The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) sent out an e-mail earlier this week that read as follows:
The year is 2010. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have been guaranteed the rights granted every American by the Constitution of the United States. And, as predicted, the homosexuals have taken over. Old Glory's gone pink. Hedonism reigns. And ass-less chaps are standard office attire. Welcome to the United States of Gaymerica.
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The clink is to a webpage that continues the theme. Bizarre, to say the least, but it turns out this is a weird NGLTF call to vote on Nov. 2 styled as a parody of anti-gay propaganda. Unfortunately, NGLTF seems unaware of how easily its satire could be used by anti-gay wingers in real anti-gay fundraising letters proclaiming, "See, this is what gays really want."
In fact, the rightwing is still circulating a 1987 Gay Community News manifesto that declared "We shall sodomize your sons" and "Tremble, hetero swine," also said to have been meant as darkly humorous but which subsequently found its way into the Congressional Record as evidence of the "gay agenda."
Elsewhere, NGLTF is worried that, according to its press
release, "Bisexuals
Overlooked in the Debate on Equal Marriage Rights." It
states:
when the Washington Post wrote about the first same-sex couple to marry in Massachusetts...the headline was wrong. One of the two, Robyn Ochs...emphasized her orientation as a bisexual in speaking with the reporter, [but] this was never mentioned....
As if focusing on bisexuality would help make the case for
marriage equality clearer!