so fucking lame

Garrison Keillor: A Prairie Homophobic Companion? - TMZ.com

"In an article titled "Stating the Obvious" in salon.com, the Minnesota author wrote, 'The country has come to accept stereotypical gay men -- sardonic fellows with fussy hair who live in over-decorated apartments with a striped sofa and a small weird dog and who worship campy performers and go in for flamboyance now and then themselves. If they want to be accepted as couples and daddies, however, the flamboyance may have to be brought under control. Parents are supposed to stand in back and not wear chartreuse pants and black polka-dot shirts.'"

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the "GLBT community" (which i am a part of) needs to get over this crap. as do the ACLU and other liberals that think they should legislate what everyone thinks and says in defense of gays, and every person that's not a "straight white male." "patriarchy, blah, blah blah" this is life, this is America, they've got a right to say it, and others have the right to say they're idiots. or fire them because they don't want them representing their company.

this "hate speech" thing is snowballing out of control. a slippery slope, as they say. people can be prejudiced and bigoted if they choose to, or never get past their lousy upbringing. i don't think it helps anybody's cause to whine about every "slur" that some b-list celebrity or basketball player makes. i thought the ACLU and the left in general wanted to PROTECT the 1st amendment, not chip away at it. i will continue saying and thinking whatever i damned well please, and i hope everybody else does too. at least you can find out that they're a-holes easily that way.

we're living through a time when a kid takes her school to court because she was disciplined and teased for saying "that's so gay." a comment uttered by about 1/2 to 3/4 of kids and teens in the US daily, and without hatred behind it. it's an expression, and in time, it will fade to more infrequent use. everybody's just losing their mind over this stuff. and i tell you what, if, God forbid, some crazy politician makes a law against some words, and Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock can't use the dreaded "n-word" anymore - screw it, i'm moving to Canada.

when you begin to curtail speech that "someone" finds offensive (the terrorists win!), that's just the beginning. first go the "hate" words, then some that make people "uncomfortable," then what?

"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings." - Heinrich Heine

i've listened to G. Keillor enough (his story about the church ushers competition is one of the funniest things i can remember hearing) that i would bet that he didn't mean any of it in a disparaging way. and for those saying he was "branding all gay men as trendy fashionistas.....," please note - he said "The country has come to accept stereotypical gay men..." the key word there is *stereotypical*. in the eyes of a huge chunk of America, when they think of gay men, that's what they imagine. not to mention thinking they're hedonistic, drug using sluts. sadly, that's a very accurate description of a segment of the community. i hope that in coming generations, as acceptance of gays grows, maybe there won't be so many gay guys who hate themselves for being gay and try to self-destruct and lose themselves in those ways, often without even realizing it.

i think all Keillor was saying is that we need to work on our image. there are plenty of us that are family men and women. these are the people that need to be "out" the most. because we don't get the attention - it all goes to the club guys and the ones who wear thongs and chaps to gay pride, or those damned guys dressed up like nuns with beards in freaky face paint/makeup (i'm not even Catholic, but that creeps me the hell out). the news flocks to that because it's titillating and flamboyant and a lot more interesting to report on than the average citizens that live average lives, and happen to be gay. the fact is, we need to be more visible simply as human beings, not just sex-crazed Peter Pan types. that should start with our own shows and media, but that's another story.

in a nutshell: get over it