Ironically, Gordon Fox claims Winston Churchill as his role model.

She’s hit her max potential in GA, now in her 5th term, she runs unopposed, and is sort of forgotten about.

We have gotten absolutely nowhere when discussing “civil rights” in exactly those quarters where we need votes – among socially conservative blacks and Hispanics.

When, however “separate is never equal” comes up, it – for whatever reason – draws attention to the inequity of the current situation. People get to thinking, “If they can do it to one group, they can do it to other groups, too”.

And that helps us.

Gay politicians are wonderful on paper. Unfortunately, for every Mayor of Berlin, we have 10 Westerwelle here in Europe. Be careful what you ask for -

It is happening, however. There are young politicians – none yet on the national stage – whose entry into politics was through the community rather than through the closet.

I long for a politician who doesn’t see our community as a constituency to be courted, but as a people to represent. It is a sad truth that our biggest allies are not even gay.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-2008election-california-results,0,3304898.htmlstory

Even in San Francisco it was a close margin to Prop 8′s defeat.

That’s the sad reality of being a minority of our nature, not born into a community but diluted in many, and in small numbers to boot.

We need coalitions to get things done, and the drawback to that is that coalitions function on good faith, but how can it be enforced when the gay community is so politically weak compared to Hispanics, who will be making up the majority racial minority in the country in a matter of decades.