This past week hasn’t been good for GOProud. And now, this: GOProud Co-Founder and Board Chairman Chris Barron announced today that he was stepping down as head of the masochistically self-loathing conservative LGBT organization:
Today GOProud, an organization of gay and straight Americans seeking to promote freedom by supporting free markets, limited government, and a respect for individual rights, announced that they were restructuring their Board of Directors. “Given the tremendous growth and success of GOProud in our first two and a half years of operation, we are restructuring and expanding our Board to meet the needs of a bigger organization,” said Christopher R. Barron, co-founder and outgoing Chair of the GOProud Board. Barron’s term as Board Chairman expires on December 31, 2011.
But don’t go crying in your soup just yet:
“My role in the day to day management of GOProud will continue as the organization’s Chief Strategist and I will remain on the Board as Chairman Emeritus,” continued Barron. “It is with great excitement that I announce that conservative coalition builder and former CPAC Director Lisa De Pasquale has been elected interim Chairman of the GOProud Board of Directors. Lisa brings a lifetime of experience within the conservative movement and is the perfect person to oversee the expansion and restructuring of GOProud’s Board, as well as to help in refining GOProud’s mission and to aid in building a bigger, better and stronger organization.”
So it looks like Chris will still be around, but he’ll be taking orders from De Pasquale, an event planner and former CPAC chair.
What do you think: is the sun setting on GOProud, or will they be back, better than ever, and ready to fight in 2012 under their new board chair?
h/t: Joe
who gives a f**k about this group of irrelevant twats?
I think that it could only be for the better for this group… I think that of the Republican groups, the Log Cabin Republicans tend to have the interests of GLBT persons in mind with what they do. GOProud seems to be a way of making bigoted conservatives feel good about themselves.
Lisa De Pasquale has stated that she’s inspired by Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.
Clearly, it’s Rush she aspires to emulate.
I think Log Cabin is much better than GO PANDER. Log Cabin ha done some productive work in recent years, including that recent lawsuit.
So Carny Wilson is doing this now?
Looks more like the love child of Flush Limbaugh and Moo-ggie G. to me.
I never thought I would actually have any respect for Log Cabin Republicans. But then GOProud happened and that changed my mind. I think the reason LCR became respectable is because the Roy-Cohn-Wannabes left and formed GOProud. As a result, LCR was then liberated to actually fight for LGBT rights within the Republican Party and in other conservative circles. Something we should all appreciate. Sadly, though, it is the boot-licking, media w***e, Tea Party apologists at GOProud that get all the attention with the media and not LCR. This is truly sad. But hey, snark and cynicism sells air time while respectability does not.
@ Greg — LOL. Yeah, she does kinda have that Norma Bates look. >;-PP
Is Lisa De Pasquale a lesbian? How many actual gay members are there of GOProud? Does Chris Barron have any self-respect at all?
“Is Lisa De Pasquale a lesbian?”.
It appears not:
“The only references google gave for “Lisa de Pasquale” and “lesbian” were nasty comments she’d written which clearly suggest that she sees lesbians as inherently objectionable.”
http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2011/12/15/39734#comments
That’s a face not even John Waters could love.