Once again, GayPatriots finds welcome among conservative bloggers
Last night, I attended a small bloggers’ gathering with conservative/libertarian blogmeister Glenn Reynolds and his lovely wife Helen Smith. It was delightful to see how many people were familiar with this blog and amusing to note how many people confused me with Bruce. Many follow his tweets and appreciate his wit.
Just because he automatically tweets out all this blog’s posts doesn’t mean he writes them all.
Not only do other conservative & libertarian bloggers read this gay conservative blog, but they welcome us as they would any other blogger. And we’ve said this before.
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How many days have you guys gone without being outright called faggots by the people you suck up to? You should put up a running clock and take bets on who will be the one to break down and share his true feelings with you. It’ll probably be Jim Hoft.
Comment by Evan — October 19, 2012 @ 6:00 am - October 19, 2012
I’m a conservative, and a conservative blog reader and sometime commenter on this site, and others. I’m also heterosexual.
Most conservatives are not anti-gay, despite what you may read/see/hear from the MSM.
Comment by Observer — October 19, 2012 @ 8:30 am - October 19, 2012
I”m also a conservative blogger, with GayPatriot in my blog roll, and proudly straight. Just as you’re proudly gay.
And I’m proudly American, too, complete with our founding principles, which include individual liberty and responsibility, and the equality of all of us before God and the law (the latter inscribed above the front entrance to the Supreme Court building).
All of which makes one’s sexuality about as important as the color of one’s hair. Government has no business speaking about either.
I don’t know about “most conservatives,” but the conservatives I know also don’t give a rat’s patootie about any gay-straight dichotomy.
And the anti-gays that I know are neither conservative nor liberal; they’re just bigots.
Eric Hines
Comment by E Hines — October 19, 2012 @ 9:03 am - October 19, 2012
Just my own personal experience – I’ve found self-professed “liberals” to be more willing/eager to stereo-type me as a gay man than any self-professed conservatives – but, as you say, this isn’t news.
Comment by Charles — October 19, 2012 @ 9:05 am - October 19, 2012
Liberals are generally confused over the whole ‘content of character” concept. For them, if you aren’t liberal, you don’t have any content to your character.
Furthermore, liberals can’t stand strays. That is why a gay conservative always is and always will be an oxymoron to them.
If you want to car to be wrecked beyond just being keyed, put a “Gay for Romney” bumper sticker on it. They would view such a sticker as a hate crime against humanity.
Comment by heliotrope — October 19, 2012 @ 11:17 am - October 19, 2012
I can’t think of the last time anyone has called me that… who wasn’t a left-liberal, that is. Lefties use the term “faggot”, showing that they are of course the real h8ers. But among normal people, I haven’t been called it in… probably decades.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — October 19, 2012 @ 11:23 am - October 19, 2012
#1.. Evan, this was the last time I was called a “faggot”:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/dan-savage-calls-gay-conservative-group-goproud-house-faggots-for-romney-endorsement/
Before that, I was in high school.. 1978. The person who called me a “faggot” is now a liberal state senator. After he called me “faggot”, I pushed him in to the lockers, grabbed the front of his shirt and said, “Yup, I am gay. What are you going to do about it?” Then I tossed him to the floor. No one has called me “faggot” since then.
Oh, partner and I were just invited to sing in a Mormon Christmas Choir.
Evan, my advice to you is : turn off Ms. Maddow and get into the real world.
Comment by TnnsNE1 — October 19, 2012 @ 12:01 pm - October 19, 2012
What leftists don’t seem to understand is that gay conservatives receive a lot of hatred from the left (particularly the gay left). So what they are saying is that gay conservatives should “suck up to” people who hate us (i.e. gay leftists). So, even assuming that conservatives in general are homophobic, it doesn’t matter what gay conservatives do, everyone hates us, unless we either go into the closet as gay or go into the closet as conservative. Fortunately, because conservatives in general aren’t homophobic, that isn’t necessary (and if even if it was, there would certainly be people who wouldn’t care what people thought of them and would just be open with their gay conservatism anyway).
Comment by Rattlesnake — October 19, 2012 @ 12:11 pm - October 19, 2012
Evan, do your persecution fantasies keep you warm at night?
Comment by V the K — October 19, 2012 @ 12:40 pm - October 19, 2012
Just want to echo #2 and #3.
I’ve also noticed my conservative friends who are gay generally can’t wait to meet my liberal friends who are gay and sit down with them and talk about everything imaginable. My liberal friends who are gay, on the other hand, still get that look of shocked disbelief at the very mention of a “gay conservative.”
Comment by Wesley M. — October 19, 2012 @ 12:50 pm - October 19, 2012
I am a conservative Mom. My daughter and son-in-law are liberals. His parents are REALLY liberals. They all seem to think that since I am a conservative I can’t relate to their gay friends. The real problem with their gay friends is that they are liberals. I’m not sure any of them are even aware there are conservative gays. I was delighted to find this website where you all share my conservative views, although my family will probably tell me that it is a fake site and you are not really gays.
Comment by NOT a liberal Mom — October 19, 2012 @ 3:03 pm - October 19, 2012
I’m a straight conservative woman. One of my favorite co-workers is gay, who also leans conservative. He’s much more open about being gay than he is about his conservative tendencies. The Republican party is known for it’s open-minded big tent. The Democrat Plantation is known for it’s close-mindedbenslavement (just look what happens to any Gay, Black or Hispanic person who wanders off it in contrast to how openly gay conservatives are treated by most people on the right.
Comment by runningrn — October 19, 2012 @ 3:36 pm - October 19, 2012
It is my opinion that when a liberal publicly maligns a gay conservative, it isn’t REALLY aimed at that person. What they are doing is trying to use that person as an example to send a message to other gay people that they should stay on the liberal side of the fence or they will be subject to the same abuse. It isn’t about punishing the conservative so much as it is keeping the others “in line”.
The same thing is done with other liberal affinity demographics that come out as aligning with conservatives. A black conservative, for example, may be called all sorts of horrible names. The implication being to other black Americans that if you align with conservatives, those names apply to you, too.
But I will tell you that I found the reaction in some circles to Richard Grenell’s appointment as Romney’s foreign policy spokesman disappointing. I wish he had stuck it out.
Comment by crosspatch — October 19, 2012 @ 4:09 pm - October 19, 2012
I am a straight, conservative, married over 20 year with 4 kids woman.
I haven’t called anyone “faggot”-not even in high school. I also would correct my kids if they were directing the word towards anyone else.
Comment by Just Me — October 19, 2012 @ 4:16 pm - October 19, 2012
Evan- The only people who have EVER referred to me as a faggot — directly or indirectly — were Dan Savage and Michaelangelo Signorile.
Comment by Bruce (GayPatriot) — October 19, 2012 @ 4:54 pm - October 19, 2012
I’m a straight married conservative woman geologist who practiced attachment parenting with all three kids and whose daughter wants to be an investment banker when she grows up (she’s 11). The Left wouldn’t know what to do with me. Just as they don’t seem to know what to do with anyone whom they choose to identify by one and only one of their characteristics (none of them being the content of their character).
It’s puzzled me for many years that those on the Left honestly seem to believe that *they* are the bulwarks standing between the “decent” and those who think in stereotypes.
Comment by jamie — October 19, 2012 @ 5:53 pm - October 19, 2012
Nicely done, Bruce @15. My experience is the same….
Comment by Bastiat Fan — October 19, 2012 @ 7:12 pm - October 19, 2012
I am straight, and conservative, and I’ll even go one farther and throw in that I’m also part of a church family. My husband is in Seminary school and will graduate and become ordained next year, he’s currently serving as an assistant pastor. The Christian community we are part of, both the school and the various churches, all seem to be dependably conservative, with few exceptions (at least the folks I know well enough to discuss such things with), and I have not seen a single bit of animosity from anyone… unless they are being snarky about so and so not coming to some event. There’s even a student at the seminary that is openly gay. It makes me sad that the ‘party of tolerance’ is so intolerant of differing opinions!
(Btw, I love the blog and follow on twitter!)
Comment by Mandy — October 19, 2012 @ 7:30 pm - October 19, 2012
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@#1: Evan – have never been called faggot directly but it really doesn’t matter.
I am a conservative not because I want to be “loved” by politicians… I am conservative because I want the government to leave me alone. Small government means not having to care whether or not its leaders “like” you. I am a conservative because I believe western culture and our Constitutional form of government are superior and worth defending. I am a conservative because I don’t believe it is moral for government to spend other people’s money (and money yet to be earned) doing evil do people (see latest welfare stats).
There are more important things than being pandered to by a politician that only cares to get your vote and no more.
Comment by SoCalRobert — October 19, 2012 @ 8:36 pm - October 19, 2012
#13@crosspatch nailed it. I think the name calling is meant to intimidate people from thinking for themselves.
Comment by Sue_Purb — October 19, 2012 @ 9:11 pm - October 19, 2012
Hey Evan, homosexuality is a sexual orientation, not a political one.
Comment by Sean D Sorrentino — October 20, 2012 @ 11:03 am - October 20, 2012
Sean D Sorrentino @22 FOR THE WIN. That would make a great bumpersticker….may I steal it?
Comment by Bastiat Fan — October 20, 2012 @ 1:21 pm - October 20, 2012
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