After GOProud announced its endorsement of Mitt Romney today, Dan Savage of “It Gets Better” fame, took to twitter to refer to gay conservatives as “house faggots.” Apparently, faggot is an entirely appropriate slur as long as Dan Savage is slinging it and gay people who you don’t agree with are on the receiving end.
It gets better my ass.
Who the hell is Dan Savage? He must be HUGELY influential……..
Thank you for getting this out there Chris. His behavior does it surprise me yet continues to disappoint nonetheless.
Brian
Also, isn’t “house” usually part of a racist epithet?
Yep, it’s part of a racist epithet. But what do you expect of a man who used the n-word in reaction to Prop 8 in CA? Savage is a biphobic , transphobic, Christophobic caricature.
~Quinn
I just like the idea that being insensitive in ONE direction isn’t enough. Faggots. Nope. KEEP PUSHING.
The important thing in this email was that you endorsed Romney! Hurrah, and about time. Maybe your influence will help save the Republic!
As to Savage: Who cares what he says? Savage makes ZERO difference. And, by the way, “faggot” means good stuff, too. Here are a few of the definitions of Faggot: a bundle of sticks or twigs, especially when bound together and used as fuel; a bundle of iron bars; and a ball of chopped meat with herbs and bread, eaten fried. I’m sure he meant one of those definitions. Maybe he’s more familiar with the definition of IDIOT. (Or to reflect on what Andrew Brietbart would have said: SO?
You vote for a party that has endorsed a final solution for gays buy putting them in a pen and airdropping food to them until they die out. Nice to know that some people vote to have themself killed.
I don’t know about the rest of you house faggots out there, but I am sick of being lumped into one narrowly defined group. I am a gay man, but it it not the be-all and end-all in my life . Like many of you I have varied interests and outlooks on life. I am a Human being, not a Gay being, or definitely not a LGBT Being.
Of course Dan Savage has one interest, and only one interest….Dan Savage.
His real name is Keenan Hollahan. He picked “Dan Savage” as a nom de plume because it wasn’t nearly as faggoty.
He has gotten people to post videos on Youtube stating how life gets better. Then he uses two
euphemisms which are both hurtful and revolting. While yes he entitled to his opinion, he needs to be more careful in his choice of words.
[...] GOProud co-founder Chris Barron responded to Savage on his personal website. [...]
Yes, “faggot is an entirely appropriate slur” in this context. Savage was trying to make a point and sometimes strong words are necessary. In case you’re unfamiliar with the pejorative he was paraphrasing here’s a Wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Negro . GO”Proud” chose to endorse Romney, a man whom among other things, has signed the National Organization for Marriage Pledge. Being gay may not be the “be-all and end-all” (from one of the comments) in your life but you are supporting a man who believes that we deserve fewer rights than other Americans – even if it’s not a problem for you, it is a problem for a majority of the rest of us. You have every right to support whoever you want, and Savage (and I) have every right to you a house faggot for doing so.
I agree, I can not fathom gay Americans who support right wing conservetives who hate us and would love to see us go back in the closet>>>GO President Obama
[...] GOProud co-founder Chris Barron responded to Savage on his personal website. [...]
You thought what he said was bad? Your endorsing a political group that says the same thing in your face, behind your back. Heck I am voting Libertarian but no way in heck would I vote GOP after all the nonsense they have been doing instead of working with the President.
If you were smart enough to do any basic research, or hell just look at the website you are commenting on, you would see I am supporting Libertarian Presidential candidate Gary Johnson for President – not Mitt Romney. Thanks for being entirely clueless.
You are being address in your capacity as a co-founder and representative of GOProud; and the references to “you” are references to GOProud.
I don’t agree with Savage’s articulate name-calling comment, but I do agree with his sentiment here. I’m a fiscal republican and a social democrat rolled into one. I could not in all honesty vote the GOP ticket this time around, and I 1st voted for Nixon in ’72, I have never switched sides before. But like I said I cannot in good conscience vote for a candidate that is for discrimination against the gay community, by promoting a federal amendment to prohibit gay marriage and rights. The man signed a NOM pledge, fiscally left his state in financially ruin and now wants to be president? GOProud should have been silent on the endorsement.
Not sure about the rest of you but there is NOTHING more important to me than my full equal rights. The same rights that are afforded to every straight individual and straight married couple. We are not equal in the workplace, where we live, on how we do our taxes, when we are sick in a hospital and even in death Ed do not have the same protections. I would rather vote for the person who has advanced MY equality more than all US presidents combined. So GOP Proud maybe you will get slightly lower taxes, less government agencies and a fatter bank account, but Romney and the GOP writes discrimination of gays into their platforms. Read them! You will NEVER have a place with full equality at the GOP table. Never.
Dan Savage used poor words indeed, but that it really beside the point when it’s all said and done.
What is important is calling the GOProud endorsement what it really is – short-sided and irrelevant – in relation to the future of LGTBQ Americans.
But here is the good news. Regardless of the GOProud endorsement or the outcome of the 2012 election – the die has been cast by the current President. And whether LGTBQ Americans of a conservative or Republican “persuasion” want to admit it or not they will forever have President Obama to thank for his – long-term and relevant – stance on behalf all LGTBQ Americans.
No doubt the LGTBQ history books will be kind to President Obama.
GOProud?
No so much.
Now it’s LGBTQ? By the time you guys are done we’re going to need to expand the alphabet. Get over yourselves. Anyone whose sexuality is the prime identifier, the be-all and end-all of his life is woefully unbalanced. There’s a lot more to keeping a republic healthy than worrying about whether you like dick or pussy. If Obama gets four more years you’re still not going to be able to get married in all 50 states, but it won’t matter. This country won’t be worth living in, straight, gay or transfucktacular. Do whatever you want with whoever you want, and get some priorities. The rest of us don’t really care whether you get to call your relationship “marriage” or not. We’re worried about more important things.
I agree with you, Savage used a poor choice of words, but GOProud made a poor choice when they endorse someone that wants to deny a segment of the population rights.
[...] TheRed Barron.com published: Apparently, faggot is an entirely appropriate slur as long as Dan Savage is slinging it and gay people who you don’t agree with are on the receiving end. [...]
[...] TheRed Barron.com published: Apparently, faggot is an entirely appropriate slur as long as Dan Savage is slinging it and gay people who you don’t agree with are on the receiving end. [...]
Same as in college. The GLBT group would constantly preach free speech, freedom of thought, and pluralism. But the moment I came out as a Republican, the hateful vitriol and derision directed toward me from my ‘fellow compatriots’ exceeded that from the ‘hetero bullies.’
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