Anti-gay activists involved in gay scandals:

[Zorra]

all the funniest on one website

There are few things more satisfying in life than seeing hypocrites exposed, so it is with great joy that I award my inaugural (and, probably, only) Website of the Week award to the magnificent gayhomophobe.com. Hat tip to The Guardian's Ben Goldacre.

You might have noticed over the past few years a tendency for prominent US anti-gay politicians and public figures to have found themselves in a compromising position with a comely young chap or three, before suddenly disappearing out of view for a while to spend time with their family and examine their souls. Gayhomophobe.com helpfully allows you to keep up to date with the latest such revelations, and gives the number of days since a well-known anti-homosexual activist became involved in a gay sex scandal.

The latest – and holder of the top spot for the last 11 days – was Senator Roberto Arango of the Puerto Rican Republican Party, who resigned after apparently posting (remarkably explicit) photos of himself on the gay cruising website Grindr. Mr Arango, who recently voted for a move to block any legalisation of gay marriage in Puerto Rico, says that he can't remember taking the photos, but that they may have been to demonstrate his recent weight loss, presumably in particular around and between his buttocks.

Before that, the honour was held by Representative Philip Hinkle (R) – for a mere 17 days – and, before him, the Reverend Albert Odulele, for a rather more impressive 133 days. The longest run at number one – longer even than Bryan Adams with (Everything I Do) I Do It For You – was, at 851 days, that of Glenn Murphy Jr, the chairman of the Clark County Republican Party in Indiana, who spent time in jail after pleading guilty to "performing unwanted oral sex on a man". Mr Murphy had previously supported and promoted candidates with anti-gay positions.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100103755/anti-gay-activists-involved-in-gay-scandals-all-the-funniest-on-one-website/

LOL. "Anti-gay positions" don't sound like much fun to me at all!

Seriously though, IMO, this is just the tip of the iceberg; how many sad people are out there that have LGBT proclivities, but have been afraid to express their LGBT selves because of the social stigma applied to being LGBT that is primarily based on a few sentences found in a few big books that were written long ago. People living in constant fear that someone might find out that they are really, just naturally, LGBT. They then project their fear into repressive action, bigotry, hate, violence and persecution, toward/of/against completely innocent people.

I humbly ask all my progressive sisters and brothers to, please, actively help eliminate the social stigma so tragically applied to folks that are LGBT. Please help the LGBT community by supporting and advocating for LGBT rights.

Please, actively accelerate the elimination of homophobia from our collective social consciousness whenever possible.

Thanks.

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Vacationing in Province town the last 20yrs where people are un-closeted

J.Edgar ,Roy Cohn and Arango TYPES are the problem and openly Gay & Lesbian PEOPLE , are the cure.

[Zorra]

2. Yes, but only part of the cure.

We really need more active support from aware non-LGBT folks.

There are only so many of us that are out.