SF Chronicle: Documentary purports to rip GOP's closet doors

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Documentary purports to rip GOP's closet doors
Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

Friday, May 8, 2009


SAN FRANCISCO -- California GOP Rep. David Dreier and a number of other politicians are the unwilling stars of a controversial new documentary with an explosive premise - it's time to blow open the closet door on prominent politicians who have hidden their homosexuality while actively working against gay causes.

The film "Outrage," which opens today at the Embarcadero Center Cinema in San Francisco, presents interviews and documentation charging that a number of prominent legislators - including Dreier, the U.S. representative from San Dimas (Los Angeles County), GOPFlorida Gov. Charlie Crist and former Democratic New York Mayor Ed Koch - have remained closeted while publicly opposing legislation on issues such as same-sex marriage, HIV/AIDS funding, and gays in the military.

Kirby Dick, the film's director, told The Chronicle on Thursday that "it's not only the right thing to do, it's the responsibility of journalists and filmmakers to report on hypocrisy wherever they see it.

"And just because it involves gay sexuality does not mean it should be off-limits."

The passage of Prop. 8 - the anti-same-sex-marriage initiative approved by voters in November, he said, has also fueled "a new urgency ... a wake-up call" on gay civil rights issues. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/08/MNMM17GI6S.DTL

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1. Time to shine a light on the anti-gay gays.

Maybe someone will do the same for the anti-black blacks (like Clarence Thomas) and the anti-woman women (like Sarah Palin) that the republican party has churned out in such numbers.