Orange County activist talks about Log Cabin Republicans
"A curious truth about Republican politics in California: the more conservative an area, the better the supply of closeted gays frantically working to please GOP big boys," writes R. Scott Moxley. "The best evidence of this axiom is Orange County. Here, for instance, current Southern California Edison VP Brian Bennett played fawning chief of staff to anti-gay Congressman Bob Dornan for years before swallowing his pride and outing himself." OC Weekly wanted to talk to Orange County GOP grand poobah Tom Fuentes about queer Republicans, but ... he didn't want to talk about them. So Moxley found "pipe-smoking, scotch-drinking, Republican raconteur Christopher Gilbertson," state vice chairman of the Log Cabin Republicans. Why be a queer Republican? "Because that’s where openly gay and lesbian people most need to be visibly demonstrating that we are not the gross caricatures portrayed by the Traditional Values Coalition ... that there are gays concerned about levels of taxation, crime and national defense, plus a host of other issues," says Gilbertson. Orange County Weekly
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