An "Uncle Bruce"
Meanwhile, Rick Santorum, perhaps the most intolerant member of the Senate, turns out to have a gay chief of staff/communications director. When asked how a gay man could speak for someone with Santorum's record of homophobia, Robert Traynham said "Senator Santorum is a man of principle, he is a man who sticks up for what he believes in." Hmm. There has to be word for a gay Uncle Tom. Uncle Bruce? Mr. Traynham wins the weekly Uncle Bruce award.
[Gene Stone, "Flying Below the Gaydar", The Huffington Post, 21 July 2005.]
In: All, Common-Place Book, Raised Eyebrows Dept.
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I welcome comments -- even dissent -- but I will delete without notice irrelevant, rude, psychotic, or incomprehensible comments, particularly those that I deem homophobic, unless they are amusing. The same goes for commercial comments and trackbacks. Sorry, but it's my blog and my decisions are final.
on Tuesday, 26 July 2005 at 17.32
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In today's cutthroat economy — one, regrettably, Santorum and people of like mind have done so much to fashion — a person takes a well-paying job where a well-paying job can be landed.
I reckon it's either that or Santorum's aide puts right-wing ideology ahead of sexual identity in his personal priorities.