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Gay Conservatives Headed to CPAC This Week

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Yep, I’ll be at CPAC this coming Wednesday through Sunday.   And so will GOProud…

GOProud will be the only gay organization co-sponsoring the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).  As most of you know, CPAC is the nation’s premier annual gathering of conservatives and GOProud is honored to have the opporunity to represent gay conservatives and our straight allies at this important event.

GOProud will be at CPAC standing up for the values of gay conservatives and I write to you today asking you to stand with GOProud.

If you are going to be in DC for CPAC, please join us.  Below is a run-down of some of our plans for CPAC.  Whether you will be here for CPAC or won’t please support GOProud’s work –  Click here to contribute.

Wednesday, February 17, 6 pm – 8 pm – Join us for an informal happy hour at the Dupont Hotel Bar.  Click here for directions.  This will give GOProud folks a chance to meet and get to know each other before CPAC starts on Thursday. (We expect we’ll get together Thursday – Saturday nights too.  Stop by the GOProud booth any day during CPAC to see what’s planned for that evening.)

Thursday, February 18 – Saturday, February 20 – The focus of our CPAC efforts will be our GOProud information booth in the exhibit area near radio row.  This is our opportunity to talk about GOProud’s mission, answer questions, and grow our organization.  Please support GOProud’s CPAC booth by making a contribution to this important effort today

Saturday, February 20, 11 am – GOProud’s Jimmy LaSalvia will speak to CPAC about “Using Technology to Mobilize Conservatives.”  Click here for more information.

We hope that you will join us next week at CPAC!  There’s still time to register here.  If you can’t make it to Washington, we still need your help.  Remember, only one CPAC co-sponsor represents gay conservatives and their allies.  Please support GOProud today.  Click here to contribute.

In addition, I’ll be a speaker at a Blogger-Free-For-All panel hosted by BankofKev.  The panel is Thursday at 4:00PM.  Please come by the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel to say hello and support GOProud this week.

Oh yeah, I’ll be blogging and hopefully doing some videopodcasts too!  The one speech I’m definitely going to liveblog: MARCOOOO RUUUUBIOOOOO!

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Comments

  1. while I agree with nothing for which you folks stand, I hope you can change some hearts and minds there. Having discrimination written into your party’s platform serves no purpose other than to allow those to (proudly) espouse bigotry. It’s alienated many from the GOP and makes one scoff at any proclamation of “compassionate conservatism” or “big tent philosophy”.

    Please update us with any/all snarky comments you hear made behind your back and honestly let us know how you’re received. Good luck.

  3. Having discrimination written into your party’s platform serves no purpose other than to allow those to (proudly) espouse bigotry.

    How do you feel about discrimination not written on paper, but proudly espoused bigotry by liberals? And could you name some Republicans who have “proudly” espoused bigotry?

    Please update us with any/all snarky and homophobic comments made by “tolerant” liberals.

  4. Many mainstream Republicans still have a distaste for gays, ThatGayConservative, I think it would be incredibly naive to think otherwise. That’s to put it lightly, to boot.

    But, just being present is a huge step, and exposure/education is the best remedy, as it were. And advancing conservative principles are more important in the long run than group identity, whatever it is.

  5. I’m so jealous, I’d hoped to get away for CPAC but I have several clients who want to see me later this week…and in this economy you go when clients beckon. At-least I still have clients. If you see any of those Obama-stimulus jobs just lying on the side of the road, send them my way.

    Give ’em heck, guys….

  7. Many mainstream Republicans still have a distaste for gays, ThatGayConservative, I think it would be incredibly naive to think otherwise.

    I have no doubt that there are some. However I doubt there are that much more than the liberals who hide or express openly their “distaste” for gays.

    All’s I’m sayin’ is that it would be nice if gay liberal douche nozzles like BNL gave as much shit about the bigot homophobes on the left as she does about the imagined ones on the right.