HUFFINGTON
09.30.12
THE PINK ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
Party” by lobbying for same-sex
marriage, anti-discrimination
laws, and other gay causes.
With 44 chapters and more than
45,000 members, it has become
the closest thing there is in the
gay Republican scene to “the establishment.” Its nemesis and
counterpart is the three-year-old
GOProud, the only other national
organization for gay Republicans.
While Log Cabin’s white-wine
affair at the Rusty Pelican was
designed to appeal to the oldschool Republican country-club
set, GOProud’s event, dubbed
Homocon, featured male go-go
dancers in skin-tight “Freedom
is Fabulous” belly-tees.
Among the first arrivals to Homocon, which kicked off a few
nights later at a gay nightclub
across town, was Mark Foley, the
Republican ex-congressman who
resigned in 2006 after rumors
Gay
Republicans,
delegates,
reporters
and local
gay liberals
attended
Homocon,
GOProud’s
party at
the 2012
Republican
National
Convention
in Tampa.