I thought that was one of those words where the minority took them back.
Heh. Being right-wing and homosexual are not incompatible. Even far-right, cf. Ernst Röhm, Yukio Mishima, Pim Fortuyn…
Pim Fortuyn was to the left of most Democrats. He just didn’t like Muslims. But I don’t get why everybody portrays him as far-right.
I know, but this little minority never felt empowered by that word.
Gay, lesbian and homosexual work just fine. What is queer anyway?
He compared himself to Silvio Berlusconi, for one thing. In any case, extremists are often going to be pigeonholed based on their extremism. The Klan was largely populist and concerned with social justice, but you wouldn’t call them progressive.
I don’t know about the latter two, but Rohm’s party eventually killed him. I suspect the Republicans will kill Karger, though probably in a more figurative than literal sense.
I understand “queer” to be used as an umbrella term encompassing all non-mainstream sexualities. Like, a group might campaign for an end to discrimination against gays and lesbians and transsexuals, rather than just focusing on discrimination against one of those groups. Since all non-mainstream sexualities are usually lumped together in contexts like that, it makes sense to have a single term for those categories collectively.
But being openly gay and being successful in the Republican Party of today are indeed incompatible.
Barbara Jordan didn’t run, but she got a vote at the 1976 Democratic Convention, and people were talking about her as a vice presidential candidate. She wasn’t out of the closet, though.
I always thought she was the chief handler of the president’s staff.
Lies My Teacher Told Me! A+
also, I wonder if I’d get into trouble for teaching a lesson on this in US History? Hmm? Spreading gay propaganda to teenagers? 
His first act as President will be to order the printing of three-dollar bills!
Well, there’s really no proof for either Buchanan’s homosexuality or heterosexuality. In fact, I’d wager and say there’s really very little proof for anyone’s sexuality - I am married to a woman and have two kids (for the whole “proof of sexual intercourse” angle) but so do many other people who have since come out.
In their own particularly appalling and monstrous way, I suppose they were! :dubious:
Well, that’s her proof, anyway…
Please. Redecorating the White House will obviously be of higher priority.
Next time he’ll know to take TRUTH instead of DARE.
While it’s still a new field, you can learn something objective about someone’s sexuality by measuring blood flow to the genitals or brain activity via MRI when presented with various images, or by using eye tracking to see which of two images the person focuses more attention on. Of course, there’s a bit of a self-selection here, in that the sort of people who would agree to take part in such experiments are probably more likely to be open about their sexuality to begin with.
Though it’s much easier just to sing “Dark lady laughed and danced and lit the candles one by one…!”. Both gay men and lesbians are physiologically and psychologically incapable of not clapping their hands twice.
This article about the growing acceptance of gays will be of interest.