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Documentary purports to rip GOP's closet doors
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 5/8/9 | Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

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 ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: closet; crist; daviddreier; deathofprivacy; documentary; dreier; edkoch; gop; homonaziagenda; homosexualagenda; moviereview; outing; outrage; sanfranciscovalues
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To: SmithL

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!


21 posted on 05/08/2009 8:05:22 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: SmithL

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.


22 posted on 05/08/2009 8:07:24 AM PDT by raptor29
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To: SmithL

Ed Koch gay? Who’d a thunk it?


23 posted on 05/08/2009 8:09:37 AM PDT by AnnGora (Does this tagline make me look fat?)
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To: BnBlFlag

Huh huh :D...umm...I mean...shame on you!


24 posted on 05/08/2009 8:14:01 AM PDT by Sudetenland (Partial-birth abortions are state sanctioned torture.)
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To: Badeye

Or Keanu Reeves?


25 posted on 05/08/2009 8:14:46 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: raptor29

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.


26 posted on 05/08/2009 8:16:47 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: LS

You mean every single gay person must be pro gay no matter what. Why?


27 posted on 05/08/2009 8:18:55 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Owl_Eagle
Truthfully, gay issues are way down my list of priorities. There are so many more urgent problems that I don't waste time worrying about what some guys/girls are doing with each other. If they want to think of us as knuckle-dragging fundies, let them. They are outside of my sphere of concern. This is America. You can * each other if you want to.

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.

28 posted on 05/08/2009 8:23:54 AM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: raptor29

I was pretty much going to post the same thing, but you took care of it for me. Thanks!


29 posted on 05/08/2009 8:27:59 AM PDT by gopno1
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To: SmithL

So much for their right to privacy . . . something I thought was near and dear to the Left. Who’s the hypocrite now?


30 posted on 05/08/2009 8:29:40 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: Ev Reeman

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.


31 posted on 05/08/2009 8:30:21 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: SmithL

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...


32 posted on 05/08/2009 8:32:52 AM PDT by BlueNgold (... Feed the tree!)
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To: LS

Or Opie Cunningham, er... Ron Howard!


33 posted on 05/08/2009 8:49:12 AM PDT by frankenMonkey (www.citizendirect.org - this domain name for sale)
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To: domenad

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?


34 posted on 05/08/2009 8:56:30 AM PDT by mono
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To: LS

I was referring to the headline. I should have been more specific. Sorry.


35 posted on 05/08/2009 8:57:31 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: SmithL

“Can we call you Kirby do you like Mr. Dick?”


36 posted on 05/08/2009 9:02:55 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: LS

Amazing isn’t it? Nauseating too.


37 posted on 05/08/2009 9:10:30 AM PDT by raptor29
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To: BnBlFlag

(Chuckle)


38 posted on 05/08/2009 9:21:40 AM PDT by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: SmithL

THIS is DISGUSTING!!! I can admire gays who don’t come out of the closet publicly...Thank YOu, David....YOU have some class.


39 posted on 05/08/2009 9:41:00 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Badeye

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 . . .


40 posted on 05/08/2009 9:52:30 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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