Some advice to partisans who like to attend victory speeches on an election night. If your victorious candidate is telling the crowd about the courteous phone call he had with the vanquished foe, it’s bad form to yell out “dyke.”

Last night I was at the gym, wasting my time, watching primary results for New York City. For the first time since 1975, Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau was not looking for reelection and the field to fill his post included Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. and Leslie Crocker Snyder.

Vance had the support of the retiring DA; Crocker Snyder unsuccessfully tried to unseat the iconic Morgenthau four years ago, and the election was devoid of any drama (although she did wonder at one of the debates if the “old boy network” was in play when big political players ran afoul of the law).

Technically Vance has the new gig even though he only won the primary—there is no Republican opponent. As he was giving his victory speech, he mentioned Crocker Snyder called him, and some yahoo yelled “dyke.” I’m way too old to be clutching the pearls, but the single outburst struck me as weird considering that Gloria Steinem and State Senator Tom Duane are both Vance supporters.

There is no indication Vance is some raving homophobes (while Gay City News endorsed the third candidate in the race, Richard Aborn, the paper spoke well of Vance) and holding a politician for every outburst from a supporter would mean the days of pols would be spent offering apologies. Hopefully the knot head who doesn’t understand the science behind this thing called TV, will be reprimanded by the Vance campaign.

On to better news, a big shout out to Daniel Dromm. The openly gay school teacher went against the Democratic party machine and defeated incumbent Helen Sears. Dromm will join the City Council next year, representing the 25th District of Queens.

UPDATE: Writing minus coffee is not smart. Daniel Dromm won last night’s Democratic primary. He now has to run in the general election come November, but this is NYC baby. I doubt he’ll face a credible Republican candidate. One last thing: a silent smear campaign was employed about Dromm’s past. Like most cowardly work, it failed.

UPDATE 2: One more toast to Jimmy Van Bramer. Another politician who happens to be gay, Van Bramer also beat the party machine in the hotly contested election for the 26th District of Queens. If  all goes  according to plan in November, next year’s New York City Council will have four gay members.