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Eva Young is President of Log Cabin Republicans of Minnesota and lives in Minneapolis with her cat, Kiddleleewink. You can also read her other blog here.
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September 28, 2004

BoifromTroy has an interesting post that descibes his conversation with the chair of the LA Democratic Party. Now this character - my guess - Eric Bauman - from the way boifromtroy describes him - is typical of some in Stonewall. Others in Stonewall - such as John Marble - the Stonewall Communications Director at the National Level, and Alan Hooker, chair of Stonewall DFL locally are both legitimately interested in moving gay issues forward.

The anonymous Gay Patriot would be a gay republican counterpart to a Bauman breed.

The Eric Bauman breed of Stonewaller would rather have wackjobs like the anti-gay Alan Quist over the inclusive Arne Carlson win Republican primaries - because that makes it easier for Dems to keep hegemony over gay votes.

Now there's nothing wrong with putting party before gay identity - but it's interesting how gay republicans who do this get called "self-loathing" or whatever else - while gay democrats who do this don't get called on it.

After all, gay democrats and the HRC endorsed Bill Clinton - even after he
signed DOMA. In Minnesota, Democratic legislators, Karen Clark and Alan Spear undermined their own credibility in the gay community defending liberal Senator Paul Wellstone's anti-gay vote on DOMA. Republican opponent former Senator Rudy Boswitz was the "Democratic Jesse Helms" they warned. Now Boswitz might be many things - but he's no Jesse Helms.