Please, Call Me Rod

It seems to me that the Republican party has two options when it comes to their homosexual menace:

  1. Purge the party of all known and unknown homos; the difficult part, as recent history has shown, is the "unknown homos" bit; or
  2. Recognize that fags happen and go with the flow; they needn't, of course, participate in homosexual orgies — unless they want to.

This all comes to mind while I'm reading today a bit more background about the recent, somewhat eventful Conservative Political Action Convention, the one at which Ms. A. Coulter now infamously referred to John Edwards with the word "faggot".

Well, the new story, which I'm finding hard to keep straight on the details (fortunately, Max Blumenthal has it all: "CPAC's Gay Porn Star Honoree, Ann Coulter, and the Politics of Personal Crisis"), involves in addition to the flip-flopping Romney (who loved fags before he hated them), who introduced the Queen of Faggotry herself, a new arch-conservative force, former Marine Cpl. Matt Sanchez, who won the Jeanne Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award at this year's CPAC.

Well, it seems that Cpl. Sanchez had an earlier career in gay porn, in which he was known as Rod Majors (if only they'd hire me to create names, gay porn stars wouldn't all have ridiculously stupid names). Evidently he's also worked as a gay escort. Shall we stroll arm-in-arm down the Jeff Gannon Lane of Memories?

As you know, I certainly don't find anything wrong with gay porn stars. I do, however, find something wrong with gay porn stars becoming darlings of the homo-hating right wing. Tsk, tsk. As Mr. Blumenthal put it:

There is of course nothing inherently wrong with Sanchez being a gay porn star or a male escort. His past is only notable because he chose to join a movement that exploits anti-gay sentiment for political gain. Coulter's now-famous "faggot" remark was not an aberration, but rather a symbol of the politics of resentment that propels the conservative movement and its elected Republican surrogates; a reflection of the bigotry conservatives have sought to write into the Constitution through the so-called Federal Marriage Amendment. The ascendant "family values" wing of the right is also responsible for sabotaging legislation allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the armed forces, a maneuver that may now spell the end of Sanchez's career.

Update a couple of hours later: You might enjoy the photo of Rod and AC together, plus the additional details, at Towleroad: "Conservatives Laud Gay Porn Star Marine", where Andy Towle reports that he actually dated Sanchez a couple of times.

Posted on March 7, 2007 at 13.43 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Plus Ca Change..., Raised Eyebrows Dept.

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Wednesday, 7 March 2007 at 16.45
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    The CPAC crowd epitomizes the worst what's so sociopathological about these folks. It goes well beyond differing notions about politics and public policy.

    I'm going to indulge in a little cross pollinating here because, IMO, it fits so well here. The following is from a comment of mine at Donkey Path.

    I strongly believe what's at work here is a powerful underlying motivation that's responsible for the visceral-level political division in this country.

    I'm referring to pure, damned spite — George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove as sharp sticks in the eyes of all the folks the people in Bush's political base not only oppose politically but hate.

    It's the same motivation that makes Ann Coulter, Michele Malkin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and others of their kind financially successful icons of the far right/Christian fundamentalist right.

    As for Sanchez receiving an award from CPAC, I'm left wondering who's zooming whom.

  2. Written by rightsaidfred
    on Thursday, 8 March 2007 at 07.37
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    As a Republican operative in my spare time, I just hope Sanchez was a good porn star.

    We seem to have "tyranny of the minority" at work here. I would say most Republicans either advocate for homosexuals, or don't care about the issue.

    However, even though a minority faction advocates the anti gay marriage issue, they do have a point, and that lets them drive some of the policy. The pathologies in hetero marriage is bad enough, but gay unions are more generally marked by higher rates of domestic violence and higher incidences of child sexual abuse. This is the best I judge from what I've read, but the research here is often politically driven.

    Partly for these reasons, it is difficult for traditionalists to accept gay marriage as a part of mainstream society.

  3. Written by jns
    on Thursday, 8 March 2007 at 12.43
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    I'm glad to hear, Fred, your feeling that most Republicans at least don't care much about the issue, which I think is generally a reasonable attitude. I don't typically expect your average straight person to think very much at all about the gay issues that concern me quite a bit, so I tend to be surprised by the passionately homophobic.

    Instead of waving my hands and dismissing the "research" you cite, I'll go along with you that much of it (on both sides) is politically motivate, and trust that you'll see the truth emerge eventually that comes closer to my sense of reality about how everyday gay domestic life is — at least mine!

    These are reasons that some people give why they find it difficult to accept gay marriage, but I believe they are really excuses that cover up much deeper, more atavistic responses. Which means, unfortunately, that while the "debate" tries to appear rational it is almost entirely emotional.

  4. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Friday, 9 March 2007 at 00.02
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    Many years ago the American Psychiatric Association created a stir when it declared homosexuality is not a mental illness or abnormality and is not sexual deviancy, except in the statistical sense. Didn't the association at the same time note the incidence of pedophilia is no greater among homosexuals than among heterosexuals? I'm pretty sure it did.

  5. Written by chris
    on Saturday, 10 March 2007 at 22.32
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    our favourite marine cum porn star was on the radio recently – a clip available here:

    http://americablog.blogspot.com/2007/03/alan-colmes-ties-gop-marine-hero.html

    where he claims to have left all that behind him 15 y ago (though the interviewer found that the latest porn film was 9y ago, and his "masseur" service had an ad up as recently as 3y ago.

    oh yes, and he's definitely not gay. and most of his clients weren't gay. even though he fucked them in the arse. not gay, no sir, no way.

    as someone has pointed out, he is a republican's dream: he CHOSE to do gay for his own financial reward.

    it's a fun interview, listening to him twist in the wind.

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