Comments on: Finding Fuel in the Mainstream

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:42:00 +0000

Your article was a ray of sunshine for this anxiety-ridden lesbian mother’s heart. (And yes, there’s only one of me . . .)

Thank you so much for allowing me to laugh at the laughable–but unfortunately not terribly funny–bigotry I face every day.

Keep up the great work!

By: David

David — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:40:40 +0000

Great answers! You GO, girl!

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:39:23 +0000

Fuel? They speak with methane! Keep up the great work you do — they will run outta gas sometime.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:38:31 +0000

Wonderful responses of yours in Lavender [Don't faint with this POSITIVE response for a change... ] You know, those folks who emailed you that trash must be using quotes from Gary Bauer’s manual of hateful things to say to queers… you go girl…

Richard
Atascadero, CA

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:37:34 +0000

Just read your column in Lavender magazine and wanted to tell you how grateful I am for your writing of what must be said. You are so right when you refer to the nasty emails and so forth as fuel versus hate mail. I am a mother of a now 20 year old gay son. I am also an avid activist and I continually get the “fueling” phone calls, emails and regular mail. They as well as the photo of my son’s bloody broken body, a photo taken after his anti-gay assault when he was 16, are my fuel.

I keep that photo on my desk to remind me why I must go on. I am very proud of your work. Just wanted to send you a personal note of gratitude.

Sincerely,

Carolyn
Fayetteville, Arkansas

By: Mary from Georgia

Mary from Georgia — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:35:10 +0000

Thank you for your column taking on Dubya! The man scares the socks off of me and none of my x friends, who happen to be Republican, can seem to see what a mean minded bigot he is. He has done precisely what I expected him to do by first attacking a womyn’s right to
choose and then nominating a fundie like Ashcroft. The man is appalling and no one is listening!

By: David S

David S — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:33:54 +0000

Sorry for sounding so radical, but thank you from the bottom of my heart and from all my friends for standing up for us.

How great it would be if the gay community had a celebration of the Righteous Straights like Jews have of the Righteous Gentiles who helped them in their hours of bitterest distress.

Please continue to stand by us in the ucoming four years. We are going to need every friendly voice to help see us through this period.

Thank you….thank you….thank you!

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 05:23:49 +0000

I suspect the lack of serious argument means they don’t have any–and know that they don’t have any–that are publicly defensible. And the letters seem to be getting more strident as the number of gay-hostile people decreases, as the moderate voices increasingly swing to our side, leaving only the venomously anti-gay people to express that side of the issue.

By: W

Sat, 15 Apr 2006 05:22:04 +0000

You wrote: “While I don’t want to encourage more homophobic e-mails, I just can’t bring myself to refer to them as “hate mail.” I call them “fuel,” because that’s what they are–extra incentives to keep going and to remind me that so much educating is yet to be done.”

These lines are exactly what I needed to read tonight. Thanks.