An eighteen year old coming out of the closet isn’t necessarily newsworthy, but it certainly grabs headlines when it’s Tyler Whitney, a campaigner for anti-gay presidential candidate Tom Tancredo.
Whitney, a Michigan native whose father wrote speeches for the virulently anti-gay former Gov. John Engler, has built his nascent political career on anti-gay policy. As head of Michigan’s Young Republicans and a leader in the Young Americans for Freedom, Whitney leant his voice to many a gay cause. He even protested gays with a sign reading, “Go Back in The Closet”. Too bad the kid can’t take it all back, especially now that he’s been outed by Behind the Lines.
While Whitney had no comment, Tancredo spokesperson Senior Advisor Bay Buchanan insisted, “A person’s sexual preference is a personal matter and has nothing to do with the campaign.” It certainly is when said campaign’s built on discriminatory policies. But what do we know?
Speaking of knowing, Whitney’s MySpace page says he’d like to meet the following: “Any conservative college student in the DC area that is interested in fighting the left.”
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Read Michelangelo Signorile‘s take on the matter over at The Gist.
TomChicago
Although there is some sympathy about Mr. Whitney’s being 18 and consequently not deserving of outing, there should be some consideration of how sympathetic the kid is toward gay men and women as he does his job for Tancredo.
Paul Raposo
Little prick.
He lists his orientation as “straight” and one of his fave books is Slouching Towards Gomorrah by Robert Bork.
He’s going straight to hell. And not the cool gay hell. The boring straight hell where all the men are cute and drunk flirty, but never put out. Take that Tyler!
These DC homocons are the most vile anti-gay asswipes on earth, simultaneously sucking cock and deriding gay people. It’s amazing to watch.
BillieXX
I’m going to cut the little youngster a little slack. Yeah he’s a punk but he’s 18. I’m sure a lot of things I said and did at 18 weren’t gay friendly even if couldn’t wait to hit my knees.
RSL
Hey, Paul. Perhaps this is one of those guys you were talking about separating their pricks from their brains, right?
Paul Raposo
Just to give you a taste of what this “kid” will be when he grows up, read this blog:
homocon.com
It’s lovely how Nathan Scott makes light of the assaults that happened during the Russian pride parade. Read the archives to see what other wonderful things that gay man has written about the LGBTQ community. Not to mention what he’s written about immigrants; illegal, or otherwise.
Perhaps Mr. Whitney can list Scott as another of his heroes, along side Pat Buchanan and Tom Tancredo.
Mr. B
I don’t get this kid. I understand (with a fair amount of loathing) the self-hating homos who campaign against queers. But why is he coming out to his fellow campaigners as he continues to support Tancredo? (He seems quite unwavering in his ideas.) What does the sad little punk want?
elite.micro
This dude is even more whacked than it seems. He also like to post at the ultra-homophobic site FreeRepublic using the name ‘kc8nsb’: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1365681/posts
Hopefully his hateful games are finally over. It’s also interesting to note that Joseph Farah, another super-anti-gay founder of WorldNetDaily has also endorsed Tancredo or at least said Tancredo is his favorite.
elite.micro
“I don’t get this kid. I understand (with a fair amount of loathing) the self-hating homos who campaign against queers”
This is a tired cliche and myth. Gay conservative don’t hate themselves. In fact, the foundation of their identity is that they are better than the average effeminate or dirty faggot. It is the same attitude that many closeted frat boys have. They think of themselves as superior and get off on judging and demonizing others. The extreme endpoint of this psychosis was manifested in homosexual members of the Nazi SS who actually became sexually aroused as they raped and then murdered other gays.
Mr. B
So. elite.micro, you’re saying these types are comparable to skinheads and neo-Nazis who beat up fags but call themselves “male-oriented” or whatever? Got it.
I understand the concept of being homosexual and anti-gay. But what has me scratching my head is that this kid has taken it upon himself to come out to other campaigners. I’m not really sure what he’s after. Then, he’s eighteen. There’s a good chance he isn’t, either.
Paul Raposo
“Perhaps this is one of those guys you were talking about separating their pricks from their brains”
Quite possibly, thanks RSL. And I’ve no doubt it’s really easy for people like this kid to separate their pricks from their brains. But they probably need a crowbar to separate the pricks from their butts.
Paul Raposo
“But what has me scratching my head is that this kid has taken it upon himself to come out to other campaigners.”
Just after September 11th, their was an article in the NY Times about the new “young” right. One of the people interviewed was a 20-something gay man who said, I kid you not you not,
“I’m an American first, a Republican second and a gay man third. My country is more important than a gay agenda and I’m more concerned about stopping terrorists in the middle east, than getting married.”
So many of these right-wing gays will trample other LGBTQ’s to prop up the Republican party, but then accuse liberal gays of being dogmatic.
I think elite.micro made an interesting point about conservative LGBTQ’s feeling superior to liberal gays. Which I suppose might be a double standard, since I as a liberal gay, feel somewhat superior to conservative gays, but not enough to try and trample their rights, or work with those who will.