Clark, Dean bend over backwards for gay vote {Gay Mag Photos }

Drudge Report, Others | January 21, 2004 | nwrep

[xrp]

Shouldn't that be bending over forwards?

[eburke]

I think Drudge means: bend over forwards

[nwrep]

PING

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I'm more amazed at Huge Jackman's appearance on the cover of this fag rag.

[hole_n_one]

[CasearianDaoist]

Don't you have to have a backbone to do that?

[Kevin Curry]

Headline above Clark's head:

"Gay Teen Boyfriends on Children's TV"

Above Dean's head:

"TVs Youngest Gay Character"

[eastforker]

Just.. one... more.... pea.......!

[Waco]

Rigt on,,,hillary has given them both their "faggot suck-up" routine. Dems got to have one. Think dimmicrat-think-queer,,,,,VOTE BUSH.

[kcvl]

|| election 2004 ||

One gay family’s Iowa adventure

When a gay campaign worker for Howard Dean flies with his partner and son from Vermont to Iowa—where caucuses to select a Democratic presidential candidate will meet on Monday—he learns as much from the gay and lesbian Iowans he meets as the Iowans do about Dean’s campaign for president.
By Marty Rouse
An Advocate.com exclusive posted January 14, 2004

This coming Monday, January 19, Iowa holds the first Democratic presidential caucuses in our country. The results of these caucuses will have a major impact on who becomes the Democratic Party’s candidate to take on George W. Bush in November. The following is a log of a three-day trip to Iowa one gay family—Marty Rouse, Scott Sherman, and their son, Sasha—took in December at the invitation of the Howard Dean campaign to reach out to Iowa’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered voters.

More...(with photos)


http://www.advocate.com/html/stories/906/906_iowa.asp

[GunRunner]

[kcvl]

|| poitics ||

Pro-peace, pro-health care, pro-gay

Howard Dean is catching the country’s attention by being everything he says President Bush is not

By Chris Bull

From The Advocate, April 1, 2003

When Howard Dean signed civil unions legislation into law, the Vermont governor’s political future looked anything but promising. His race for reelection in 2000 was tight enough—Dean captured 50.5% of the vote—to just miss having to be decided by the state legislature, after a heated campaign against a virtually unknown opponent. And at nearly every campaign stop the governor was besieged by critics who screamed antigay epithets at him. Even many gay men and lesbians, the primary beneficiaries of the new statute, expressed disappointment that Dean had not backed equal marriage rights instead of a separate institution to recognize their relationships.

But just two years later, Dean is hoping his steadfast support for civil unions—which provide same-sex couples nearly all the legal rights of marriage—will help take him all the way to the White House. After spending the past year barnstorming the nation’s gay and lesbian communities for support, he has gone from long shot to one of the early front-runners for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The Vermont battle over civil unions “was one of the things that first got me thinking about a presidential bid,” Dean says. “I realized that if I could get through the 2000 election, I could certainly handle what the Republicans could throw at me nationally. And I had no doubt about the righteousness of the cause and wanted to help take it to the rest of the country.”

Beth Robinson, chairwoman of Vermonters of Civil Unions, says Dean may actually be more popular among gay people outside her state than inside it. “There is no reason to believe that any of the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination would have been any more supportive of same-sex marriage than Howard Dean,” she says. “But on the other hand, a lot of us feel that he fell short of our expectations for him here. A lot of us still feel that full marriage rights were the way to go.”

More...(exclusive interview)

http://www.advocate.com/html/stories/886/886_dean.asp

[GasparSantiago]

Hey, that`s Mr. Cresole..."Give me everything on the menu, put it in a bucket with eggs on top"

[Valin]

Oh this is going to go over REAL GOOD in South Carolina!

[elli1]

I gotta' say this for Howie--at least he's keeping his clothes on. Not only is his shirt buttoned up, but his jacket is zipped! (Is there something significant about wearing black n' white?)

[JoJo Gunn]

[weegee]

This gives new meaning to the term "Deanie Weenies".