Recently in Homophobia Category

— Newt Gingrich

Some members of the LGBT community in Monterey County California are saying that they’ve been “stabbed in the back” by a Salinas City Council member many viewed as a friend and ally.

Recently, a video surfaced on a local news web site that showed Gloria De La Rosa speaking at a Yes on Prop. 8 rally. De La Rosa appears on the video with Jeff Taylor, a vehemently anti-gay candidate for U.S. Congress, and other Prop. 8 supporters who participated in a “Family Values Parade” in Salinas.

What shocked many in the small LGBT community in Monterey County is that De La Rosa is a nurse who provided HIV testing for the Monterey County AIDS Project (MCAP) and the Monterey County Health Department (where she may be still employed).

In a message posted to the Gay Monterey Yahoo! group, an MCAP employee wrote:

Gloria was a friend of mine and the LGBT community, or so I thought, back in the late 1990s and early 2000s.  She was a nurse who provided HIV testing at MCAP and the Health Department in Salinas.
 
I was completely caught off guard while watching this video.  I can not BELIEVE Gloria said what she said and thinks how she thinks after PRETENDING to be supportive of our community.

The video can viewed here:

http://www.citizennewscaster.com/proposition8rally.html

Jeff Taylor lost the election by a landslide to incumbant Sam Farr. Hopefully, De La Rosa will lose the next time she is up for election in Salinas.

“…I wasn’t inspired to encourage black people to vote against the proposition. Why? Because I don’t see why the right to marry should be a priority for me or other black people.”

— Jasmyne Cannick 

“Gay sex produces AIDS, which the state doesn’t have — or should have an interest in. They should charge homosexuals more for their — for their health insurance than they charge the rest of us. I mean, just like they charge — look, if I’m a tobacco smoker, I pay more, right?”

— Jim Quinn, conservative radio host