Tag Archives: GOProud

On Tuesday Massachusetts votes on Ted Kennedy’s Senate replacement, a contest that attracted huge donations from health care reform opponents. Today the president issued the below endorsement of MA Attorney General Martha Coakley, an outspoken advocate for health care reform AND a friend of the LGBT community. UPDATE: GOProud head Christopher Barron has posted another diatribe, this time accusing the …

Keeping their threat to pull out of the CPAC wingnut convention if the dirty queers at GOProud were allowed to remain as a co-sponsor, Liberty University’s Mat Staver said his group will not attend. Oh, but his OTHER group, Liberty Counsel will. Staver reports that he never received a formal response to his complaint, so Liberty University is dropping its …

GOProud’s chairman of the board Christopher Barron is angry that liberals haven’t supported their sponsorship of the ultraconservative wingnut CPAC conference. Barron writes in a Metro Weekly editorial: In a case of truly strange bedfellows, the gay left has joined the most radical elements of the social conservative movement in attacking GOProud’s participation. You can understand the fear of extremists …

Bowing to increasing pressure from the religious right, organizers of the 2010 CPAC say that while they will allow GOProud to attend and co-sponsor the event, they will not be given an opportunity to speak. Because gay rights are not open to debate. CPAC director Lisa De Pasquale told Hot Air last week that she was “satisfied” that GOProud “do …

Jerry Falwell Jr. has joined the call to ban GOProud from co-sponsoring the wingnut confab CPAC-2010 and has cosigned a letter threatening to pull out of the event if the dirty homos are allowed to appear. A pro-family leader says organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference are engaging in “moral surrender” by allowing a Republican homosexual activist group to …

Matt Barber says that if the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) allows Log Cabin Republicans splinter group GOProud to remain as a co-sponsor, he will lead a boycott of the event by anti-gay groups. Oh NOES! Porno Pete breathlessly reports: Folks, for years religious conservatives have been complaining about getting the shaft from CPAC, the annual Conservative Political Action …

Log Cabin Republicans splinter group GOProud has announced that they will be a cosponsor of the 2010 CPAC. The Conservative Political Action Conference is the annual wingnut confab in Washington DC perhaps best known for its 2007 event, during which Ann Coulter declared that Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards was a “faggot.” Via GOProud press release: Today, GOProud, the only …

The party of Margaret Thatcher wooed LGBT support yesterday by throwing a massive gay club night in Manchester, where the Tories are holding their annual party conference. “Party with your fellow conservatives” read the poster. Skin-tight T-shirts, posters of semi-naked men and buckets of condoms on the tables. This was not a typical fringe event at the Conservative party conference. …

Using the theme from the Exorcist, Log Cabin Republicans splinter-group GOProud just posted this YouTube clip attacking Barack Obama’s coming appearance at the HRC dinner in Washington DC.

The Washington Independent is reporting that an amendment allowing gun owners to carry their concealed weapons across state lines may be attached to the Matthew Shepard Act, the Senate’s hate crimes bill. The spurious reasoning: It will protect gays from bashing. Yeeeeah. And GOProud nutter Jimmy LaSalvia one of the people behind it. One month after successfully tucking an amendment …

The eagle-eyed Jeremy Hooper at Good As You has noticed that Jimmy LaSalvia (left), the cofounder and head of GOProud, the new uber-right Log Cabin Republicans spinoff, has signed onto a document calling for a Senate filibuster to block the approval of SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor. And who are LaSalvia’s cosignees? How about Peter LaBarbera, Donald Wildmon, Rev. Lou Sheldon, …

If you thought the Log Cabin Republicans were too progressive, now there’s an even wing-ier group for gay conservatives. Via Bruce Carroll at Gay Patriot: I am thrilled to help announce the birth of a new national gay conservative organization, GOProud. As long-time readers know I have been very critical of the national Log Cabin Republicans for many years. Their …