The Disco Era marked the acceptance of gays in America. Schoolchildren were singing "YMCA" as parents decided the kids would not be in on the joke. Gays were fun, and people like fun.

But the excesses of disco -- particularly cocaine abuse -- led to a fall in favorability. AIDS also did not help. I am convinced that had we quarantined the infected, we could have saved lives. Instead, we treated it as a civil right instead of a venereal disease.

40 years (two generations) later, we have gay marriage and a gay candidate for president, Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

The backlash against him comes from the homosexual community. He is not queer enough, or queerty as they prefer.

A very nasty and graphic column appeared in New Republic by Dale Peck, a gay writer.

Ace did a fine job on Sunday as he picked apart Peck's piece. Ace wrote, "I know that paragraph breaks might be heteronormative and not fit with the flibbertigibbet fifteen year old girl style this author is going for, but forgive my trespass."

Peck called Mayor Pete "Mary Pete." Oh to be 15 again.

Looking for a safe example of Peck's writing, I settled on this snippet, "So let's dish the dish, homos. You know and I know that Mary Pete is a gay teenager. He's a fifteen-year-old boy in a Chicago bus station wondering if it's a good idea to go home with a fifty-year-old man so that he'll finally understand what he is.

"He's been out for, what, all of four years, and if I understand the narrative, he married the first guy he dated. And we all know what happens when gay people don’t get a real adolescence because they spent theirs in the closet: they go through it after they come out. And because they're adults with their own incomes and no parents to rein them in they do it on steroids (often literally)."

I cannot top Ace's putdown, but I can put this let's-dish-homos column in political perspective. We all agree that this was over the line. New Republic removed it.

But at the same time the graphic nastiness is a reminder of the excesses of to gay liberals. They are not the two male roommates next door, which is BOOT-EDGE-EDGE's sales pitch. No Peck just reminded America that they also are spiteful gay priders in pink tutus, leather underwear and purple hair.

This is the type of political cannibalism that liberals indulge in from time to time. Drunkard Ted Kennedy's challenge to Jimmy Carter, a sitting president, in 1980 is the best example.

If the election were held today, the Democrat ticket would be Kamala Harris and the gay mayor. Michelle Obama's support of Harris, whom she views as a surrogate, clears the field for her topping the ticket.

Meanwhile, moneyed gay liberals are buying the veep seat for Alfred E. Neuman.

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