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America Online had a poll today on the controversial practice of "outing" hypocritical gay public officials. On one side of the debate is Michael Rogers, an activist who has brought down a string of anti-gay homosexual politicians.
"It's not the gay thing that's the problem - it's the hypocrisy," said Michael Rogers, creator of a Web log that has been at the fore of several recent outing campaigns. "I'm going to be calling out the politicians who vote against us and work against the interests of the very community they come from."
On the other side of the issue is Christopher Barron, political director of the Log Cabin Republicans.
"Outing is not an effective tool," Barron said. "I don't know a single vote on gay-rights issues that was changed because of outing.... Folks should be focusing on the hard work that needs to be done and not get bogged down in personal attacks."
I have to side with Rogers on this issue. Closeted politicians who attack their own community should be exposed as frauds and hypocrites. If you're a closeted gay man with a boyfriend and still exposing right wing family values, your constituents have a right to know who you truly are. And, there is no reason why the GLBT community should allow such self-indulgent pigs to harm our interests.
I can understand why mainstream groups like The Human Rights Campaign don't engage in outing. HRC is a lobby group that works with members of Congress. But no one should get in the way of heroes like Rogers who are unmasking these self-loathing creeps who have sold their souls and would sell us down the river to advance their awful careers.
3 Comments:
Absolutely Wayne! A closeted homosexual who works against Gay Civil Rights should be called out and their hypocrisy exposed.
I am in favour of outing those who "want their cock and eat it to" so to speak. There is nothing worse than a member of our already pathetically disjointed community who is campaigning against important steps to full equality. The list of such persons is long it's hard to know where to begin.
posted by Anonymous, at
10/06/2005 9:09 AM
