Petrelis Files

Gay RI Mayor Cicilline:
Silent on RI Bully Suicide

We are in the midst of a deadly, horrific silence and lack of action epidemic by too many Gay Inc leaders, Barack Obama appointees and Victory Fund-sponsored incumbent politicians. Click here to read about Houston's lesbian Mayor Annise Parker's muteness regarding the bullying death of Houston kid Asher Brown.

Raymond Chase

To compound Parker's silence, add to it the silence from Providence's gay Mayor David Cicilline, and U.S. Congressional candidate, over the death of openly gay sophomore Raymond Chase. At the time of suicide, Chase was attending Johnson and Wales University, located in Cicilline's backyard.

If you're not depressed enough already about the silence of White House gay liaison and former Victory Fund director Brian Bond and Mayor Parker, here's more bad news about gay leadership over the bullying tragedies.

 Cicilline, center, Victory Fund leader Chuck Wolfe, right.

Cicilline's official mayoral press relations page is devoid of anything on Chase's death. Over at his Congressional candidacy site, nothing on the death, but Cicilline says he'll support a federal bill, yawn, about safe schools. Someone should tell the candidate Congress ain't interested in protecting fags, and one more gay in the House won't address the bullying problem at the school-yard level. And if the candidate can't open his mouth before being elected on such a death in his hometown, I don't expect he'll do much better speaking out for us at the national level.

Simple Google searching turned up not a single statement from Cicilline on the Chase matter, with the exact results delivered from using the news and blog search engines. Where did Cicilline raise his voice in recent days about Chase's demise?

If you ask me, we have a serious problem, or few dozen, with the bill of goods we've been sold by the Victory Fund, at least two of their sponsored candidates, and Gay Inc leadership that led to the appointment, and continuing silence of Brian Bond and Kevin Jennings. (Okay, Jennings made a very small peep yesterday on a restricted listserv, but it doesn't being to make up for this year-plus of silence as the federal safe schools chief.

The next time Gay Inc comes around and says we need the public, or community members, or President Obama, or other elected officials, or celebrities, or anyone else to speak up about the outrageous bullying problem and the suicides in recent weeks, let's all be sure to ask about the silence of Jennings, Bond, Parker and Cicilline.