Uncle Roy or Aunt Anita?
Uncle Roy or Aunt Anita?
#1Uncle Roy or Aunt Anita?
Posted: 5/12/10 at 1:40pm
Here's an excerpt, but the whole op-ed piece is worth reading:
People like Rekers, a Baptist minister who was paid to testify against gay adoption and travel the globe preaching that therapy can "cure" gay people, do not deserve the same sympathy given to those who are afraid of losing their jobs. Not when they consciously morph from being victims of homophobia to attack dogs eating their young.
Some of my Facebook friends suggested calling folks like Rekers and Foley "Aunt Anita," a play on infamous 1970s anti-gay figurehead Anita Bryant. But she was never accused of soliciting sex from a same-sex police officer in an airport bathroom like Sen. Larry Craig was.
A few on Twitter thought "Uncle Roy" could work. Roy Cohn was a prominent lawyer who joined Sen. Joseph McCarthy in targeting gays during the Communist scare of the 1950s. Despite being gay himself, he continued to oppose gay rights until his AIDS-related death in 1986.
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....but the world goes 'round
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#2Uncle Roy or Aunt Anita?
Posted: 5/12/10 at 8:48pm
First off, I wish the internet could block comments on random articles I read, because I always get sucked into reading all that crazy and my blood pressure starts to spike.
I don't think you can really create a comparable term for a gay Uncle Tom, except to maybe just say "a gay Uncle Tom" and open THAT can of worms. The Uncle Tom of the book couldn't hide about himself what caused his shame - his skin. He ingratiated himself to white people, but everyone could see he was black. A nutjob self-loathing gay CAN hide being gay in a way that Uncle Tom could not. For a while, I guess, since so may of them get busted.
The other thing I can't really kind behind is that people like Rekers are the "enemy within." Within what? The gay community? Are they really a part of the gay community in even the most remote way you or I might see it? What IS the gay community anyway? Does just having mansex (or ladysex) make you a member? I'm not really sure, but I just don't think of people like Ted Haggard and George Rekers being a part of anything that I'm a part of.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#2Uncle Roy or Aunt Anita?
Posted: 5/12/10 at 8:56pm
"First off, I wish the internet could block comments on random articles I read, because I always get sucked into reading all that crazy and my blood pressure starts to spike."
Same here...
When I see the name Uncle Roy, I think 'Disney'.
So, I would say no to that.
How about Uncle Pervy?
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#3Uncle Roy or Aunt Anita?
Posted: 5/12/10 at 9:00pm
How about "right-wing self-loathing sacks of sh!t"?
That covers all the bases for me, unless I've forgotten something.
#4Uncle Roy or Aunt Anita?
Posted: 5/12/10 at 9:10pmSomeone give Reg a cigar.
....but the world goes 'round
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#5Uncle Roy or Aunt Anita?
Posted: 5/12/10 at 9:24pm
Uncle Pervy is just easier.
Twitter that. It's less characters.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
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