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The mind o f the mail animal
E-mail from anonymous hetero offers a disturbing glimpse into the
'gays-against-straights' mindset that keeps communities divided
I received an interesting e-mail
this morning. So interesting, in
fact, that I've decided to share it
right now. I'd be doing the
LGBT community a disservice if
I didn't pass along such an
insightful piece of work.
The writer declined to sign the
paragraph-length note. All I had
was an AOL address, and since I
use AOL too, I looked up the
writer's member profile.
Based on the tone of the mis-
sive, I had already suspected he's
Leslie Robinson General Gayety
a guy. His profile didn't confirm this, but I don't
think many women would choose as their per-
sonal quote, "If you want the ultimate, you have
to be willing to pay the ultimate price."
I fear my correspondent is G. Gordon Liddy or
Oliver North.
Whoever he is, he lives in the U.S., is single,
and enjoys sports, reading, music and "intellectu-
al conversation." He began his intellectual con-
versation with me by typing "hey heterophobe"
into the subject line.
I've placed the other pearls he proceeded to
offer in italics:
Hey you straight-bashingfi-eak.
And a pleasant good morning to you, too.
Isn't it fanny that the whiny, sensitive, sissy
homosexuals who always ay about intolerance,
end up being the most intolerant of any once they
get a little bit of power in little tiny parcels of
land spread out through the coun-
try?
You left out "faggotty." I can
only guess that you mean when
laws to protect every citizen are
passed, those who yearn to dis-
criminate feel their rights have
been infringed. Yes? No? You'll
have to help this whiny freak
understand.
Can you IMAGINE if gays ever
became 15-20% of the population
Good heavens no.
Admit it . . . you gays hate
straights and if it was possible . . . you'd make
straight people adopt gay ways ... or else,
I admit no such thing. We gays don't hate
straights. Most of us come from straight parents,
have straight siblings and friends. Certainly there
are individual straights we don't like, but that's
because they're none too fond of us.
As to making straights adopt gay ways, is this
again a reference to the notion of gays treading
on individual freedoms? Being thought police?
Political-correctness Nazis? Or do you actually
believe we want to force you to get it on with
your racquetball partner?
Or maybe to you adopting gay ways means
you'd be required to use hair products and wear
designer clothes? Fear not. So far gay men
haven't even been able to induce lesbians to do
that.
Thank GOODness homosexuals aren't in
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice did something that
spokesmen /or the Christian Right found ^distressing1
and "appalling." What was it?
sent racy
e-mailsto
the Foreign Minister
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1 AM TRULY HONORED AND
DELIGHTED fO SWEAR IN
MARK DYBUL AS OUR NEXT
GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR.
IN -THE PRESENCE OF MARK'S ,
PARENTS, CLAIRE & RICHARD;
HIS PAR-fNER, JASON; AND
HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW,
MARILYN.
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She was
courteous
a gay man's
family.
power and man-hating lesbians don't rule the
day.
As you implied earlier, more and more gays
are creeping into power. Furthermore, closeted
gays have always held positions of power, all
over the world and throughout time. Bet that
gives your willy the willies.
Answer me . . . if there was a gay president
(either a sissy male homosexual or a tough les-
bian), what land of laws would you set down for
straights?
Any out gay male who achieved the presiden-
cy couldn't possibly be a sissy, considering all
he'd have to endure. Ditto for any lesbian, or for
that matter, any woman.
Laws for straights? Please. The only policy a
gay president would have toward straights is not
to sleep with one.
But since I doubt that satisfies you, I'll say a
homosexual president would demand Congress
pass laws against public heterosexual conduct.
To be followed by laws against private hetero-
sexual conduct. Then, no thinking straight
allowed. No walking in a straight line.
Finally, no American shall ever again get
straight to the point.
How's that?
Leslie Robinsons columns are available
online at wnw.GeneralGayety.com
E-mail LesfiQhinsn0aolcom
letters
Article unfair to Heche
I wanted to respond after reading the article by Daniel
Kushner regarding Nancy Heche's memoir ("Maybe Anne
Heche wasn't so crazy after all," Dallas Voice, Oct. 13).
I did contact him to forward information on Nancy
Heche's book as she was traveling to Dallas for some
media interviews.
Mr. Kushner's interpretation of being "jerked around"
is humorous to me as he was never promised an interview,
and after the first conversation I found him to be short on
patience and long on accusations. I could have ignored his
phone calls, emails and request for the book, but I did not.
I had a suspicion that Mr. Kushner would not write a
favorable article because of his over-aggressive and pushy
attitude toward me.
He may not realize that, as a publicity firm, we have
several clients and are in contact with countless media out-
lets and in most cases, other firms would have ignored him
after his attitude and tone became negative.
I understand journalism (I worked for several years as
a journalist) and I understand his desire for attention, and
not necessarily gaining respect, through his column I am
surprised that a "legitimate journalist" would have the
negative feelings toward an individual that he does not
know or has not met as he does toward Nancy Heche.
That only makes me question if Mr. Kushner embodies
the prejudicial attitude that many in the gay community
believe the Christian community demonstrates.
It is apparent that Mr. Kushner did not understand the
message of Nancy's memoir — how she survived many
trials in her life (including the death of three of her children
which he failed to include) and her own heart's transfor-
mation toward the homosexual community.
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She also boldly shares the many mistakes and the pain
she dealt with from choices she made and how they
impacted her family.
Her message is not judgmental or preachy, but one of
love and understanding.
I believe Mr. Kushner's personal bias tainted his view
of her message and is apparent in his article which is a dis-
service to your readers.
Mr. Kushner wrote: "An interview with Dallas Voice
was never scheduled — I suspect because in the past few
weeks, gay media outlets across the country had already
been tipped off about the "hate the sin" tone of the book,
which has been rightfully slammed."
He knows the reason I did not schedule an interview,
and his suspicions are inaccurate.
I answered his question regarding Nancy and Anne's
communication. He apparently has trouble retaining
answers that have been provided to him.
Rather than focusing on a "she said — she said" article
between Anne and Nancy's individual books and the fact
he has not personally interviewed either one of them and
has no idea what has changed since the release of Anne's
book, he might have been better suited to limit his judg-
ments and better understand the true message of the book
Ben Laurro
Pure Publicity
Editor's response: Life+ Style Editor Daniel Kusner —
whose name is correctly spelled "Kusner" and not
"Kushner" — stands by his original report and his asser-
tion that Nancy Heche still promotes the ex-gay movement
and is now trying to infiltrate gay media outlets with anti-
gay bigotry disguised as love and acceptance. To support
his assertion, Kusner notes that over the course of six
weeks, Ben Laurro sent him a hand-written note and at
least nine e-mails and spoke with him three times on the
phone in an effort to schedule an interview with Nancy
Heche during her Oct. 2-3 visit to North Texas. During this
exchange, Laurro requested Kusner send him a list of
questions he had in mind for the interview. Kusner told
Laurro he only had one: Why doesn't Nancy address the
primary point of Anne Heche's memoir — "Call Me
Crazy" — that Anne was incestuously abused by her clos-
etedfather, Don Heche, and that Nancy never apologized
for, dealt with or acknowledged her daughter's anguish.
Laurro said he couldn't subject Nancy — a college-level
instructor and a practicing psychotherapist, who appar-
ently has a doctorate in theology — to such a question,
that Nancy has been through too much already. And as for
Nancy's message of "love and understanding" for the gay
community, here's a quote from Nancy's book: "Don's
father [Anne's grandfather] was a bum. He was unshaven
and reeked of beer and cigarettes — the classic profile of
the father of a homosexual man, as I learned much later."
Why was Libertarian left out
Why does your online poll (Speak Out Poll, Dallas
\bice and www.DallasVoice.com, Oct. 20,) exclude one
of the candidates for governor, but includes all the rest?
"Why the discrimination?
In case you aren't aware, the other candidate that is on
the ballot is Libertarian James Werner.
Mike Nelson
Allen
Time for gays to head for 'Pink States'
It is time for gay Americans to consider moving to
"Pink States" that have passed state-wide non-discrimina-
tion laws covering sexual orientation.
Gays and lesbians must vote with their feet — and that
means moving out of states that have not provided gays
and lesbians with the basic protections that have been pro-
vided to other groups who have been discriminated against
in the past.
There are only 17 "Pink States" in the nation, more than
half of which are in the northeast. The Northeast "pocket
of protection" includes Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey and Maryland. The Midwest "pocket of pro-
tection" includes Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin, and
the Western pocket includes California, Nevada,
Washington, New Mexico and Hawaii.
The recent trend to refer to states as either "Red" or
"Blue" is not relevant to gay and lesbian Americans who
face discrimination simply because of whom they choose
to love. As long as protections are being offered to groups
who have been discriminated against in the past, I believe
gay and lesbian Americans should definitely be included
on that list, and if a state refuses to add sexual orientation
to the list of those protected, gays should consider moving
to the relative safety provided by a "Pink State."
Libertarians do not believe the government should be
involved in discrimination of any kind against its citizens,
and the time for ending discrimination against gay and les-
bian Americans is long past due.
Dr. Tom Stevens, executive director
Stonewall Libertarians
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