As we drift through the Boring & Evil era of politics, we hear a great deal about demographics of people who have been “left behind” in the political process.
Typically this includes POC, BIPOC (bi people of color), indigenous Americans (NOT CONSERVATIVE ONES), women (NOT CONSERVATIVE ONES), 16 year olds (who can’t vote), DC residents (where the federal government is the largest employer), and so on.
In this quest to root out marginalized(!) groups, one is actually left behind – conservative gay men.
I’m not talking about penny-loafer-wearing Capitol Hill insiders with jaunty ties who drop Hill gossip over the sound of clinking mixer glasses.
I’m referring to young men across the country who happen to be gay and conservative.
They’re already politically alienated by the gay community – Gay Inc enjoys condemning conservative gay men in between chasing the wokest takes.
The conservative community is desperate to have anyone under the age of retirement be a voice, so they’ll slap a lapel mic on the most boring, talking-points-bleating gay conservatives and put them on air.
I’m talking about guys where being gay is not the core of their personality – they have brown hair, it’s 72 degrees, and they’re gay – and they dare to think outside of DNC talking points or our Corporate Clown World governance.
The lack of community for these guys has pushed most of them to put their head to the grindstone and just focus on life – get an education, start a career, support their families, be the cool uncle, find someone to share life experiences with.
And yet this driven, creative, interesting, thoughtful group of men is criminally underrepresented in American politics because they don’t hold grievance. There are no conservative gay men marches, no hashtags, no representation in advertising or media.
Voting-wise this group supported alleged-homophobe, gay icon Donald Trump more than any Republican candidate in history.
Because of this, these guys are slammed as being self-hating, betraying their own.
Imagine trying to date someone who could think that about you!
This is neither a lecture to the gay community to accept gay conservative men (they won’t) nor to conservatives to accept gay conservatives (desperate) nor to gay conservatives to embrace grievance (cringe).
It’s the ethos of Friends of Abe – how can gay conservative men share ideas, be included in the political process, and eventually, influence it?
This is a generation of promising young men, who have been taxed without representation for too long.
