“Outing Myself” or “We Now Interrupt This Broadcast”

posted at 2:17 am on February 25, 2010 by Sarjex

Hey guys,

I feel like I need to poke my head out from my drafting table and out myself a little bit.

Hi, I’m Sarjex and among many things about me, I’m a conservative, I’m female, I grew up in Utah, I now live in San Francisco (which drives me crazy but there’s more work for me here,) I like John Williams (Superman is my favorite soundtrack), Stephen Sondheim (Into the Woods) I love American history, I love drawing, I love cartoons…oh yeah, and I’m gay.

It’s been big fun reading the hilarious comments regarding the “Gay Air” revamp cartoon and was reading them out loud to TLG (The Liberal Girlfriend.) She good naturedly tolerates my wingnuttiness…I tolerate her never hanging up her coat.

I think gays DO have it great in the US. When I hear all the “social justice” queers talking about how hard it is to live in Texas or other places and the US is sooo oppressive I like to snort to them, “Try Iran!” I do not understand why so many gays gravitate so completely to the left when all through history it has been the left who has hung them, stoned them, rounded them up and gassed them except that for a long time the Right on this country made them feel so unwelcome.

The times, they are a changin.’

I knew I was a conservative before I knew I was gay. I come from a family of entrepreneurial rugged individuals and I was *never* one for groupthink. Socialism or anything akin to it always horrified me because I knew it empowered the group over the individual…and the individual could always be ME.

I’ve seen some scorn and some doubt from some regulars at Hot Air about whether or not gays CAN be conservative and if homosexuality is real and/or gays are a bunch of sex crazed sodomites with no business in proper society and that Thomas Jefferson really didn’t mean GAYS when he penned that all men are created equal and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were god given rights.

TLG has been dubious at times with my involvement in Hot Air (I’m a regular chatizen during the Ed Morrissey show) once accusing me of basically lying to my friends during the show. She told me they wouldn’t be nearly so accepting if everybody there knew I was gay. Some did, some didn’t, but the day I went off to City Hall to marry her, I made sure everybody knew it…and without exception, everybody wished me well and Ed played “I’m Getting Married in the Mornin’.” I saved the chat and made her read it.

I think there is some serious legitimate debate from both sides ahead over the issues of gay marriage, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and a host of other social issues…but for me, my issues are…and have always been… individual liberty, a restrained government in line with what the framers intended with the constitution, low taxes and national defense. I think I’m not “the only gay in the village” with those views.

So now that I’ve officially outed myself, I’m going to duck down behind my drafting table and get back to work. There’s an Andrew Breitbart cartoon that’s been floating around in the back of my head.

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