Radio Host to Gay NH Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley: 'Yeah you Faggot. That's right I said it and I meant it.'

Gay New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley was called a "faggot" by the host of a well-known New Hampshire right-wing radio show yesterday. NH Political Report via Blue Hampshire:

After his radio show "Meet the New Press" ended today, GraniteGrok.com co-founder Doug Lambert looked into a live web-streaming camera, mockingly wished state Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley a Happy Birthday and then called Buckley a "faggot" before basically wishing him dead.

...After co-host Skip Murphy said that he should probably shut off the feed, Lambert looked into the camera and said, "Speaking of gays, Happy Birthday Ray Buckley. Are you going to Holland or taking another trip with your buddies?"

He then dances in a way meant to mock a gay male and says: "Yeah you Faggot. [Pause.] That's right I said it and I meant it. You are reprobate. How the people, the Democrats, I think of some of the gray haired ladies and older people from the old party would stand behind you is beyond me. You are a disgrace to yourself to humanity to mankind and to your party.

"Other than that Happy Birthday Ray and many more -- not," Lambert continued before the feed was quickly shut off.

Lambert's remarks were condemned by Rep. Jim Splaine: "Ray Buckley has put up with a lot since he let others know he is gay.  All of us who are openly gay are at times on the receiving end of such disgusting comments.  Some of us receive hate mail or calls for what we do on our fight for equality.  But in this case, Ray and the many others who have worked hard this year and in years past to achieve marriage equality in New Hampshire have a louder voice than this GraniteGrok co-host character.  The majority of people in New Hampshire are on the side of equality and love, not hate and discrimination."

Lambert apologized soon after the slur, but not before NH-01 Congressman Jeb Bradley (R) and current GOPer NH-Sen explorer Ovide Lamontagne, who were on his show today, distanced themselves. Said Lambert: "To be blunt, what I said is something that never should have been said in any kind of a public setting, or, quite frankly, in a private one either. Being human, and an honest person that is used to freely speaking my mind, my passion got the best of me."

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South African Gay Activist Zackie Achmat Marries Partner

South African HIV/AIDS activist and founder of that country's Treatment Action Campaign Zackie Achmat married his partner Dalli Weyers over the weekend in front of 300 guests at the Imperial Yacht Club near Cape Town.

The Sunday Times reports:

"Judge Edwin Cameron, complete with glitter eye make-up, officiated. He had applied to become a magistrate in the Wynberg district for the day so he could conduct the ceremony. Guests at the cheerful and relaxed occasion included Cape Town mayor Helen Zille, cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, axed deputy health minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, Judge Dennis Davis and former South African high commissioner Cheryl Carolus. The wedding invitations bore the slogan 'safe sex, antiretroviral drugs and rock ’n’ roll' — a play on the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll mantra of the ’60s and ’70s."

Achmat has worked to make TAC respected throughout South Africa by focusing on health care programs in the public sector. He also founded the National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality, won the inaugural Desmond Tutu Leadership Award, the Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights in 2003, and the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights in 2003. A U.S. Quaker humanitarian group nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.

Weyers told South Africa's Sunday Times: "The nervousness fortunately only relates to getting everything done. But nervous for the actual ceremony? No. It is just a natural step and I don’t think Zackie or I will have extra expectations of each other after the ceremony. We are very in love and that is obviously going to go on, so we don’t see the ceremony as necessarily changing anything. We are very excited because the day essentially will be about family and friends and sharing it with them."

Added Achmat: "What attracted me to Dallie was his degree of maturity, a sense of seriousness and also that he is a very decent human being — apart from the fact that he is a very handsome man with the most beautiful eyes you’ve ever seen. So clear and strong. Our relationship is one of deep companionship and a love for life and shared but not identical interests. [My life] is very difficult and busy and also one of the difficulties in making the decision was obviously that he doesn’t have HIV and I do and I always worry about that. Then there is the age difference, which is enormous. I am 45."

According to the paper, "The honeymoon will be spent at a friend’s lodge in Lesotho and visiting Weyers’s mother Delina at her Free State home."

Best wishes to them!