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| Nancy Pelosi doing her best Marie-Antoinette at 2014 San Francisco Gay Pride. |
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Obama goes all prudish while talking to gay man, then - tries to cover it up with stupid fist bump. |
Back in the 1990s, when I was very much a part of the gay lifestyle, I idolized certain political figures; all Democrats: who I thought would usher in a new age of homosexual acceptance and freedom; I even thought that these demagogues would heal us by funding AIDS research; and even wipe away all memories of childhood trauma – starting with the symbolic acceptance of gays in the military. Suddenly, it started to all come crashing down when I began to date a highly placed San Francisco political operative who sometimes invited me to accompany him to certain fundraising functions. At one such event, I overheard one of my heroes speaking quite despairingly of having to attend the gay parade “freak-shows.” I asked my friend about this; he was totally unconcerned. I was politically naive, and he educated me about the tradeoff: offering gay loyal voting blocks for social change; the Democrats had signed on. My little fantasy world was spinning out of control.
While there are committed leftists and homosexual rights advocates in the Democratic Party, most, and the same goes for the Republicans, are primarily political opportunists greedy for power. In terms of the gay community, the Democrats covet them as allies because of their singular focus upon Democratic policies, generosity in fundraising, and ability to mobilize during election cycles. As for actually caring about the welfare of gay men and women - Democrats have a sort of “bread and circuses” policy: keep them temporarily happy and keep them alive; hence, Democrats’ push for same-sex marriage in the middle of a gay STD epidemic and the CDC push for all gay active men to take Truvada in order to ward off possible HIV infections. There have only been rare instances of politicians actually doing the right thing when homosexuals are concerned: way back in the 1980s, when then Mayor of San Francisco Dianne Feinstein very unpopularly closed the disease infested bathhouses, and, recently, when the Texas GOP endorsed gay “reparative” therapy; only to be outdone once political careerist Governor Rick Perry tried to save face and backtrack on the stance. Otherwise, the US government has resoundingly left homosexuals to wallow in their illnesses. Just a few days ago: Obama refused to carry a conversation further when a gay man said he is only gay “when having sex.” Causing, the president to laugh, then, realizing there was a group of children near the two, he said, “Not in front of the kids!” Why so squeamish? Strange since Obama once said: “My 9-year-old and my 6-year-old are already aware that there are same-sex couples. And my wife and I have talked about it. And one of the things I want to communicate to my children is not to be afraid of people who are different, and because there have been times in our history where I was considered different. And one of the things I think the next president has to do is to stop fanning people’s fears.” Most significantly, gay goddess, Nancy Pelosi, overwhelming refused to have much physical contact with her gay constituency at the 2014 Pride Parade: preferring to merely offer the royal wave behind chain link fences lest she be soiled in their corruption. In this, the Holy Scriptures are fulfilled: “For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is returned to his vomit: and, The sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.” (2 Pete 2: 22)