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Article: Why we need gay Republicans.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- October 24, 2000
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Kevin Ivers robbed me at the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association convention in San Francisco in September. The spokesman for the Log Cabin Republicans--the gay Republicans--mugged me of the only possible contribution I could have made to a lively panel discussion on the gay vote.
Get a load of what he said. "To be a successful movement, we have to be a bipartisan movement," Ivers told the packed room at the Argent Hotel. "It is clear that in Los Angeles, gay and lesbian groups have influence in the Democratic Party. Log Cabin is trying to do the same."
He went on to say, "When the election is over, the election is over. And you will have to ...