Comments | ontd_political: Anti-gay rights senator Roy Ashbury comes out

cyranothe2nd in ontd_political

Anti-gay rights senator Roy Ashbury comes out

Mar 09, 2011 18:45

A conservative US state senator who has voted against gay rights measures during his 14 years in office has announced he is gay.

Republican Roy Ashburn came out during a radio interview in California, where he sits on the state legislature. He has been on leave since his arrest last week on suspicion of driving under the influence. Mr Ashburn said ( Read more... )

homophobia, republican sex scandal, gay republicans, lgbtq / gender & sexual minorities

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schexyschteve March 10 2011, 02:51:11 UTC

They're always hiding something.

rex_dart March 10 2011, 02:54:46 UTC

No, sorry, they're not.

lickety_split March 10 2011, 03:25:02 UTC

I GOT AN INCEPTION ICON JUST SO I COULD PARTICIPATE!

rex_dart March 10 2011, 03:26:12 UTC

OMG IT EVEN MOVES

SO AMAZING

♥ ♥ ♥

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layweed March 10 2011, 02:52:32 UTC

I really don't get the denial complex these people have.

layweed March 10 2011, 02:53:22 UTC

Of course, seeing as I'm straight, I don't think I could ever get it. Idk. =\ It just strikes me as being weird is all.

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echoandsway March 10 2011, 03:07:45 UTC

This, yeah.

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rex_dart March 10 2011, 02:56:20 UTC

I've got my squinting face on and ready to go. COME AT ME, STRAIGHT BROS.

peacetrains March 10 2011, 02:58:58 UTC

Even if it turns out that everyone in Congress who has ever voted against gay rights legislation is a closeted homosexual themselves, they're still guilty of homophobia.

cyranothe2nd March 10 2011, 03:52:26 UTC

It isn't like gay ppl can't be homophobic. That's what internalized homophobia *is* (or, if you watch 'Glee,' Karofsky Syndrome.)

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rex_dart March 10 2011, 02:57:17 UTC

celtic_thistle March 10 2011, 18:03:17 UTC

lmao

rex_dart March 10 2011, 02:57:35 UTC

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fofomazuzu March 10 2011, 02:58:09 UTC

I really wish this would stop happening. It's creating an awful stereotype that homophobes are secretly gay. And I don't think I have to say how bad that makes the gay community look.

rex_dart March 10 2011, 02:59:02 UTC

I'm still blaming straight people for all of that.

fofomazuzu March 10 2011, 03:02:48 UTC

Yep.

entropius March 10 2011, 03:11:54 UTC

It certainly seems that there's a correlation, though... or at least the lack of the strong anticorrelation that you'd expect.

(By "correlation" I mean the mathematical sense of the term: the percentage of virulent homophobes who are gay is greater than the percentage of people who are gay. You'd expect it to be much less.)

This of course doesn't support that stereotype, any more than the overrepresentation of Jews in physics suggests that all/most Jews are physicists. But it's at least interesting statistically.

I recall a study (described to me by my partner at the time, who is a neuropsychologist; I don't have a citation, but she studies this stuff) that surveyed self-described straight men about their attitudes toward homosexuality, and then showed them gay porn while attaching a miniature blood pressure cuff (called a "rigiometer", lulz) to their penises. Sure enough, there was a positive correlation between homophobic attitudes and penile erection when watching gay porn.

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