The prevly unnamed Internal Revenue Service Whistleblower X revealed himself durg public ttimony before three GOP-led Hoe mte Wednday, sayg he is a gay Democrat married to a man and wrongfully slanred as a partisan operative or a traor to his party.
Contents:
- OPN: POETIC JTICE FOR GAY, TRANSGENR WORKERS
- POETIC JTICE : MICHAEL NAVA’S MYSTERI ABOUT A GAY GUMSHOE ARE POPULATED BY A CAST OF FAIAR CHARACTERS
- GAY MAN DELIVERS IMMEDIATE JTICE TO HOMOPHOB WHO SCREAMED A NASTY GAY SLUR AT HIM
- IRS WHISTLEBLOWER X IS JOE ZIEGLER, A GAY DEMOCRAT
OPN: POETIC JTICE FOR GAY, TRANSGENR WORKERS
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”Openly gay, a third-generatn Mexin-Amerin raised the Sacramento barr of Garnland and a graduate of Stanford Universy School of Law--”I’m nobody’s stereotype, ” he says--Nava was toxited wh “the seeds of the job, the romance of beg a trial lawyer, the sense that I was dog somethg that had social utily.
”But like Henry Rs, the tough but sensive gay Lato protagonist and narrator of Nava’s spense novels, Nava burned out. “The Ltle Death” (1986) and “Golnboy” (1988) were published by Alyson Publitns, a small gay-owned prs Boston, after beg rejected by 13 mastream ho.
POETIC JTICE : MICHAEL NAVA’S MYSTERI ABOUT A GAY GUMSHOE ARE POPULATED BY A CAST OF FAIAR CHARACTERS
Forrt attribut the boomlet gay spense fictn--other top practners clu Joseph Hansen, Mary Wgs and Barbara Wilson--to the fact that “gay men and lbians, ially at least, are so often mysteri to themselv.
” Until then, he acknowledg that, given “society’s unrelentg hostily” toward homosexuals, he is makg a polil statement by wrg about a posive and affirmg gay figure like Henry “How Town, ” the fictnal attorney unrsr his outsir’s perspective when he bluntly rms his client, the heterosexual child molter: “I tell my gay clients the same thg I’ve jt told you, and my black and Lato clients, too, for that matter. “As assiated as I am, I have never for one day fotten who I am and what I am: a homosexual Lato, ” never fully at ease eher Nava has no regrets. Like a lot of gay men, I’ve lived secrecy for so long has bee send nature to me.
GAY MAN DELIVERS IMMEDIATE JTICE TO HOMOPHOB WHO SCREAMED A NASTY GAY SLUR AT HIM
“I knew by the time I was 12 that I was gay”--Henry Rs scrib the feelg as “a kd of wild lonels and a ep, sry sense of beg different”--”but the only word I had for was queer. )But was Nava’s homosexualy that prompted him to leave.
“I had to say to myself: ‘I am a homosexual, and I am still a good human beg, ’ notwhstandg what the Catholic Church, or my classmat, or my fay members say. Jay-Z has supported a number of Obama’s polici, om gay marriage to crimal jtice long before Obama’s tenure the Whe Hoe, Jay-Z advoted agast racism, implic bias, and equaly for years, though often his philanthropic efforts and activism have taken place unr the 2003, Jay-Z tablished a fund to “help dividuals facg socenomic hardships to further their tn at post sendary stutns”, the missn statement of the foundatn says. Hurley was on his way om pickg up suppli for last weekend’s pri para Brighton when a homophobe screamed obsceni as he drove by him on the street.
IRS WHISTLEBLOWER X IS JOE ZIEGLER, A GAY DEMOCRAT
“Your sual homophobia has supergay nsequenc, ” Hurley tweeted. This may sound ridiculo, but there was no shortage of ments on Twter plag that Hurley’s punishment did not f the homophobic lads’ crime. “Death threats, a glass bottle to the head, beg thrown off my bike, and gettg a brick through the wdow of my home are jt a handful of the recent pric I’ve had to pay for beg out and gay, a supposedly open-md, liberal, and welg cy.
“So the next time you see someone abg a gay person on the street, ll them out. That there were words for homosexual behavr Whman’s day there n be no doubt.
None of the exampl poss a homosexual inty. A native Vermonter om a ral town, he was his seventi then, and newly and proudly out; gay polil associatns Vermont accepted him as a lightful sort of mast.