Yes, my gay son was known in our family for bringing me flowers on my birthday and Mother’s Day. He also was known for careening down the rugby pitch, and, on the morning of September 11, 2001, for charging unarmed down the aisle of a doomed Boeing 757 to face knife-wielding Islamist thugs in a hijacked cockpit.
No one among his pick-up team of fellow passengers was asking 'Are you straight? Are you gay?' No one doubted that a guy who weighed 220 and stood 6’4” tall -- who could run over a charging opponent on the field, and ran with the bulls in Pamplona earlier that summer -- would be an asset to a desperate group trying to overcome a threat onboard an airliner.
The world has its share of strong, heroic gay men. Gay men in sports uniforms and military uniforms have been winning America’s games and fighting America’s battles for a long time: quietly, humbly, and in the face of vicious bigotry.
- Alice Hoagland, in response to Carson Daly's joke that gay people wouldn't have been able to take down the Jet Blue pilot who freaked out earlier this week. Hoagland's son Mark Bingham was one of the heroes aboard Flight 93.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
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Just when I think I have a basic understanding of humanity I hear crap like this. What being gay has to do with anything is beyond me but it perplexes me even more that being gay has some sort of bearing on physical strength. My only guess at understanding this is Carson Daly is not 100 % sure of his own sexuality and needs to make comments like this to make sense of his fucked up world.
I think making fun of gay people has been socially acceptable for comedians for a long time and it's only in the last couple of years that people have started calling them on it. I agree that he probably has some insecurities about his own sexuality.
Comedy isn't a bad thing, laughing about it isn't so bad... Lots of times it is a matter of "laughing with" instead of "laughing at." Except this man gave his life to save people, and that's not very funny.
In certain places of the world, homosexuals get the death penalty.
"Guilty until proven straight."
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