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...
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Gays are the only group I know that attack others by saying, in effect, “You’re like me.” They are truly sick in the head.
Ed Koch? ooogh.
Carla must be running out of ‘enemies’.
Don't know what their problem is with Koch. He is a Democrat and had major support from gay activists when he ran for Mayor, back before all Dems were for gay rights.
I believe he supported Bush’s war on terror. ‘Nuf sed.
I thought that gays wanted to join the military. Go figure!
He supported BUSH’s war on terror.
Rock Hudson was also married as was Jim McGreevy. He even had a daughter.
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