Comments on: I thought he would be cooler… http://www.gaygevalt.com/blog/2007/03/17/i-thought-he-would-be-cooler/ Gay Jewish news for Gay Jewish People Thu, 17 May 2012 06:33:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Transformer http://www.gaygevalt.com/blog/2007/03/17/i-thought-he-would-be-cooler/#comment-3 Transformer Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:01:58 +0000 http://gaygevalt.com/blog/2007/03/17/i-thought-he-would-be-cooler/#comment-3 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." 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.”

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