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Article: In The Attack Queers: Liberal Society and the Gay Right (Verso), Village Voice executive editor Richard Goldstein denounces. (Brifes).
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- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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In The Attack Queers: Liberal Society and the Gay Right (Verso), Village Voice executive editor Richard Goldstein denounces The Log Cabin Republicans, The Republican Unity Coalition (gays for George Bush), and popular media figures like Andrew Sullivan, Camille Paglia, and Norah Vincent for being "homocons"--out gay people with disturbingly conservative politics. The "homocon" is to gay rights what Clarence Thomas is to Black Power or Phyllis Schlafley is to Feminism--a minority individual who sides with the anti-minority ideology. He or she upholds individual rights over group politics and identifies with male power and privilege. The homocon despises butch lesbians and ...
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