Homo Ffectional's Journal

Congressional Gay Caucus
Greetings. I thought I would make up the only list for a Congressional Gay Caucus since there isn't one at the .gov domain quite just yet (I don't consider the LGBT Equality Caucus the same thing, and won't, at least until they let a lot more join up in the Congressional Black Caucus than just Steve Cohen, and not just for a lack of members like the "Associate Members" of the Congressional Hispanic Conference.):

Not exactly surprising, it's quite short, and the first list, of openly gay House members, is a mere three members, and all Democrats, at that (Surprise!):

Barney Frank (D-MA) 4th District
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) 2nd District
Jared Polis (D-CO) 2nd District

As for the inevitably annoying closet cases [thus far; there are more in the works]:

David Dreier (R-CA) 26th District -- who should be continued to be pressed to come out (no pun intended) for the repeal of Proposition 8.

Patrick T. McHenry (R-NC) 10th District
Watch him both justify his opposition to marriage equality and demand a minority (party) "Bill of Rights", in the typical, hypocritical GOP way!
Update May 17th, 2007 Patrick McHenry's Very Gay Voter Fraud Scandal
Update May 24th McHenry, licking a lollipop (no joke)
Update May 28th And as these scandals brew, find out more about the kinds of censorship the US government is engaging in to cover them up, on behalf of McHenry's unscrupulous conduct to save his immoral political ambition
Update April 4th, 2008 Openly lesbian Rachel Maddow calls out closet case McHenry on his treatment of a patriotic US soldier

Meanwhile, in the upper house of Congress, will Mitch McConnell (R-KY) be the first first US Senate member to actually come out and acknowledge his orientation when it becomes knowledge to the national public instead of the open local secret in the last few cases in recent years?

So, as I said, it's quite short, even including the closet cases (at least those who have opposed any form of gay rights thus far).

I've also decided to leave up those that served in the 110th Congress, and will consider removing them after they've been gone for at least a year or two --

James McCrery (R-LA) 4th District.

UPDATE 6/4/08: In an unprecedented move, the US House of Representatives has formed an "LGBT Equality Caucus" comprised of gay and straight members that have rallied around the cause of LGBT rights. Oh, and it's bipartisan. Barely.

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