I thought he would be cooler…
Garrison Keillor: A Bigot’s Home Companion — Towleroad for modern gay men,:
Garrison Keillor longs for the good old days in this essay on what children need in Salon. You know, the days when the world wasn’t bothered by all these non-monogamous, flamboyant homosexuals that want to raise children.
Another one bites the dust… Garrison Keillor always creeped be out a little and now I know why… he’s a bigot and a hypocrite! It was my inner sneakascope (I’m rereading Order of the Phoenix). Families look different from each other (thank God). When are all these crazies going to get it and move on? In the meantime, click over to salon.com and let them know you’re unhappy with this pestilential piece. Feel free to send a note to Garrison Keillor, too.
Be sure to click over to Dan Savage’s blog for a good laugh. Thanks again to Towleroad.
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I like A Prairie Home Companion so I was happy to read that GK apologized for his remarks. Oh, I was also happy because it was the right thing to do, etcetera, etcetera. I think this allows me to listen to it guilt free again. Take it for what it’s worth (and I have to admit it’s not as much as it could be) but here is the apology:
http://www.towleroad.com/2007/03/garrison_keillo_1.html
“I live in a small world—the world of entertainment, musicians, writers—in which gayness is as common as having brown eyes. Ever since I was in college, gay men and women have been friends, associates, heroes, adversaries, and in that small world, we talk openly and we kid each other and think nothing of it. But in the larger world, gayness is controversial. In almost every state, gay marriage would be voted down if put on a ballot. Gay men and women have been targeted by the right wing as a hot-button issue. And so gay people out in the larger world feel besieged to some degree. In the small world I live in, they feel accepted and cherished as individuals, but in the larger world they may feel like Types. My column spoke as we would speak in my small world and it was read by people in the larger world and thus the misunderstanding. And for that, I am sorry. Gay people who set out to be parents can be just as good parents as anybody else, and they know that, and so do I.”
Comment by Transformer — March 20, 2007 @ 1:01 am