LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
HUFFINGTON
09.30.12
Two Pink
Elephants,
One Room
HIS WEEK’S ISSUE of
Huffington ventures inside gay Republican organizations, spotlights
America’s mountain lion enthusiasts, and goes deep into the creative, mischievous mind of China’s
famous dissident artist Ai Weiwei.
Lila Shapiro puts the spotlight
on the small but robust gay contingent within the GOP, which
includes a rivalry between the Log
Cabin Republicans and GOProud.
The stylistic differences between
Log Cabin, which was founded in
the 1970s, and the three-year-old
GOProud were evident in their
convention events: Log Cabin,
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with its white wine and crab
cakes, and GOProud’s male go-go
dancers sporting skin-tight shirts
reading “Freedom is Fabulous.”
As Lila shows, the debates within
gay Republican circles are more
nuanced than many observers
might expect. And the results are
not what you’d expect, either. For
example, it’s the more restrained
Log Cabin members who are unsettled by Mitt Romney’s stance
on gay issues—including his
pledge to ban gay marriage—and
have so far refrained from en-
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