Trump’s Transition Team Packed with Anti-LGBT Activists

[spuwho]

Peter Theil, at last check, does care and I dont think he would  even be involved if he felt it would undermine him personally.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Wait...wait...you were actually serious when you typed this? You were actually serious that a single billionaire who is quite clearly a self-loathing gay man and who threw his support behind a party that hates gay people is somehow going to stop the party from ram rodding through disgusting, backwards legislation or court rulings? Jesus, the mental gymnastics republicans do to convince themselves they haven't done something terrible is unbelievable.

So basically you are calling Peter Theil the 'Uncle Tom' of the gay community?

BTW: I am glad I am keeping you so entertained.

No. Because Peter Thiel is not a disempowered servant of a more powerful entity.

Self loathing is self loathing.

And Theil has his own spiteful history.

As much as people like to assume that gay people are politically lofty and intellectually liberal, Ernst Röhm should provide an historical contradiction.

Not sure if you would call it self-loathing when one chooses not to be defined by ones sexuality.  Even heteros have rejected definition in those terms.

Being an advocate for reducing media intrusion into one's private life seems to be what makes people believe he resents who he is.

So in this case I would withdraw my remark about him having any represenation for the gay community.  Its clear that is not what defines his life and makes no pretense that he has any interest in representing them.

If that runs counter to what you believe the role a gay man should carry, so be it.  From what I have read it appears he has way more to contribute in other areas.

[finehoe]

Its clear that is not what defines his life and makes no pretense that he has any interest in representing them.

If that runs counter to what you believe the role a gay man should carry, so be it.  From what I have read it appears he has way more to contribute in other areas.

Which is his prerogative. But consequently, he shouldn't be held up as a check on the homophobes surrounding him.

[spuwho]

Its clear that is not what defines his life and makes no pretense that he has any interest in representing them.

If that runs counter to what you believe the role a gay man should carry, so be it.  From what I have read it appears he has way more to contribute in other areas.

Which is his prerogative. But consequently, he shouldn't be held up as a check on the homophobes surrounding him.

So Finehoe,

If one doesnt believe in promoting gay rights, but takes no public action against or for gay rights, does that make them a homophobe?

[finehoe]

So Finehoe,

If one doesnt believe in promoting gay rights, but takes no public action against or for gay rights, does that make them a homophobe?

No, but by not taking a stand, one can enable others homophobia.