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Gay activists ambush former Ga. Attorney General Michael Bowers at luncheon, present him with Gross Hypocrisy Award. A Southern Voice reporter, who was there taking photos of the incident and talking to Bowers, was escorted out of the luncheon. SoVo: "In the 1986 U.S. Supreme Court case known as Bowers v. Hardwick, Bowers successfully defended Georgia’s anti-sodomy law against a challenge by Michael Hardwick, a gay man who was arrested inside his Atlanta apartment for engaging in consensual oral sex with another man. The 5-4 decision in Bowers v. Hardwick made it illegal to be a sexually active gay man or lesbian in Georgia, until the Georgia Supreme Court struck down the state sodomy law 12 years later."
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Posted Oct. 4,2006 at 4:45 PM EST by Andy Towle in AIDS/HIV, Apple, Fashion Men, Gay Rights, News, Oscar Nuñez, Superheroes, Television | Permalink
Just as many on here said
That ad would just fuel the religous right
"See, those pervs admit it themselves" etc
Posted by: jimmyboyo | Oct 4, 2006 5:52:50 PM
Yup, thanks for arming the nutjobs.
Posted by: Marco | Oct 4, 2006 6:17:47 PM
Hmm. I didn't read "overjoyed" in that piece. In fact, it was downright subdued compared to the shrill tone the fundies usually take on when they talk about us. I think the campaign has left them a bit disoriented and speechless--if this article provides any evidence of its effect.
Posted by: Tom | Oct 4, 2006 6:41:53 PM
I wish the ads said, "People, stop fucking each other without a condom!" That would have been more truthful.
Posted by: Timothy | Oct 4, 2006 7:31:29 PM
Ah, the days of breaking the sodomy laws in Georgia with my boyfriend. Good times.
This ad campaign would probably be ok if it was only visible to gay people in the Castro and Chelsea, but unfortunately, not. Have to wonder if it will be effective, meanwhile, the fundies can run with it, but at this point, is anyone even listening to those crazy Christo-fascist bastards anyway?
Posted by: So Left I'm Right | Oct 4, 2006 8:25:10 PM
"I wish the ads said, "People, stop fucking each other without a condom!" That would have been more truthful."
Wanna know an ad that'd be even more truthful?
"People, stop being gluttons, and stop treating your body and others as sexual tools."
Now that would be the day.
Posted by: TheSentry | Oct 5, 2006 12:43:32 AM
MMMMM.. Green Arrow.. ;)
Studly.. WAHOOOOO!!!!!
And yeah, being a GA boy myself.. I gotta say there was an edge to sex when the sodomy ban was still up. it was taboo. ;) Now it's like str8 sex.. blech! heehhehe.. And Bowers.. well he's a nutjob hypocrite.. anad that's all he'll ever be to me. Lawyers can run around patting each other on the ass for this low and that verdict.. but when it comes time for the historical judgment, they will be on the side that will be cast as the villain.
Posted by: Darren | Oct 5, 2006 7:45:36 AM
Bowers is an asshole, for certain, but I don't get the "hypocrite" label ... is he gay or something?
Posted by: Glenn | Oct 5, 2006 9:13:28 AM
Let's see - I have a choice between "fueling" some wingnut conservatives who nobody really listens to anyway and maybe (just maybe) getting through to one of those kids who thinks HIV doesn't happen to people like him.
Propaganda vs. saving lives. Easy choice for me.
Posted by: Dan | Oct 5, 2006 9:35:35 AM
Bowers is a hypocrite for basically firing a lesbian (Robin Shahar) from his office because she was violating Georgia law at the time (the sodomy law) while he was in a longterm extramarital affiar which violated Georgia's statutes on fornication and adultery..
That's what makes him a hypocrite.
Posted by: Darren | Oct 5, 2006 9:40:03 AM
Ah, I hadn't heard about the affair on Bowers' part. Typical. Thanks, Darren.
Posted by: Glenn | Oct 5, 2006 10:26:32 AM