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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-11-07 09:37 AM
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Anti-gay Maoist Fag-Hag Brian Camenker Disrupts Gay and Lesbian Youth Commission Meeting
Our favorite homophobe / shutterbug was at it again on Monday. It looked for a while like Brain Camenker of MassResistance had forgotten about the LGBT community and was focusing all of his energy on attacking Mitt Romney. Alas, he was in full force at the first meeting of the new independent commission on gay and lesbian youth.

According to the State House News service:

Moments after the meeting at state Department of Public Health headquarters began, a conservative activist began taking pictures of commission members. Several commission members immediately objected. Talking over one another, they said it was disruptive and wondered whether legal releases were needed.

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Brian Camenker argued, "If you don't want your picture taken, don't join a public body".

While the commission chairs agreed, members said later they plan to look into the legality of the picture-taking, since students serve as members, along with many adults who are on the commission.


While the commission chairs agreed, members said later they plan to look into the legality of the picture-taking, since students serve as members, along with many adults who are on the commission.

Brain Camenker loves taking photos of people he disagrees with. He then posts the photos on his website along with his own witty remarks.

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After the Monday night meeting of the new independent gay and lesbian youth commission, citing his push to abolish the governor's commission, Camenker told the News Service, "I'm the reason this whole group was formed."

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More:
http://takemassaction.blogspot.com/2007/02/brian-camenker-disrupts-gay-and-lesbian.html
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MsUnderstood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-11-07 11:31 AM
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1. why did you call him those names n your post?
I mean that term "FAG HAG", never really was the most appropriate already when applied to friends of gays and lesbians, and it appears even worse when applied to this person.

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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-11-07 05:52 PM
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2. It's meant to humiliate Brian, not to offend present company.
Edited on Sun Feb-11-07 05:53 PM by IanDB1
Brian says he used to have a lot of gay friends who he went to gay bars with all the time.

And he also learned to speak Chinese, just so he could study Mao's Little Red Book in its original language.

I just keep referencing those facts to lower Brian's street-cred among his anti-gay fellow travelers.

If the consensus of the group is that it's too offensive to use here in that context, then I'll stop.
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MsUnderstood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-12-07 09:55 AM
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3. so your using a word demeaning to homosexuals
so your using a word demeaning to homosexuals combined with a word that creates a phrase used to identify friends of gays in lesbians to demean an anti homosexual?

I've heard of taking back the word but that is not what I envisioned.

Hopefully this wont offend other ethnic groups when I say that your use of the word is like calling someone who talks against affirmative action (but claims friends in the african american community) a n**ger lover or someone who speaks against immigration but has mexican descent a whitewashed wetback. . .

I don't personally think its true that fag is only a bad word when used be those against homosexuals.

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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-12-07 12:04 PM
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4. Okay, you've now got me 85% convinced. You make some very good points there.
Find me one more person here who seconds that, and I'll agree to stop using that name for Brian.

Meanwhile, let's also brainstorm about new and exciting names we can call Brian.
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MsUnderstood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 10:36 AM
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5. darn no support. . .
where are all the snicker haters when you need em? :)
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 11:52 AM
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6. FWIW, you're still right and I was wrong and I'm sorry.
On the other hand, imagine that if I kept it up:

The year is 2057.

Brian Camenker walks up to a podium to speak before the group, "Citizens against Gay and Cyborg Marriage."

Some people in the audience tap the rims of their iGlasses, triggering the computers in their iWatches to access Google's Facial Recognition Search. Within a momement, the heads-up displays on their iGlasses display:

"Brian Camenker: Maoist anti-gay Fag-hag."


In any case, I'll find new names for Brian that don't make High-Kinsey-Score-Americans uncomfortable.

I'm a big believer that minority groups have the right to define for themselves what they find insulting. It really wasn't my place to question you to begin with.
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Bear down under Donating Member (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-16-07 10:04 AM
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7. Late in the day
but I agree. This is a most inappropriate use of "fag hag", comparable to describing some horrid racist as a "nigger-lover".

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Bear down under Donating Member (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-16-07 10:05 AM
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8. Late in the day
but I agree. I know irony is intended, but this is a most inappropriate use of "fag hag".

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bluedawg12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-17-07 11:24 AM
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9. 2 things
first. thank you for bringing to light this pest.

second, the term "fag-hag" for this guy as used in this post is inappropriate.

if you don't understand why at least understand that some in your own community are offended.

You might consider calling him a bigot?

Maybe you meant: Closet case?
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