Pictured... Republican leadership on calling out racism and bigotry:

The moment I read “as a gay man” I knew what we were in for. Being a member of a group doesn’t give you the right to speak for everyone in that group. It lends credibility to your opinions but it does not change the fact they are your opinions.

“I was in DC with my husband, and I came back, like, this is what people think all conservatives are now, and we are not.”

Yeah, I think conservatives have so thoroughly convinced themselves that they aren’t racist, that they are literally incapable of consolidating the reality of their racism with their view of themselves... so they just stand their with their jaws on the floor pretending to be surprised.

“I was in DC with my husband, and I came back, like, this is what people think all conservatives are now, and we are not.”

“Some of them will listen to criticism from fellow conservatives.”

Reminds me of that episode of Fresh Prince where a fraternity won’t let Carlton in because he’s a ‘sell out’:

I love it when the GOP supporters act shocked at what’s happening. If you were truly and wholly shocked by what’s happening, if you’re upset at Trump and his statements, if you dislike the idea that we’re creating ‘My First Concentration Camp: Fun Times for Toddlers’, then, you know, don’t vote for the fucking GOP in…

You misspelled Tuesday.

It is very embarrassing for her to be on TV while Trump continues to say the quiet part out loud while the GOP stays silent! Why can’t they continue to oppress and subjugate minorities via policy rather than racist tweets? 

Exactly. The idea that Peck can write for a largely straight audience yet cannot be criticized by any of the straight people he wrote for is the type of “privilege” that I thought we were supposedly so outraged by.

If Peck wanted an audience of just gay men then he should have written the article in a publication primarily read by Gay men, by writing the article in The New Republic he clearly wanted to get his fucked up POV to a wider audience-- this is the response he either wanted or should have been able to predict. 

I came out at 33. I dated briefly, then ended up in a serious relationship with the woman who is now my wife- we’ve been married for almost two years, at this point. I have no regrets, and while there were definitely aspects of a “gay adolescence” that I went through, none of them included fucking my way through the…

“Plus, the “what if he just wants to fuck around in office” is WAY too close to “a woman will be too moody on her period1!!” to me.”

What an advanced nine year old he was. Also, he was in the military at a time when it would have affected his career, wasn’t he? I mean Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was not actually a good thing for gays in the military and didn’t he overlap that? I may misremember.

Yeah, the whole “he’s a gay man, of course he’s going to be a messy slut in the white house!” angle is extremely homophobic.

All of this.

This. It’s like if a black man wrote an essay about Obama and heavily implied he wasn’t a real black man because he never joined a gang or smoked crack. It’s literally criticizing the man for not embodying stereotypes.

who took 33 years to come out because he fretted how it might affect his career

Is it possible that it’s maybe not outright homophobia, but still pretty shitty to criticize someone for not being gay the way you want them to be (politician or not)?