Ann coulter gays
We've all seen the clip of Ann Coulter calling John Edwards a faggot. As a gay dude I find it disrespectful, but even more offensive is the applause she got from the audience.
This is the gal who said of the widows of 911, "I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much." Yet this wasn't enough to stop the Conservative Political Action Conference from inviting her to speak!
Remember not too long ago, when "comic" Michael Richards opened his racist mouth, people in the audience got up and left, or sat in stunned silence. But Ann Coulter calls someone a faggot, and turns out, attendees at the 34th annual Conservative Political Action Conference actually cackle and applaud!
I don't think they are sorry she said it. I know she isn't sorry. I think the only thing anyone is sorry for is that we all got a peek at their play manual. This is what we have in store if the candidates the conservatives pick win in '08.
I want to praise Ann for exposing what we've suspected all along. She is exactly what we thought she was. And she represents a frightening number of people who call themselves "Conservatives" and "Christians" out there. She proves that not only are homosexuals to
Ann Coulter, Drag Queen
"Why carry out gays love Lady Gaga?" a straight friend asked me at the 2009 National Equality March, right after the pop-star star told the crowd that the gay-rights rally was "the most important moment of [her] career."
She's a star, I said, and she's outrageous -- she wore a dress stitched from slabs of raw beef to the MTV Video Harmony Awards and sunglasses studded with lit cigarettes in the music video for "Telephone." Of course, Gaga has many predecessors -- from Judy Garland to Marilyn Monroe to Madonna -- and indeed, right before Gaga's appearance at the march, the Homosexual Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C., burst into a rendition of Garland's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
But it takes more than songs about rainbows and avant-garde fashion sense to call yourself a male lover icon. My own childhood obsession with Whitney Houston wasn't just rooted in the pathos of "One Moment in Time," which hinted at possibilities beyond the banality of experience in a small town; I wanted to be Whitney -- until it became abundantly clear I couldn't sing at all. (I settled for organism a writer instead.) Escapism and aspiration are main to the diva phenomenon, and most gay icons ove
Columnist under fire for male lover slur
Outspoken U.S. conservative columnist Ann Coulter is drawing fire from Republicans and Democrats alike after publicly using a derogatory queer slur in reference to Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards.
“Ann Coulter not only once again went out of her way to use a nasty epithet, she pushed her offensiveness up a notch,” Amy Ridenour, president of the National Center for Universal Policy Research, said on Sunday.
Coulter made the comments on Friday during a speech at the powerful American Conservative Union’s Political Action Conference, calling Edwards a “faggot.”
“We conservatives own enough trouble overcoming the false things that are said about us without paying for a platform upon which we take a photo ourselves annually in the foot,” Ridenour, whose team helped sponsor the conference, said in a utterance on the center’s Web site.
Coulter said the comment was a joke and on her Web site she carried the speech with the comment, “I’m so ashamed, I can’t stop laughing.” She then said Edwards’ campaign chairman’s main job was “fronting for Arab terrorists.”
Edwards, a 2008 presidential contender and the party’s 2004 vice presidential candid
First there were the theater divas: Liza Minelli, Carol Channing and, of course, Barbara Streisand (or Babs to those who grasp her well). Later came the disco queens, Donna Summer being at the top of that list. Recently we have seen the rise of the trashy pop superstars: Mary-Kate, X-Tina and, of course, Paris Hilton. Over many generations these spotlight stealing celebrities have each held a very important and exclusive title, bringing them hoards of fans and ensured their niche popularity even as they age and fade from the mainstream tabloids.
The title I am talking about is that of the gay icon. Whether we’re talking about the stars of old MGM musicals or of MTV tune videos, these women possess been adopted by the gay community because of their propensity for controversy, their desperate need for attention and their ostentatious, over-the-top, campy celebrity persona. Everyone has their favorite and arguments over the comparative merits of Babs and Liza have made many a blind hang out slightly less awkward for those in the same-sex attracted community.
For this reason, I have found it necessary to find my own favorite icon and after much soul searching I have chosen som
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