[lbo-talk] "Stupid Gay Men on the Left"

Joel Wendland joelrw at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 2 05:36:00 PDT 2004


But at the same time your "stupid" gay men might understand quite well what Bush has given and has to offer us. And perhaps they see that voting for Nader will win us nothing and continue us on the present course. (Is this a version of the same dead horse being beaten with a queer stick?)

Joel Wendland http://www.politicalaffairs.net http://classwarnotes.blogspot.com

Yoshie wrote:


>It doesn't make any political sense for left-wing gay men to support a
>pro-war straight white male candidate who *opposes* the equal right to
>marriage for queers as well as straights and instead offers *second-class
>marriage* called "civil union" to placate us, rather than an anti-war
>straight Arab male candidate who, *despite* his notorious prudishness which
>makes him pooh-pooh "corporate pornography" (foreign or domestic),
>*supports* the equal right to marriage for all. Maybe we need a new book
>that analyzes the contortions of gay men on the left who feel they have to
>support John Kerry but have *nothing* good to say about him, so they have
>to settle for bashing Nader who has a better position on today's hottest
>queer issue than Kerry. The working title of the book might be "Stupid Gay
>Men on the Left" (an apology to Michael Moore!).

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