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Friday, March 5, 2010

Homo / Podcast The Media and Gay Men in Sacramento—Including West Sacramento's Gay Mayor—Knew Anti-Gay Pol Roy Ashburn Was Gay AND SAID NOTHING

Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:59 AM

Unbelievable. And what Joe said:

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The Californian decided that Ashburn's sexuality wasn't "relevant." The unnamed Sacramento paper apparently did too and never published. To recap: It's not relevant that a state politician with a 100% rating from an anti-gay group is gay himself. Can you fucking BELIEVE that? And it turns out that the openly gay mayor of West Sacramento has known about Ashburn for a long time.... At this moment, I'm not so interested in the detestable Roy Ashburn and his pathetic defense of "I was voting the way my constituents wanted." Because to my mind, the biggest story here isn't Ashburn's closeted homosexuality and anti-gay voting record. As we all know, that is a story we have seen a hundred times. And will see a hundred times more. The REAL story here is the media's collusion and the conspiracy of silence on the part of our own people. Folks, when you know somebody is actively working day and night to thwart the rights of your FAMILY, of your PEOPLE, you fucking say something.

Say something = out the motherfucker. And my friend Scott has a suggestion for the media:

Whenever someone speaks out against gays, the first question they should be asked is, "Are you gay?"

 

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http://outragethemovie.com/
Posted by js on March 5, 2010 at 10:21 AM · Report
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I appreciate the hypocrisy and the relevancy of this to the story but remain pretty damn skeptical the media should be outing political individuals.

Ugh Dan Savage I love your sexpositivity but sometimes your message sounds like nails on a chalkboard.
Posted by ambrown on March 5, 2010 at 11:36 AM · Report
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Better idea-first time someone speaks out against gays just assume he's closeted. Make the burden to prove otherwise on him.
Posted by TSW on March 5, 2010 at 12:54 PM · Report
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ambrown, how is the media outing political individuals any worse than political individuals doing anything and everything they can in order to deny certain people equal rights in this country?
Posted by blownspeakers on March 5, 2010 at 2:38 PM · Report
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@blownspeakers - Wrong question. How is it better?
Posted by Reymont on March 5, 2010 at 4:16 PM · Report

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