"Rudy Giuliani is Pretty Damned Gay Friendly"
Referring to the notion that the 2008 Democrats are more supportive of gay rights than the Republicans, influential consultant and gay rights activist Ethan Geto offered me the following caveat:
"They are going to be so much more supportive than the Republican candidates, unless we have an anomaly -- and it's Rudy Giuliani. Because I must say, Rudy Giuliani is pretty damned gay friendly. I was a lobbyist during his administration on gay rights issues, and Giuliani -- I couldn't get Vallone (then City Council Speaker Peter Vallone) to sign off on the Domestic Partnership Bill, because he was afraid Giuliani was going to oppose him and leave him hanging out there and make him look bad - and Giuliani went and took the leadership."
UPDATE: Ben has a fascinating memo from the Empire State Pride Agenda detailing Giuliani's pragmatic "accommodation" with gay New York.
-- Jason Horowitz
And, like it or not, this just one more reason that voters in the heartland -- especially Republicans -- will never vote for an Italian American whose father served time in Sing Sing for armed robbery.
As usual, Obi Wan Kenobi is right!
He was living with gays and likes to go around in very elaborate drag outfits, you know.
Was he experimenting or is he in the closet?
Fidel, you sound just as homophobic as your island namesake. What's next, advocating locking up the HIV-positive in commie "re-education" concentration camps just like the real dictator?
Homophobic? You mean living with gays is what most straight guys do and it's not just on tv sitcoms?
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck...
Nuff said!
Fidel, companero. Mas vale morir de pie que vivir arrodillado.