Bigotry, Left and Right. Here's a fine column by Deroy Murdock taking aim at how the military's anti-gay bigotry is hurting the war against terrorism (and the Republican adminstration's failure to remedy the situation), as well as a look at some of the anti-gay shenanigans, by Democrats, during the recent congressional campaigns. That Deroy's criticism of political homophobia is published on the conservative National Review Online website is of great significance, again showing that the political right seems more open to actual debate these days than the political left.
Back to the Past. As it happens, my partner and
I had dinner with Deroy last weekend and then we all saw the new
film "Far
From Heaven," in which Dennis Quaid plays a married, closeted
gay man in 1957 suburban Connecticut. Julianne Moore is his loyal
but frustrated wife, who turns to the family's black gardener for
solace. If you"re a fan of the great Douglas Sirk classic
melodramas of the fifties, especially "All that Heaven Allows" in
which Jane Wyman is a well-to-do suburbanite who falls in love with
gardener Rock Hudson (who was, in real life, a closeted gay man),
then pounce.
--Stephen H. Miller