I’ve **BEEN** a Sad Puppy supporter from the start.
I know all the organizers: I even know Ted Beale/”Vox Day” somewhat.
And I’ve seen the screeching of the opposition.
I know who I’ll continue to stand with, just as I do on the political side.
After all, Politics flows from Culture, and the Puppy-kickers are exactly the same sort of people that the Obama Administration is stuffed to the gills with.
Three things made the Puppies possible: the communications of the Internet, a core of fans gathered around the one SF publisher that has held out for Story over message (i.e. Baen Books), and the rise of Indie Publishing, which bypasses the gatekeepers of Big Publishing. . .
David Gerrold was probably the first gay scifi writer to put homosexuality into his stories in the 1970s (”The Man Who Folded Himself” and a Star Trek script about a gay couple refused by Roddenberry). Fine. But to turn scifi into a militant gay pride parade? Almost no one wants to read someone else’s rant. No wonder pub house written scifi is ossifying as self-published books explode. The Science Fiction Book Club — one of the pillars of my teen years — has been reduced to irrelevance.
I noticed one of the planned 2016 WorldCon hotels is prominently pushing a pride package with a picture of two guys (I think) holding hands. Just one factor in selecting which hotel to stay in.