often extolled on this blog site.

    So it is with thanks to the contributors of the Gay Patriot, that I say “It is good to be amongst friends!” Congratulations and Let the debate of ideas begin!

  28. Thanks to you and Dan and everyone else who contributes to GayPatriot! I don’t like identity politics, but I think it is great that you are showing America that it’s ok to be Gay and Conservative! Keep it up!

  33. Oh, I get Tano’s confusion now.

    Bruce and Dan are referring to unique visitors. Tano, being just another liberal troll, is worried he’s too generic to be unique.

    (Now that I think about it, he does sound like Levi…)

  35. #25 – Oh, this is rich:

    “I bring joy and happiness to this community, and, what seems more valuable than anything else, a somewhat more real target than just anonymous demonic forces, for y’all to rail against.”

    Tardo translation: “I think I’m so important that it frustrates me when you don’t see things through my own conceit. Just like other libtards.”

    “And all I get in return is insults and put-downs. Boo-hoo.”

    Tardo translation: “Thank you sir – may I have another?”

    Ever considered getting therapy for this martyr complex you have?

    Get off the cross, we need the wood.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  36. Quite an accomplishment and I commend you both for your strong voices.

    As a Very Conservative lesbian woman, I thoroughly enjoy this blog. Somedays it feels like I go out into the political world and I am warring all day long; defending myself from the vitriolic attacks by fellow gays and Democrats for betraying “my people,” and to that I say “What people? I am an American, I fight for Her people and Conservative principles.” When I get home, I read this blog and am rejuvenated. I am not alone, but even if I was, I will never be silenced.

    Thanks again and congrats!