Lightning strikes!

There was much buzz yesterday about this propaganda video from the US “National Organization for Marriage.” In case you missed it:

The Human Rights Campaign’s Joe Solmonese hit the news channels to fight back…

…while HRC got a hold of the audition tapes of the pathetic actors in the NOM video:

Meanwhile, in what seems like a coordinated effort, the National Review launched an anti-gay screed that pundit Andrew Sullivan immediately went after as well.

In the wake of last week’s seismic shift forward in Iowa and Vermont, all this gay-baiting feels like desperation. Homophobia is alive and well in the US (and Canada, let’s not kid ourselves) but, contrary to right-wing paranoia, the storm clouds are lifting.

A former editor of the late, lamented fab magazine, Scott has been writing for Xtra since 2007 on a variety of topics in news pieces, interviews, blogs, reviews and humour pieces. He lives on the Danforth with his boyfriend of 12 years, a manic Jack Russell Terrier, a well-stocked mini-bar and a shelf of toy Daleks.

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