"It's taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life. Everybody has their own path to travel, their own journey, and for me, over the past few months, I've told my family, friends, former colleagues, and current colleagues, and they've been wonderful and supportive. The process has been something that's made me a happier and better person. It's something I wish I had done years ago. I wish I was where I am today 20 years ago. The process of not being able to say who I am in public life was very difficult. No one else knew this except me. My family didn't know. My friends didn't know. Anyone who watched me knew I was a guy who was clearly uncomfortable with the topic."
This is, of course, utter horse shit. He took his boyfriend to Bush inaugural events and Mike Rogers called him on it. He's been out among his Republican friends for years. It just sounds more palatable to talk about his tortured "journey." Gay hate is passe in right-wing circles now, and he's joining Beck, Coulter and O'Reilly as rats abandoning a sinking ship.
I'm all for everyone having their own journey, God knows I had mine, but I have no sympathy for fags who screwed us for profit by day and screwed their boyfriends by night.
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Yet again the evidence is there: you don't have to be straight to hate on gays.
Amen. I second that emotion. Ken Mehlman is/was a coward. with apologies to my friends who are still in the closet, they too are cowards.
I came out when I was 21 years old (1963) was before it was fashionable. In fact I put my life in danger in addition to being arrested because declaring my a homosexual, I was breaking the law.
I've paid the price for coming out at such an early age (career wise and friend wise - but did I want those "friends" anyway?) but I have never regretted my decision one second.
I have zero respect for anyone who is still in the closet, especially today's age of more openness. Harvey Milk had it right. If everyone, EVERYONE who is gay came out, homophobia would cease overnight.
That will probably not happen in my lifetime. These cowards only imprison themselves by their cowardice. Ken Mehlman? You got it just right. Fuck him.
WHat a pile of bullshit. This smells like something from the past. Mosy of us gays remember Roy Cohn the attorney who became well known during the Senator Joseph McCarthy era. He was a piece of work, and lived in denial for years until AIDS took his life in 1986. He can come out but his SOUL will always be rotten. I am so pissed off!!!
BTW, I came out when I was to young to know what I was. It was my emotion not my sexul desire. All I knew is, I'm not the crazy one in this bowl of nuts.
People stay in the closet for many reasons. It's a personal decision, albeit an unfortunate one.
But the utter asshole-ness of being in the closet and actively working to oppress gays and lesbians is evil. At the very least it's a mental illness.
But Mehlman is another case altogether. A "country club fag" I'll call it. Out to his evil bosses and doing their bidding. Selling his self-hatred to the powerful elite for some form of acceptance. Not understanding that he's being used and despised by the very people he admires. Not understanding that he and anyone he manages to love will never be fully accepted by the crowd he'd like to run with.
It's sad. And evil.
PERFECTLY STATED
"I'm all for everyone having their own journey, God knows I had mine, but I have no sympathy for fags who screwed us for profit by day and screwed their boyfriends by night."
AMEN.
We all make our own decisions but to me anyone who stays in the closet is a coward, simple as that. This is all bullshit that we "all have our personal journey." Either you come out or you don't. If you don't it's because you're afraid of losing your job, and/or losing friends and family. The only way we're going to overcome homophobia in this world is for everyone, EVERYONE to come out to friends, family and co-workers. Once these homophobes realize that we're just like them then the homophobia (ignorance) will end. You can have all the Gay Pride parades in the world and have a grand old time camping it up but none of that will do as much good as the simple fact of coming out. To those of you who are STILL IN THE CLOSET, grow a PAIR and COME OUT FOR CHRISSAKE!
Spoken by a man who came out in 1963 people! It was not safe anywhere, yet he chose to live an honest life of integrity. I salute you, Ron.
And I salute you also.
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