Post 36 - Ignorance Not To Be Confused With Marital Bliss

Being the reputable blog that we are, we usually try to stay away from the gossip pages, but good old Page Six ran a piece the other day that was too good to pass up. Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch was angry, not because a filmmaker claimed he was gay (not that there's anything wrong with that), but because his record on gay rights issues was misrepresented. Ed Koch, career politician even after his career is over. The interesting thing about the comments is that most people didn't seem to really care about his alleged gayness, especially since he never acknowledged it or even hinted at it.

DA wrote:Unlike a lot of people today, Koch was not a professional gay where
24/7 everything is gay gay gay to the exclusion of more important issues.
Whatever he is, he was private about his personal life when being gay was really
frowned upon and would have lost him elections, and remained private even when
it was somewhat accepted. But contrary to what most young people are taught
today, no one particularly cared what gays did in the past outside of the vice
squad and they were mostly involved in public solicitation cases (I guess they
still are to a degree) And unless you went around announcing it to everybody
there was really no discrimination in things like housing because plenty of
straight men had male roommates. The service has always had gays in it so unless
you were committing some overt sexual acts that would be noticed they were
pretty much ignored too.Of course things like gay marriage would have been
thought insane and laughed at but I doubt if many gays want to marry anyway. If
it's ever made legal I think people will be surprised at how few gays do it.

We're not sure how exactly one becomes a "professional gay." Do you have to declare for the gay draft and give up your amateur gay eligibility? Or if your a Dominican can you just sign with the gay Yankees and forgo the draft? Can professional gays participate in the gay Olympics? DA is so right about the good old days, back in the 80's when nobody really care if you were gay or not as long as you didn't go around telling people (hi, mom & dad, what are you doing here? umm, this is Joe, my roommate...). And the gay marriage thing is totally blown out of proportion, we don't know a single gay person who wants to be treated equally and have the same right to marry and hate their spouse like straight people do. We'd be totally surprised if it ever became like a state-wide referendum or a court case or anything like that. DA is a genius, totally no discrimination going on, just a lot of ignor-ance.