True Diversity. Check out veteran gay
journalist Rex Wockner's current Wockner
Wire opinion column at planetout.com. Rex takes aim at the idea
that gays should be defined as creatures of the left merely because
of our sexual orientation. He writes:
"The success of the gay movement has created the situation of bourgeois and ordinary and even conservative gays and lesbians becoming the majority of out, proud American homos.
"The screeching, dogmatic leftoids who long dominated American gay public discourse are not merely in retreat, they have become mostly irrelevant. Witness the obsolescence of the inflexibly leftist National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), once the dominant force in American gay activism. --
"I have spent 23 years poking around the gay universe, including the online gay universe for the past nine years, and I can say, without hesitation, that the vast majority of gays and lesbians these days have little in common with the dogma of NGLTF and movement wonks of that ilk. All the leftoid gays are still out there but, in the meantime, everybody else came out of the closet and completely buried them numbers-wise."
I couldn't agree more. As I once again witnessed this weekend the mobs of (mostly) student leftists staging their anti-capitalist, anti-American, window-smashing, police-taunting tantrum in our nation's capital, I was saddened to see, in at least one TV news report, a group brandishing a gay rainbow flag. How sad that these people think the (mostly) free economic system that made possible the social liberation of gay people is "the enemy."
Yet beyond the hot house of campus LGBT politics and its spawn
-- the professional activists who dominate the "progressive" LGBT
movement -- you"ll find the majority of gays and lesbians. And the
future belongs to them.
--Stephen H. Miller