Comments on: Who we need at the top: Notes from our leaders, writers, activists and celebs http://www.365gay.com/living/082108-gay-appointees-main/ The daily news source for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:24:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: gay not "queer" http://www.365gay.com/living/082108-gay-appointees-main/comment-page-1/#comment-12223 gay not "queer" Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:21:44 +0000 http://www.365gay.com/?p=2758#comment-12223 I like to have a gay adult in one of these positions, not a "queer kid". I like to have a gay adult in one of these positions, not a “queer kid”.

]]> By: desert bat http://www.365gay.com/living/082108-gay-appointees-main/comment-page-1/#comment-12210 desert bat Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:54:09 +0000 http://www.365gay.com/?p=2758#comment-12210 i before e except after c, for gawd's sake i before e except after c, for gawd’s sake

]]> By: desert bat, stepping up to the soapbox http://www.365gay.com/living/082108-gay-appointees-main/comment-page-1/#comment-12162 desert bat, stepping up to the soapbox Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:10:04 +0000 http://www.365gay.com/?p=2758#comment-12162 We need a myriad of voices outside of the system. If MSNBC does not diminuate (word?) Rachel Maddow, she could be one of those voices. She could be that simply by being who she is and talking seriously about anything. Inside the system, we are elevator music, what the system grinds and remakes out of what it percieves as any demanding disident voice. Inside the system, we are beggered and disregarded. Outside the system, we are more who we are: Americans with sub-standard rights, more and more obviously targets of the willfully ignorant and violently hate-filled and their grubby, power-seeking manipulators. Simply by openly being who we are, with all of our goodness and not-so-good spots, with all of our generosity and all of our anger and, you know, all of our humanness, we are the voices that are pushing at this country, raising the consciousness of this world. So, then, those of us who are simply out and get up in the morning are on our job. We are the universal doners in our community. We need a myriad of voices outside of the system. If MSNBC does not diminuate (word?) Rachel Maddow, she could be one of those voices. She could be that simply by being who she is and talking seriously about anything.

Inside the system, we are elevator music, what the system grinds and remakes out of what it percieves as any demanding disident voice. Inside the system, we are beggered and disregarded.

Outside the system, we are more who we are: Americans with sub-standard rights, more and more obviously targets of the willfully ignorant and violently hate-filled and their grubby, power-seeking manipulators. Simply by openly being who we are, with all of our goodness and not-so-good spots, with all of our generosity and all of our anger and, you know, all of our humanness, we are the voices that are pushing at this country, raising the consciousness of this world.

So, then, those of us who are simply out and get up in the morning are on our job. We are the universal doners in our community.

]]> By: Jose Gomez http://www.365gay.com/living/082108-gay-appointees-main/comment-page-1/#comment-12151 Jose Gomez Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:08:23 +0000 http://www.365gay.com/?p=2758#comment-12151 well, this is silly. what does sexual orientation have to do with politics. of course a gay person has the right to be appointed and run office. what does running an office have to do with people's private or public sexual orientation? well, this is silly. what does sexual orientation have to do with politics. of course a gay person has the right to be appointed and run office. what does running an office have to do with people’s private or public sexual orientation?

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