"I know, riiight?"

I disagree with Stonewall DFL Chair David Joseph DeGrio, who on the 4th of July sent out a memo asking everyone to leave Marcus Bachmann aloooone.

More to the point, he says:

"I don't view saying that someone's gay is a negative thing, but I believe that perceived sexuality was being used as an attack on Marcus Bachmann, and I find it unacceptable to use perceived sexuality as an attack on anybody...The message I see it sending is a bit hypocritical because we're advocating for policies in schools to stop this exact thing, saying someone's effeminate or someone speaks with a high-pitched voice or even [saying] someone is gay because this is a gay characteristic."

Aside from the tortured prose...he's wrong. He's dead wrong. Why? Because it is not the same "exact thing" to tease someone for being nelly as it is to tease and call out someone who is virulently anti-gay yet who seems pretty obviously gay himself. Or excuse me, he seems ex-gay.

It's not that people are laughing at a screamer—our community is filled with screamers, and the way I see it, most of us recognize we have quite a few screams or at least dull roars within us so it's kind of a communal thing—it's that a laughably transparent queen is attacking homosexuality and trying to cure it.

They're different things. It's not funny because Bachmann is gay-vibing, it's darkly funny because such an gay-vibing man is railing against gayness.