HUFFINGTON
09.30.12
THE PINK ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
red-white-and-blue rectangle of
the Log Cabin Republicans. Weissman wholeheartedly believes that
same-sex marriage should be legal,
and he also believes that his taxes
should be low. Unlike the majority of gay people, he refuses to see
those two things as mutually exclusive. “The issues of economic
growth are now so central that that
has to be the way I vote,” he said.
Cooper, a soft-spoken Army
captain who says his shiny head
is frequently confused with that
of the Republican strategist Steve
Schmidt, spent much of the week
schmoozing with people at cocktail parties throughout the city.
Unlike many gay conservatives,
Cooper attributes his Republican loyalties to national security
concerns and — perhaps harder
to shake — his family’s tradition.
Gay
Republicans
gather in
Tampa at a
brunch for
the Young
Republicans
for the
Freedom
To Marry.