Posted on 10/29/2004 11:53:20 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
They're traveling across the country on their off weekends to spread the word, and last week Michelle Clunie, Scott Lowell and Robert Gant from the cast of the Showtime original series "Queer As Folk" spoke to the gay press via a national conference call. Their message is simple: Bush must go.
"I am sure that this is one of the most important elections we may ever see in America," said Clunie, who spoke first. "America is divided right now. There are two futures ahead of us and we have the ability to choose whether we want to live in a true democracy and fight to expand on civil rights, which FDR noted was and is the entire purpose of the Constitution, or if we want to slowly chip away at the Constitution and thereby chip away at freedom and what this country and its forefathers had in mind when writing the Constitution."
Clunie said the stakes are so high that she had no choice but to publicly come out for Kerry.
"In the LGBT community we have over 4 million voters," she said. "We must not underestimate our power. That is enough to swing the election. That is enough to choose the next president of the United States and to help not only our country but the rest of the world avoid war, hatred, greed and bigotry as we step into the 21st century with a real leader who has the finesse and inner strength and foresight to move ahead and not backward as our opponent would like. We must understand that we're responsible to do everything we can - every single one of us - to get the vote out, volunteer, vote early in Florida and Oregon and do everything we can until Nov. 2, and that is what I believe and that's why I'm doing this because I don't think I'd be able to sleep at night if I didn't."
Clunie's fellow cast members shared similar sentiments.
"When we were in Ohio over the weekend, that's what I was constantly talking to young gay folks at these bars about, is that being hung over is no excuse for not getting to the polls," said Gant. "And beyond getting yourself to the poll, it's about getting five other people to the polls, whether we're driving down together, forcing friends, calling them, dragging them kicking and screaming. One thing that I was explaining to these young kids is that having your gay card is no longer about your ability to recite show tunes or have a fashion sense, it's now about whether or not you vote. And if you don't vote, you get your gay card revoked."
Gant also advised apathetic listeners to snap out of it.
"There's this odd apathy, I think, among gay people, which is odd because we are such a disenfranchised group," he said. "I think it's in part due to the fact that our gay youth are maybe overly focused on social lives, we are very focused on careers and whatnot and yet we forget that it's because of the granting of our rights or what hangs in the balance that we're able to enjoy these things. I think part of why we were less inclined to participate, why we may be apathetic, and I think I had been for quite a long period in my life, is that I didn't feel included. I didn't feel like I was a citizen in the same way that everyone was a citizen and I still don't feel that I am from a rights perspective, and yet I realize that at some point that rather than deciding to opt out because I didn't feel a member of the club, I've had to make a conscious choice to opt in. And so what this is about is not just convincing people who they should vote for, what we're really into now is getting bodies to the polls."
If we don't, said Lowell, we'll have only ourselves to blame for four more years of pure evil.
"So many people are apathetic about voting because they feel like it's the lesser of two evils, 'I don't like either of the guys,'" he said. "Well, I don't really see how you can sit back and say this is an election of the lesser of two evils. It's an election of good versus pure evil. I don't think there's any lesser to be had here."
They need to -
"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
What a suprise endorsement...
No way!! That is so gay.
So the gays in "Queer as folk" are voting Democrat? STOP THE PRESSES!
*rolling eyes* Next thing you know, headlines will blare that rain is wet and sugar is sweet.
I won't be whipping out my surprised look for this one.
I'm sure they'r right behind Kerry...
It sure caught me off guard. </sarcasm>
Not only is Bush supported by the right people, he's hated by the right people.
Oh, I thought the headline said "Sun rises in East"
Oh, I thought the headline said "Sun rises in East"
This is really, really funny!
And the Islamofascists will kill every one of them if given the chance.
Never mind that. Have the Fab Five put theirs out yet?
"Pardon me while I whip this out."
In other major stories, the Pope denounces violence and the latest Pauly Shore movie bombed.
The President chould concede now, how can he win without this endorsement?
That's a darn good quote.
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