"Two hours of "you're gay?" Haven't we all had enough of this in middle school?"It's almost always a mistake to treat children as though they are merely smaller adults. I've also learned, slowly and not a little painfully, that it's often a mistake to assume that adults are anything but larger children.
"Hey, President Obama," he spits out the name like a mouthful of burning hair. "You ain't black. I don't care what you say—you're a latte. You're half whole-milk. It could be goat milk—you could be a terrorist!"Christ, what an asshole.
At other points during the show, Gallagher says, "Men and women can't live in the same house" and "There's no way men and women can have a relationship." He says he can't remember why he used to feel pleasure in looking at a woman. And, "There's only one kind of homosexual guy, and that's the pretty ones—why do homosexual men have to be so good-looking?"posted by saulgoodman at 11:38 AM on July 2, 2010 [9 favorites]
Pat Boone: Hating the Gay.posted by ericb at 1:51 PM on July 2, 2010
Pat Boone Compares Prop 8 Demonstrators to Mumbai Terrorists.
Damn. This must be what conservatives feel like when they find out one of their children is gay...Yeah, this thread is making me realize that finding out someone I admire or respect* is a crazy right-wing Republican gives me that same sinking, incredulous feeling I get when I find out someone is a scientologist. I really wish I could still listen to Beck without throwing up in my head a little bit.
"We drifted off to sleep and awakened as the sunlight streamed through the lace curtains. He smiled and patted my chest affectionately, while I felt hung-over and sick with shame at our midnight activity. The carefree happiness of my visit had turned into something shabby and unclean.I think this is the same mindset responsible for the rash of anti-gay Republican politicians and religious leaders -- George Rekers, Roy Ashburn, Larry Craig, Ted Haggard, Mark Foley -- who have recently been outed due to their own indiscretion. They all rail against homosexuals because they see them as "too tempting" to the common straight man. They believe that any straight man can have his marriage ruined, his family torn apart, and his life sent into a downward spiral because they will not be able to resist the temptations of homosexual sex because that's what is happening to them, in their own life.
I could not meet his eyes at the breakfast table and the little fool laughed and had a high time, as if he engaged in that sort of under-the-cover play every night. I was miserable and disgusted with myself and I made up my mind that I was going to leave. It would be better that way, to get away from further temptation.
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I wondered how many boys across the land were living their lives carrying a burden such as ours and what they were doing about the problem. Perhaps many of them were like Frank and just accepted it and themselves and didn't make a big thing of it as I did."
In case you just can't get enough of the wacky world of Gallagher, I typed up all the right-wing, homo-obsessed, crazybrains "jokes" that I didn't have room for in my article.posted by Xalf at 2:51 PM on July 8, 2010
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