Nice smear, seeing as how there's not the slightest chance anyone involved with Homocon would support that. The refusal of the Log Cabin Republicans, let alone other gay orgs, to denounce Islamic extremism was one of the reasons GOProud was founded.
Indeed a gay conservative, Charles Winecoff -- a GOProud member and Homocon participant -- denounced that "Queers for Palestine" rally, and much more hateful and fascistic extremism from the homosexual left, in an article at Breitbart's Big Hollywood. (Gay Patriot, which seems to have been the premier pre-GOProud site for gay conservatives, blogged and endorsed the article here). I'll excerpt very briefly, but everyone participating in this thread should read it in full:
Love, War – and Gay MarriageLate last year, when the gay community was working itself into a frenzy over the passage of Proposition 8 -the measure to amend the California State Constitution to define marriage specifically as a union between one man and one woman – I realized I didn’t trust the community anymore. And I’m gay.
The realization didn’t come overnight; it had been forming for some time. But the Gestapo tactics over Prop 8 – McCarthy-style blacklists, boycotting of otherwise gay-friendly businesses, apologies coerced out of individual supporters who made the “wrong” choice, enforced politically-correct donations to the Human Rights Campaign - clarified it for me.
I hadn’t left the community, it had left me. When did the gays get so mean, anyway?
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The response to 9/11 left me feeling even more betrayed. Though there was a bona fide gay hero in the attacks - Mark Bingham, the athletic businessman who helped storm the cockpit of United Flight 93, throwing the Islamists’ suicide mission off course – he soon got brushed aside in favor of the Loose Change/neocon conspiracy/hate-Bush zeitgeist that was sweeping the Left.
Never would I have imagined I’d develop a social phobia about hanging out with other gay people – my purported comrades - but lo and behold, I did. Not long after I moved back to LA (a relocation that coincided with 9/11), it seemed to me the gay community was morphing into little more than an offshoot of MoveOn.org.
The movement, or should I say urban gay culture, didn’t seem to be about being gay anymore; it had become fixated on hating US authority – not so much Big Brother as “Big Daddy,” some imaginary, omnipotent, no doubt conservative patriarchal figure in the sky (obviously the product of a lot of transference). Spoiled American gays were running out of oppressors to attack – so they found a convenient new target just within reach: themselves.
Case in point: the mystifyingly misguided group “Queers for Palestine.” In their mechanical hatred of all things Bush-related – well, almost all things – these good little left-wing soldiers stand in perverse support of possibly the most homophobic regime on earth. Once upon a time, even I used to glibly spout that a gay person voting Republican was like a Jew voting Nazi – but Queers for Palestine go straight to the source. Talk about internalized homophobia.
Did no one see the threat to decades of gay activism smoldering in the rubble of the Twin Towers?
Five years later, The Advocate finally published a story about a nasty run-in between a 43-year-old lesbian in Jackson Heights, New York, and members of the Muslim Thinkers Society, who had set up signs on a local street corner declaring “Allah will destroy nations that allow homosexuality.” After a verbal argument with these shameless bigots, the woman claimed that one of the “thinkers” had pushed her to the ground. Naturally, police charged her with disorderly conduct, not the friendly neighborhood Muslims.
Did the gay community rally to her defense?
No. United against evil Republicans and their bugaboo “Religious Right,” gays have turned a willful blind eye to Islamic supremacy, many choosing to view it not as a palpable threat to their own existence, but as a fear-mongering fabrication of the imperialist Bush administration. Self-destructive groups like Queers for Palestine rail against the phantom human rights abuses and war crimes of the staunchest defenders of social liberalism - the US and Israel – without realizing the deadly, tyrannical hands they are playing into.
As reported by Yossi Klein Halevi and others, queers in Palestine are considered criminals – no ifs, ands, or buts. They are routinely harassed, entrapped - and brutally tortured – by police. One young man Halevi interviewed was forced to stand in sewage, his head covered by a shit-filled sack, before being ordered to sit on a Coke bottle during a sadistic interrogation. Nice.
Imagine just for a moment the incredible outrage you would hear from the gay community in the States if a US police officer – or even better, a US Army officer – were accused of such barbarity.
Meanwhile, few gays in wealthy, free, out/proud America seem the least bit concerned about the monstrous physical and psychological treatment of their brothers overseas. Of course, we suffer from a media blackout here. CBS, NBC, ABC, and MSNBC rarely report anything grotesque or violent – unless it’s a hate crime committed by a white American or a sex scandal involving an evangelical preacher (or a Republican).
This is what happens when Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow are mistaken for journalists.
Eight years after 9/11, the LGBT community gets its activism fix by indulging in nostalgic, anti-establishment indignation over petty domestic slights. Ganging up on an annoying little old lady carrying a cross at a Prop 8 rally satisfies the itch between workouts and White Parties. But wouldn’t it be genuinely awe inspiring to see masses of musclebound gay men taking on, say, a congregation of homophobic Islamic “thinkers” (who, BTW, love the idea of pushing gay men off cliffs to their death)?