--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <j_alexander_stan...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Alex, are there conservative gays? > > Yep. For example, the Log Cabinettes: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Cabin_Republicans
I've just been reading about a new gay conservative group, GOProud.org. The Log Cabin guys are really moderate Republicans, whereas the GOProud group is more movement conservative--"Draft Cheney 2012" conservative. They're small yet, only about 2,000 members, but allegedly growing fast: http://goproud.org/ Two recent pieces in Mother Jones about how the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is dealing with them: http://motherjones.com/mojo/2009/12/are-gay-conservatives-welcome-cpac http://tinyurl.com/yhrcq6s http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/02/cpac-goes-gay After some resistance, GOProud ended up as one of the co-sponsors of the CPAC meeting that ends today. But here's a surprising development from Salon: "CPAC Crowd Boos a Homophobe Off Stage" (with video) http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/02/19/cpac_gays/index.html http://tinyurl.com/y86xyv6 No kidding, this is pretty amazing. (I'm not sure whether to be thrilled that these conservatives are resisting homophobia, or depressed that there are gays conservative enough to have become an issue at that meeting.)
