At the request of the Republican National Committee, New York City's tourist bureau has pulled the off-Broadway show "Naked Boys Singing" from a list of discounted offerings to visiting Republican delegates, the AP reports. The gay-themed musical revue "celebrates the splendors of male nudity in comedy, song and dance." But the Republican bluenoses complained after about a dozen people, presumably delegates, had purchased tickets using the special code offered on the tourist bureau's Web site.
Meanwhile, the Log Cabin
Republicans note, the GOP platform committee was busily at work
making sure that, contrary to recent remarks by the president and
veep, not only gay marriage but civil unions and domestic partner
benefits would be condemned in the party's official platform. Red
meat to the hard-right social conservatives upset over the moderate
lineup of convention speakers, but just the sort of reactionary
obtuseness that drives away fair-minded swing voters.