Posted on 05/08/2009 7:39:37 AM PDT by SmithL
California GOP Rep. David Dreier and a number of other politicians are the unwilling stars of a controversial new documentary with an explosive premise - it's time to blow open the closet door on prominent politicians who have hidden their homosexuality while actively working against gay causes.
The film "Outrage," which opens today at the Embarcadero Center Cinema in San Francisco, presents interviews and documentation charging that a number of prominent legislators - including Dreier, the U.S. representative from San Dimas (Los Angeles County), Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and former New York Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat - have remained closeted while publicly opposing legislation on issues such as same-sex marriage, HIV/AIDS funding, and gays in the military.
Kirby Dick, the film's director, told The Chronicle on Thursday that "it's not only the right thing to do, it's the responsibility of journalists and filmmakers to report on hypocrisy wherever they see it.
"And just because it involves gay sexuality does not mean it should be off-limits."
The passage of Prop. 8 - the anti-same-sex-marriage initiative approved by voters in November, he said, has also fueled "a new urgency ... a wake-up call" on gay civil rights issues.
None of the lawmakers named in the film has publicly responded to the film's charges. But Dreir has in the past strongly dismissed such accusations as smear tactics.
Although the film notes Dreier has had just a 17 percent positive record on gay civil rights issues, the director says that even in the gay community, "there's a great deal of respect for him as a legislator."
Still, the purported outings that take center stage in "Outrage" have sparked a firestorm of controversy about the fairness and appropriateness of the tactic - and whether it signals a willingness of increasingly militant activists...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Those jackasses who made the film don’t realize there is a distinct difference between being “closeted” and keeping your private life private. Big difference between liking who you happen to like and making who you like define you and your complete lifestyle 24/7.
They seem to think that you are “closeted” if you are not an active mouthpiece of their agenda and constantly trying to push the gay agenda down everyone’s throats.
And they wonder why a majority of Americans would vote yes on a “nationwide Prop 8”.
Hey genius in the GLBT mafia, STOP CRAMMING IT DOWN OUR THROATS AND COURTS 24/7. The American people can be a tolerant people, but when push comes to shove and they have been pushed too far they will push back!
Is anyone else on this site as sick and tired of hearing about faggots every single day, all day long in the media? It never ends, faggots doing this, faggots doing that, this fag issue, that fag agenda, these fags pushing this into our schools, those fags in the priesthood, that fag cursing out Miss California, this fag screwing up Fannie Mae, fags fags fags, everywhere. Sorry, they aren’t everywhere, they are an incredibly minuscule percentage of our population and they are given far too much coverage, and far too many concessions.
Ed Koch gay? Who’d a thunk it?
Huh huh :D...umm...I mean...shame on you!
Or Keanu Reeves?
According to nighttime television, at least 25% of the American population is homosexual. Yep. And EVERY police chief, captain, head detective is a woman, too.
You mean every single gay person must be pro gay no matter what. Why?
I am concerned about the creeping socialism, tsunami spending, kissing up to terrorists and the upcoming rape of our Constitutional rights. I know how to make a torch, and I am looking for a good pitchfork on eBay.
I was pretty much going to post the same thing, but you took care of it for me. Thanks!
So much for their right to privacy . . . something I thought was near and dear to the Left. Who’s the hypocrite now?
Huh? Where did I say that? I made a comment about the perceptions given on TV that at least one-quarter of Americans are homosexual.
The liberals and the gay community continually assailed us as absolutists when we agreed with President Bush that in the fight against terror and those who would destroy America “You are either with us or against us,” yet when it comes to who may or may not be gay and who is or is not in the closet this has been their mantra for years.
I didn’t happen to notice whether Anderson Cooper made their list...
Or Opie Cunningham, er... Ron Howard!
Dreier and Crist long rumored gay. Crist supposedly got engaged as cover when he was on vice presidential list last year...MINO. Has been seen in gay bars in Orlando and Tampa. Who knows, who cares?
I was referring to the headline. I should have been more specific. Sorry.
“Can we call you Kirby do you like Mr. Dick?”
Amazing isn’t it? Nauseating too.
(Chuckle)
THIS is DISGUSTING!!! I can admire gays who don’t come out of the closet publicly...Thank YOu, David....YOU have some class.
That’s the first person I thought of, too. These idiots need to go ahead and open the door on all of the closet queens in Hollywood! What’s good for the goose . . .
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