More comfortable being gay at a Tea Party . . .
. . . than coming out conservative in the gay community.
So reports one of our readers from a Tea Party in Boston:
Great crowd, everyone reacted positively. They wanted to take photos and gave me thumbs up. Some asked how I felt about being there. My most frequent response was I feel better coming out gay here today with the tea party people then coming out conservative in my gay community. Tried to turn the crowd away from the alinsky provacteurs, they were all there with the racist mispelled signs, so sad they were so young.
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I’m making many friends from the local Tea Party movement, and they’re great folks.
When I tell my “progressive” friends how I’m expanding my horizons, the response is often to scream “TEA PARTY PEOPLE?! ARE YOU CRAZY?!” and do everything just short of setting their hair on fire.
I am routinely lectured on how “evil” these people are. We are straying from the reservation in greater numbers all the time, and it is making a lot of people very nervous.
This is exactly how the Left became so lazy, flabby and insipid. They’ve been counting on the bigotry of “those people” they’re sure they hate. And it turns out that the bigotry has been largely, all along, in their own, tiny minds.
Comment by Lori Heine — April 15, 2010 @ 1:07 am - April 15, 2010
Meanwhile, I couldn’t help noticing that when a black Tea Party protester entered the frame of CNN’s coverage of Sarah Palin that CNN almost immediately started zooming in on Sarah to crop the black man out of the shot.
Comment by American Elephant — April 15, 2010 @ 1:53 am - April 15, 2010
I’m conservative, and I have no problem with gays. Gay folks are over taxed, too, and deserve the right to private property and independence from the government. My liberal friends hate your blog, I’m a fan!
Comment by JWWright — April 15, 2010 @ 8:49 am - April 15, 2010
I sure wish a Tea Party main event would come closer to Northern New Jersey. I live in a heavy Democrap (<<not misspelled) area and would love to attend shhowing my PRIDE colors. I still giggle when people figure out I’m a Republican and find it more offensive they assume I support the Democrap's just because I'm gay.
Comment by Joe — April 15, 2010 @ 10:48 am - April 15, 2010
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Pingback by Gay Conservatives Feel Welcome in Tea Party Movement | UNCOVERAGE.net — April 15, 2010 @ 1:56 pm - April 15, 2010
You rock! Let’s get more gay people doing this. I carried “Yo Media, I’m A Tea Partier And I’m Gay” to the Orlando Tea Party on Monday 4-12-2010 and will have it in Kissmmee with me today at Tax Day Tea Party there. Great responses! Everyone wanted pictures and to shake my hand and thank me.
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This couldn’t be more true. I’ve always found that being a positive role model as a gay conservative man gets me much further than being a hostile gay activist acting as if the whole world owes them something just because they are gay.
I am routinely shunned by other gays, but have never, NEVER had that experience from other conservatives.
I hope that makes people step back and think a moment before they vote.
Comment by COFlyerCLE — April 15, 2010 @ 6:19 pm - April 15, 2010
lol
Not the same here in Norwich CT, big joke
9/12 was the same crap. leaning to the right is one thing, tea party is another
lets give them some time and see what happens
its good that you had a good time
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