GUMA = Gay Unity My Ass
We've all heard of PUMA, Party Unity My Ass. It was formed over the summer by ardent supporters of Hillary Clinton who were mightily pissed off about her mistreatment by the mainstream media, voters and Democratic Party grassroots activists. PUMA resisted called for party unity above all else, and its members made valuable contributions to our political discourse.
Get ready now for GUMA, which stands for Gay Unity My Ass. I formed this grassroots group last night after listening to the final subject, gay community unity, being discussed during the LA gay center's virtual town hall meeting on Prop 8 for PC users only. Mac users were shit out of luck, and many gay bloggers who use Macs are taking the leaders of the meeting, and No on Prop 8, to task for this blunder.
Japhy Grant, over at Queerty.com, performed terrifically with live blogging the discussion. Here's what he had to say about the final topic:
7:34pm: And we end this with a "How do we promote unity?" questions and to his credit Geoff Kors says that "an important piece of doing that" is to reach out to new people and new communities. Lori Jean seconds that the community is wide and diverse and that "can be an advantage and a disadvantage."There cannot and will not be any gay community unity with bozos Kors, Jean, Kate Kendell and Joe Solmonese not owning up to their complacency-drenched vacations during the campaign, and other misdeeds. It's insanity to allow them to outragesously maintain they are the leaders to wage the fights over the next ballot initiatives coming our way.
Sure, there's only one member of GUMA right now, but I feel it's safe to say there are other gays who will not tolerate calls by Solmonese, Kors, Jean and Kendell to unite behind them and allow them to make important decisions behind closed doors that affect the rest of us.
Until we have real accountability, including resignations, from Equality California, National Center for Lesbian Rights, the LA Gay Center, and the Human Rights Campaign, it's GUMA time!
[Photo credit: BigMuscleBears.com. Nice piece of bear ass, wouldn't you agree? So nice to look at on this gray San Francisco day.]
3 comments:
No, now that I've read this, there are at least TWO members of GUMA!
So WHO should be leading our community? I agree that these assclowns were outmaneuvered, but I have no idea who is willing, able or qualified to step up and take the reins.
Do you have any suggestions Michael?
peter,
i think if we took the first few gays coming out of any gay bar or AA meeting in CA, we'd have better leaders. well, maybe not totally better than the current crop, but i just don't see how any gay off the street could do worse than the lousy leadership we saw during the prop 8 effort.
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