What overhype. So it’s Jesse Helms’s granddaughter, who’s running for a district judge position in North Carolina.
This is exciting?
The Tin Man
What overhype. So it’s Jesse Helms’s granddaughter, who’s running for a district judge position in North Carolina.
This is exciting?
Of course it’s exciting.
What is it with these reactionaries and their lesbian offspring?
Jesse Helms isn’t even a sitting senator anymore and can’t affect policy. I think it was overhyped.
Tinman is right – it was way way WAY overhyped. “One of the biggest GLBT news stories of the decade”? oh c’mon! Yes, it’s news that a lesbian is in the closet and USING her most famous BIGOT grandfather as a springboard for political office; yes, she should be ashamed of herself, and called to task for it; but NO – it’s not a big story, and it will no doubt go nowhere. The congressman story, while old (he was first outed, and the story mostly ignored, 12 years ago) MIGHT have had some impact if it had been out there in time for someone to OPPOSE the guy in that race in Louisiana – now its just another story that will get no traction, as he is unopposed in his re-elction campaign. DEFINATELY OVERHYPED.
Oh please. Yet another lesbian offspring of right-wing homophobe is “overhyped”? How many more of them are there? No end in sight as far as I can tell.
Out them ALL!
My grandmother was the elected Republican township treasurer and I’m gay. How come I can’t get any headlines like that? Well, maybe I don’t need that kind of publicity.
If his granddaughter were operating some S&M cabal in her grandfather’s carriage house, then yes, that might be big-news. This sure ain’t.
Gay blogger-press: desperately seeking good journalism.
rob@egoz.org
Nope it’s always news. Gays and lesbians are anathema to the Republican party. We’re “biological errors” or “sinners” or “deviants” and there’s really supposed to be very very few of us — even if the presence of so much as one of us can’t be tolerated.
Except for Mary Cheney, of course, but we’re not supposed to talk about that either.
Well if you want to put up with the status quo, fine. Crawl back into the closet and let the rest of us run the world. We don’t need you.
And then there’s… underhyped?
http://www.phillymag.com/ArticleDisplay.php?id=437
That’s a fascinating story. The key line: “There is indeed a press bias at work here, but it’s not homophobia, exactly.”
Actually it IS homophobia exactly. Reluctance to deal with th truth, and the entire system that encourages such reluctance, is designed to maintain the closet. They say “privacy” when they mean secrecy. “Privacy” would presumably help you, but it’s secrecy that the system wants in order to maintain the power of the closet.
But those days are over and McGreevey proves it.