Republican Senator Roy Ashburn, was arrested Wednesday morning for DUI after leaving the popular gay bar, Faces. Whoops…not the happiest way to end happy hour.
In my view, a significant portion of the anti-gay industry is fueled by deeply self-loathing, emotionally stunted gay men and women. This is just the latest example of the astounding hypocrisy we have to fight on our way to equality.
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Note to the closet cases: It is no longer 1950. You can live honestly and openly and lead a productive and fulfilling life. You don’t have to put yourself or your family through the wringer by living a lie.
This does seem to be a pattern with these anti-gay sorts, doesn’t it? A DUI after leaving a gay bar here. Being caught out soliciting sex in the men’s room there. Sad–and so hypocritical.
As Wayne points out above it’s not the 1950s any more and yes, there is life after being honest about yourself and coming out.
So what else is new?! Psychology 101=the more homophobic someone is, the more likely they are to be a self-hating raging closet case. Add your name Roy to a very long (and usually republican) list.
I still predict that something dark and secretive in this very nature will come out very soon about Ryan Sorba! I can’t wait for that day….
Ashburn was born in 1954 and thus we always have to live with one foot in the previous generation.
Ironic that the bar is named “Faces”. Unfortunately, guys who get caught up in this sort of scandal have kept themselves from any healthy way of being themselves, as they have tried to keep others from finding healthy ways of being themselves. True, it is harder for those born in the fifties to imagine, but there are individuals and groups of people born twenty years ago who work just as hard to ignore the siren song of being true to oneself. Thank goodness that visibility and the lifting veil of shame are making it harder to demonize others and abdicate responsibilities for one’s own, personal attitudes and actions.