Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Hillary the Fag Hag?

I see I'm not the only gay who was rooting for Hillary Rodham Clinton last night:

In Texas, a Gay Bar's Patrons Toast Hillary Clinton

GUN BARREL CITY, Tex., March 4 -- "The thing is, Hillary's been a victim," says Leo Bartlett, taking a drag of his cigarette. "Hillary's a real fighter."


"She's been picked on, ridiculed, bullied. Those haircuts, that laugh, the clothes. Oh, and Monica. But she never gives up. She's got good policy positions. She bullies when she needs to. She's "a diva."

And that about sums up why gays -- not all, of course, but many -- are such ardent, longtime and downright defensive backers of Sen. Hillary Clinton.

This historic primary race has turned the American electorate into a demographic pizza pie. Alongside white women and Hispanics, blue-collar folks and Catholics who currently form Clinton's core constituency, count gays and lesbians, too. Or, to use the more inclusive Bravo-TV-is-gay-TV term: the LGBT community. Hillary's their gal, that reliable, ubiquitous straight girl who hangs out with the gang, the Grace Adler to their Will Truman.
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4 comments:

Sam said...

I went to my precinct caucus in Dallas last night in a typically gentrifying older urban neighborhood, and by that I mean Latino and Gay with a growing number of white yuppies with kids who've discovered how cute we've made it, and a smalling African-American population. The Latinos and gays went strongly for Hillary, the African-Americans were strong for Obama and the yuppie whites were split. The line for Hillary was out the door and down the hall, the line for Obama was much shorter. I guess I live in Hillary country.

Timmy said...

My precinct caucus (in Houston near downtown) was in a church and it looked like the bride's side and the groom's side. The precinct is a mix of everything.

The bride's side had three known mos (me/hispanic, my next door neigbhor, and the precinct official), white men & white women (early 30s on up), and one african-american male).

The groom's side was had 4 known mos (including two friends of mine), a few hispanics, a few african-americans, some white folks and it was mostly a younger age group.

The split ended up being 58/42 (Obama/Clinton). It was an interesting day having to do the Texas Two-Step. I guess the thing that was invigorating is the fact that people came back for the caucus and stayed. Normally the precinct caucus has about 10 people...last night it was close to 300.

Anonymous said...

I don't recall Hillary ever having cried or proclaimed herself a victim. Maybe you're projecting.

Homer said...

Actually, second anonymous, it was widely reported that she cried on camera before the New Hampshire primary about how hard it was to run for president.