June 24, 2007

Gore Vidal: Homophobe?

The jack-booted homophobic fascism of the Christian right's vitriolic anti-war left's leading voices is really heating up!

From one of the left's favorite anti-Bush icons:

Vidal, 81, told the London Observer: "Edmund White will yet be feeling the wrath of my lawyers. It's unethical and vicious to make it very clear that this old faggot writer is based on me, and that I'm madly in love with Timothy McVeigh, who I never met."
Easy there, Viddy!

I'm sure Glenn Rick Ellensburg Greenwald will just be erupting in outrage, followed by a gobsmackingly infuriated set of rhetorical salvos from Andrew Sullivan. The dynamic duo often have many nuanced things to say about the homophobia they perceive from the "right." What about the blatant, homophobic hate-speech in their own house?

Former Grey's Anatomy star Isiah Washington, for example, was forced to go through a media-driven public humiliation and flogging over his use of the "F-word." Will Gore Vidal be given the same treatment? He's not exactly a nobody, you know.

By Good Lt. at 07:58 PM | |