That old gay victim line again

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2007/11/29/that-old-gay-victim-line-again-i/

[Anglican Mainstream] 29.11.07--I first came across the following development in a ‘right-wing’ periodical and held fire. Turned out it was right on the money. Matt Daniels of the Alliance for Marriage recently flagged it, this time in Time. When will the penny drop for people that gay is NOT victim? When will people realise that this stereotype is blatantly untrue and outdated? We have a whole new class of victims today - and gay is not one of them! Time describes the extraordinary success of many high-flying, successful and wealthy gay folk - and now politically dominant. Not bad for 2-3% (?) of the population!

Gill ’started the Gill Foundation, which has invested $110 million nationwide in gay causes over the past decade. The Gill Action Fund threw $15 million into a dozen states during the 2006 midterm elections, targeting 70 politicians regarded as unhelpful to gay causes: 50 went down. And the fund is helping transform the political face of Colorado … Impatient with the lack of gay rights progress this past decade, Gill is pushing hard to end injustice and inequality by the end of the next decade. And recognizing that most anti-gay initiatives are born at the state level, Gill has developed a national political strategy based on successes in Colorado. “They’ve taken an in-state model and applied it to the entire country,” says Denver political analyst Floyd Ciruli. “Gill (and his people) are incredibly strategic. They simply don’t waste money. They put their funding where they can take control of legislatures.” Ciruli adds, “People were unaware of what was going on for quite awhile, but now I think everybody knows that they have really changed the direction of the state. I’m not sure that everyone really understands how potent (Gill) is, but he now has to be the number one gay rights advocate in the country in terms of funding and strategy. They’re taking significant contributions and putting them brilliantly in legislative environments where a few seats changing will change the entire control of a state.”‘