Re
“Fauver
wins
District
6
post”
(sovo.com,
Nov.
15):
No
matter
who
wins
the
Steve
Brodie-Anne
Fauver
race
after
the
recount,
perhaps
Georgia
Equality
will
learn
a
lesson
and
stop
worrying
about
electability
and
the
disparity
in
campaign
coffers
and
endorse
the
candidate
that
deserves
to
be
endorsed.
Since
Anne
Fauver’s
a
lesbian,
I
guess
she
won’t
be
too
disappointed
to
not
have
won
a
“mandate.”
Re
“Parting
shots
on
gay
vs.
gay
in
District
6”
(Sound
Off,
Nov.
11):
If
the
Druid
Hills
Golf
Club
had
discriminated
against
blacks,
then
the
city
of
Atlanta
would
have
been
all
over
it.
But
Shirley
Franklin
doesn’t
care
about
gay
people.
Re
“Baton
Bob
swims
with
the
fishes”
(news,
Nov.
11):
How
nice
for
Bob
Jamerson
that
he
has
been
able
to
turn
his
little
hobby
into
a
money
making
venture.
If
he
wants
to
show
his
goods
all
over
town,
so
be
it,
but
let’s
not
pretend
it’s
just
harmless
fun.
With
so
few
positive
gay
images
in
the
media,
we
all
pay
a
price
for
Jamerson’s
self-indulgence.
In
just
six
short
weeks,
more
responsible
members
of
our
community
will
head
down
to
the
legislature
to
try
and
derail
the
anti-gay
adoption
amendment.
Let’s
not
pretend
that
beaming
Baton
Bob
into
people’s
homes
doesn’t
diminish
efforts
to
portray
us
as
solid,
responsible
people
who
provide
loving
and
caring
support
for
hundreds
of
needy
children.
So
“Baton
Bob”
Jamerson
is
pitching
a
pilot
for
a
children’s
show
with
a
male
host
wearing
a
leotard
that
leaves
little
to
the
imagination,
while
twirling
a
baton
and
blowing
a
whistle.
Yeah,
right.
Re
“Why
we’re
not
winning
(faster)”
(editorial
by
Chris
Crain,
Nov.
4):
The
size
of
the
army
has
a
lot
to
do
with
the
tactics
used
in
battle.
It
would
be
much
better
to
build
our
army
as
coalitions
with
other
minority
groups—and
the
working
class
majority—than
to
try
and
pull
a
majoritarian
coup
of
come
kind.
Gays
who
do
not
support
progressive
politics
are
doing
a
grave
disservice
in
this
regard.
At
some
point,
there
has
to
be
solidarity
to
achieve
the
momentum
that’s
needed.
If
you
look
at
successful
movements
in
other
countries,
they
are
aligned
with
the
socialist
party—the
equivalent
of
what
our
Democrat
Party
should
be—and
march
with
other
groups
for
overall
progressive
goals.
Rich
and
famous
gays
who
can’t
choose
between
their
narrow
economic
interests
and
their
gay
interests
should
be
booted
out
of
the
movement;
they
are
a
minority
within
a
minority
that
serves
to
make
us
all
appear
completely
selfish.
Re
“‘No
femmes
need
reply’”
(op-ed
by
J.D.
Cerna,
Nov.
11):
Finding
myself
single
after
many
years,
I
have
only
recently
begun
to
understand
this
“masculine/jock”
thing
that
tends
to
brand
the
online
personal
ad.
What
irks
me
is
that
the
few
times
I’ve
met
one
of
them
face
to
face,
the
“masculine/jock”
facade
is
a
thin
veneer
indeed.
It
irks
me
because
I
don’t
care
if
you
act
really
“gay.”
I
care
whether
you
have
the
capacity
to
love
yourself
and
love
others.
We
are
all
worthy
of
love
and
we
should
all
expect
to
receive
love
based
on
our
essential
organic
being.
J.D.
Cerna
hits
the
nail
on
the
head.
It
still
hurts,
in
my
30s,
to
be
“rejected”
by
the
brotherhood
that
should
be
most
supportive
of
mannerisms
and
methods
of
expression
that
are
deemed
“too
gay.”
J.D.
Cerna
highlights
one
type
of
unacknowledged
discrimination
in
the
gay
community.
Just
as
writing
“no
femmes”
in
personal
ads
enables
cruel
actions,
comments
like
“no
blacks”
and
“no
Asians”
in
personals
enables
racial
discrimination.
Often
the
defense
is
“sorry,
just
a
preference.”
Would
the
loss
of
Cerna’s
best
friend
have
been
mitigated
if
Jonathan
said,
“I’m
forbidden
to
speak
to
you,
sorry,
just
a
preference”?
