Gay Republican challenges his party's hate

[The Genealogist]

1. I've only known three of gay Republicans

One came from a wealthy family, and had absolutely no social skills. Another came from a wealthy very religiously conservative family, and this fellow moved leftward as he went through the coming out process. The third was also a very conservative Christian, and more than lacked social skills; he went out of his way to make enemies among gay people who wanted to make positive changes. All of them seemed to have in common a great deal of self-loathing for their being gay, at least at first. I felt bad for each of them, in different ways.