Conservative Queers Need Self Respect
What in the world, many of us wonder, is really the driving force behind all those Log Cabin Republicans? I know, I've listened for too many years to rationalizations that go along these lines: "Some of us [i.e., conservative queers] just feel that there are more important things than our private sexuality."
There are (at least) two things wrong with that idea, of course: 1) there is nothing "private" about our sexuality when the anti-gay forces are always willing to holler and point and drag us through the mud just to raise a buck under their Jesus banner; and 2) what is more important than life & liberty when the anti-gay hate groups really would rather see us dead?
For a few years there, some of us lefty fags were willing to believe that maybe, just maybe, the con-queers believe so deeply in smaller government and libertarian values that perhaps we should cut them some slack. However, the last two elections have made it clear that that can't be the reason.
This rumination all came about because Shakespeare's Sister said (in reference to the moral theatre of the absurd that is conservative queers in "More on Outed Spokane Mayor Jim West")
Get with the program, conservative queers. They not only don’t want you in their party; they hate you. Have some self respect and get the fuck out of that party.
They'll kick and they'll scream and they'll button down their collars ever more tightly and claim it isn't so at the top of their lungs with their hands clapped over their ears, but that's still the answer: they ain't got no self respect. Self-hatred, queer loathing, bad body image, internalized homophobia, whatever: they ain't got no self respect.
Guys, you've had plenty of time to learn the lesson by now, so get over yourselves, get over your issues, and get some self respect. For yourself. Next week might be too late.