Just saw "A Prairie Home Companion" W/ Garrison Keillor & 1 protestor

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Sat Mar-17-07 11:57 PM
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Just saw "A Prairie Home Companion" W/ Garrison Keillor & 1 protestor

This was at NYC's Town Hall theater. It was great to see the people behind the voices. In Garrison's opening monolog he was picking on poor B* A big cheer and applause went up when Garrison said B* had something like 320 days left. in office.(sad but I believe it's much more, too many more). I was really impressed with Garrison when he did what seemed like a straight 20 minuets of The News from Lake Wobegon without a script or any notes.

In regards to Keillor's post at Salon http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/03/14/keillor
and discussed here http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=416535 I arrived a bit late and didn't spend much time waiting outside. All I saw was one lone protestor wearing a sandwich board decrying Garrison and handing out copies of what appeared to be the Dan Savage article http://www.thestranger.com/blog/2007/03/fuck_garrison_keillor The protestor didn't seem to get much attention by the PHC fans,

This is the first I've heard of this Dan Savage and I found meegbear's post "" Is that douchebag Dan Savage still around?""
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=416535#416698 enlightening

Then I found this from Garrison Keillor , I fully expect that protestor to be the last against Garrison Keillor on this issue.

http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/

A NOTE FROM THE HOST

Ordinarily I don't like to use this space to talk about my newspaper column but the most recent column aroused such angry reactions that I thought I should reply. The column was done tongue-in-cheek, always a risky thing, and was meant to be funny, another risky thing these days, and two sentences about gay people lit a fire in some readers and sent them racing to their computers to fire off some jagged e-mails. That's okay. But the underlying cause of the trouble is rather simple.

I live in a small world — the world of entertainment, musicians, writers — in which gayness is as common as having brown eyes. Ever since I was in college, gay men and women have been friends, associates, heroes, adversaries, and in that small world, we talk openly and we kid each other and think nothing of it. But in the larger world, gayness is controversial. In almost every state, gay marriage would be voted down if put on a ballot. Gay men and women have been targeted by the right wing as a hot-button issue. And so gay people out in the larger world feel beseiged to some degree. In the small world I live in, they feel accepted and cherished as individuals, but in the larger world they may feel like Types. My column spoke as we would speak in my small world and it was read by people in the larger world and thus the misunderstanding. And for that, I am sorry. Gay people who set out to be parents can be just as good parents as anybody else, and they know that, and so do I.