And by the way it is not all gays. Some of us gays think making an
issue of Hernandez being gay is stupid and misguided. Accept the man
for the hero he is and let it go at that. It is only those gays who
have no life other than being gay who are trying to ride Hernandez's
coat tails and trying to bask in his heroism who are pushing for his
gayness being an issue.
On 01/13/2011 04:43 PM, frankg wrote:
What makes them second class? Hernandez seems to be doing extremely
well with his life and his career. No one has said "he's not a hero,
he's gay". The only ones who have made his being gay an issue are
other gays.
And I never said - let alone insist - that he should hide in a closet.
What I, and many others have said, is that there was no need to
mention he was gay as it had no bearing on what he did that day. You
actually demean him and his accomplishments but making his being gay
an issue, as if the accomplishment was only notable because he's gay.
On Jan 13, 3:02 pm, Tommy News<[email protected]> wrote:
Frank-
Gays and LBTs are indeed second class, unequal citizens.
That is the truth, and it is indeed a shame.
Hernandez is openly gay, and is not ashamed of that.
You should be ashamed for insisting that he hide it and go back in the closet.
On 1/13/11, frankg<[email protected]> wrote:
It's a shame a member of the gay community is calling him a second
class citizen. I've not heard anyone from the heterosexual community
say anything like that... they all seem to be quite content treating
him as a genuine hero and overall good guy. In fact, if not for the
gay community calling him out, I'm not sure anyone would have even
known he was gay. Go figure.
On Jan 13, 1:28 pm, dick thompson<[email protected]> wrote:
Did he congratulate him on being gay and actually being a hero or did he
just call him a hero without reference to his being gay. If the latter
then obviously Obama is a homophobe.
On 01/13/2011 11:45 AM, Tommy News wrote:
President Obama calls gay intern who helped save Giffords' life a hero
by GoPride.com News Staff
Tucson, Ariz. During a memorial for the Tucson shooting victims on
Wednesday, President Obama singled out the heroes from that day,
including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' gay intern, Daniel Hernandez.
Hernandez had only been working for Giffords for five days when the
shooting started on Saturday.
20-year-old Hernandez was volunteering at the community event and was
standing just feet away from Giffords when Jared Loughner opened fire
on the congresswoman. Hernandez immediately rushed to her side and
tried to comfort her.
"We are grateful to Daniel Hernandez," President Obama said. "Daniel,
I am sorry, you may deny it, but you are a hero, but we have decided
you are a hero. Because you ran through the chaos to minister to your
boss, and helped keep her alive."
Hernandez, who was seated in the front row next to the President,
stood awkwardly as the President showered praise on him. Hernandez
smiled shyly, and then sat back down.
During the memorial for the victims, Obama also recognized the other
heroes from the day, including the woman who grabbed the magazine clip
before Loughner could jam it back into the gun, and the men who
tackled him until police arrived.
"When I heard gunshots, my first instinct was to head towards the
congresswoman to make sure that she was OK," Daniel Hernandez
Hernandez told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.
"I had to lift up the congresswoman, because she was severely injured,
and I wanted to make sure that she was able to breathe OK because
there was so much blood," he said. "We had to grab whatever we could.
And because we were outside of a grocery store, the employees from the
grocery store brought out smocks that are used by the meat department
that were clean, so that we may use them as bandages, because that was
really the only clean cloth that we had."
"The congresswoman was alert. She was able to hold my hand when I
asked her if she could hear me," said Hernendez.
Hernandez, a junior at the University of Arizona, is gay and is a
member of the City of Tucson Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and
Transgender Issues. "She's been a great ally to the LGBT community,"
Hernandez said of Giffords during an interview with the Dallas Voice.
Giffords is a member of the House LGBT Equality Caucus and is a strong
supporter of gay rights, including gay marriage.
Six people, including a 9-year-old girl, were killed on Saturday.
More:
http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/15827089/presid...
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