HUFFINGTON
09.30.12
THE PINK ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
tives hold with Romney, whose
marriage pledge was drafted by
Brown’s group. It was pressure
from Bryan Fischer, a Christian
radio personality with the American Family Association, that led
to the resignation this spring of
Richard Grenell, an openly gay
man appointed to serve as the
Romney campaign’s foreign policy
advisor. (Grenell insists that his
resignation was his own choice
and that if elected Romney will
appoint openly gay Republicans to
serve in his administration.)
Still, most gay Republicans
hold out hope that Romney will,
if not support gay rights, at least
refrain from rolling them back,
and they search for evidence of
this in ethereal hints and cues.
“We don’t listen to what a candidate actually says,” said Sarah
Longwell, a member of Log Cabin’s national board, “We try to
feel where they seem to stand.”
Cooper refuses to discuss his
A reveler at
Homocon
pauses in the
hallway of the
Honey Pot.