Gay Republicans

When I was a kid growing up in Kansas, I was told by my schoolyard compatriots that a male having an earring in the right ear only or having a bandanna sticking out of either the left or right back pocket of your jeans (they weren't sure) was a code that let other homosexuals know that you too were gay. Of course, growing up in a small farming community of under 2000 (pretty ignorant) people along with the fact that these same schoolyard chums/chumps said that if you don't bounce up and down right during sex, you'll kill the woman you're making love to, I took it with a chunk of salt.

(And I took that chunk of salt to the library and found various female health books that I read while covering them up with a giant Charlie Brown collection looking for something on female copulation mortality rates. Fortunately I didn't find anything as that would have led to a lot more performance anxiety before my first time)

Anyway, I don't know if these codes were ever true. However, I do believe that saying, "I'm a staunch, pro-family conservative," will become the latest code in one of two scenarios.

Scenario 1: An actual thing said by gays to other people in bars to see if they swing the same way.
Scenario 2: Something that schoolyard children believe that gays say to other people to see if they swing the same way.

Scenario 2, unfortunately, brings with it new teasing opportunities. No longer will playground taunts about a parent's sexuality be about seeing one kid's dad wearing something pink or having a nebbish dork of a dad (not that either of those mean anything, but I remember how kids think). No, it will be the kids with the dads who wear suits and are bankers, business owners, involved in Republican politics, etc. who will have to endure the jeers of their classmates.

TlalocW

OMG that is so funny.

It's more than a little satisfying to watch the GOP's weird predicament, their sweaty paranoia over the gay-hating they've inflamed among their faithful. Homophobes worried about homophobic persecution, can justice be more poetic?

They need to quit acting like idiots. Or get a bigger closet.