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DON’T TELL MY 8 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER I’M DOING THIS


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Hello folks,

This is my first post going undercover as a conservative opinion writer.  My 8 year old daughter CAN NOT FIND OUT about my secret life as a conservative.  Folks call it “splitting” – I call it, my own personal nightmare. I’m currently hiding in the guest room while she is doing “handstands to undo-whiteness” in the kitchen.  It bears repeating – DO NOT TELL HER ABOUT THIS!

Usually when I’m checking Twitter, she’s there, watching my every move. I feel compelled to write about her latest woke profundities to share with the rest of the world for fear she will have me cancelled or WORSE. 

For example, today she said, “AOC didn’t need to be in the building to have FELT what it was like to be raped by white supremacists, we all felt it that day.”  I had no choice but to post it in earnest!!  Anyway, I look forward to giving my thoughts on all things political and cultural from up here in the guest room (under the bed) with regular updates on the state of my 8 year old (who totally exists). 

 

First Time Blogger, Long Time Fan: Chad Felix Greene


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Hello everyone,

My name is Chad Felix Greene and you might known me from my Twitter: Chadfelixg. I am a conservative writer and I regularly contribute to The Federalist and The Post Millennial. I have published several books both political and non-political, and written and illustrated a few Jewish children’s titles. My most recent book, published in September of  this year, Without Context: Evaluating the Anti-LGBT Claims Against the Trump Administration, focused on reviewing and debunking LGBT media and mainstream media lies and manipulated narratives surrounding LGBT issues from 2016 to 2020.

I have been active in politics since around 2012, mostly on Twitter, and began writing in 2013. The internet phenomenon GayPatriot was my first exposure to gay conservative thinking and I was a loyal GayPatriot blog reader for a long time. GayPatriot was one of the first to promote my work and ideas and Bruce has been a longtime friend and mentor and I am honored to contribute my thoughts and perspectives on the relaunch of this great website and important historical archive of rightwing politics!

 

Introducing Jay Collinwood


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Admiral Stockdale (google him, Zennials!) famously asked, “Who am I? Why am I here?” They’re good questions.

So who am I? What kind of blogging will I be doing? I’ve been around politics all my life. In my BabyGay™ days I was an activist and politico in Washington, D.C. working on Capitol Hill and for gay rights groups. Although my views have always been pro-liberty, pro-markets, and anti-communist it was easy to fall in line with DC groupthink, if only to get the free booze at cocktail parties. I hope to give the reader some perspectives that smash the accepted narratives that we’re bombarded with daily. No idea is too sacred to question vigorously, and disagreement will always be welcome.

I have a background in the western classics, a love of history, three cats, and a brilliant engineer husband of more than 12 years. These themes will probably show up in my writing, and you’ll hear a lot about history and the frame of reference it can bring to our modern (mis)fortunes. I can’t wait to get started! Thank you, Gay Patriot for this wonderful opportunity!

Happy to be a part of the Relaunch of GayPatriot


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Good morning all, Chris Barron here, and my what a strange road it has been for me and this website. If someone would have told 2004 Chris Barron that he would be contributing to this site, I am pretty sure that guy would have laughed in your face.

For those of you who don’t know me, I am a PR and communications specialist who has worked in the conservative movement for almost 20 years (gulp, I’m old).

I once served as Political Director for Log Cabin Republicans and then co-founded (along with Bruce and another person who will go unnamed) GOProud – the conservative alternative to LCR.

I was an early Trump supporter (2011 early to be exact), who soured on Trump after he didn’t run in 2012, supported Rand Paul in 2016 and then came home to Trumpland after Rand dropped out.

I am an unapologetic America Firster. I think the Bush-Romney years were a disaster for the party and the country.

I look forward to contributing in the weeks and months ahead.

-Chris

Travels With Hercules


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One of my favorite authors from my English classes in high school was John Steinbeck.  I’ve always gravitated toward ‘historical fiction’ and his observations on society were very different than my experiences growing up.

Steinbeck’s non-fictional story, “Travels with Charley: In Search of America,” was my favorite of his books though.   He travelled across the country he loved with his French poodle.  After reading the book as a teenager, I immediately wanted to journey across the country with my future dog.

For better or worse — thanks to COVID — I had the chance to drive across a quarter of the country the last two weeks with our newest Patriot Pooch, Hercules.   Herc is a mix of beagle, pitbull, and golden retriever.   We adopted him in July 2020 from a home that wasn’t a good fit for him; he had been abused by the kids in the house.   He’s had some emotional issues since joining our home which we are still working through.   But it turns out, he was a wonderful road companion.

I’m going to write another post or two about the trip.   It turns out I drove nearly the same route in March of 2020 — “two weeks” after the COVID lockdowns began.  So I’ve seen a lot of how America is doing — at least in the Southeast.   And it isn’t good.

For now, here is Herc.   He’s a good boy.

Happy Thursday


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I apologize for not posting since Monday.   I’ve been on a road trip the last two weeks to and from Dallas, TX.   I also drove up to visit Ginger Bitch in Oklahoma City last weekend.

In any case, I wanted to let everyone know that we are still working on some technical upgrades for the site.   We have been on WordPress and hosted by GoDaddy since 2005 (!!) and the site has sort of been band-aided together since.

My trusty Webmaster Jay is working diligently to migrate to a new server and do some cleanup.

That said, comments are being moderated and I’m trying to get them to post immediately.

And, I also hope the new GayPatriot contributors will chime in soon.

More later today!

The Relaunch of GayPatriot


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Good morning.

I’m thrilled to announce that the blog formerly known as “GayPatriot”… is back!

If you aren’t familiar with this site, let me give you a brief history of how GayPatriot began.

In the summer and fall of 2004, two prominent left-wing gay activists were “outing” gay staffers who worked for Republican Members of Congress.   These individuals were not public figures, they were public servants.   Many were young and this outing crusade terrified these staffers; they had not told their families or their employers about their sexual orientation.

It was no one’s business except theirs when they wanted to “come out” but the left-wing gay activists decided to terrorize these young people.

So I started the GayPatriot blog to shine the light on this effort and provide a counter-argument to the outing crusade.

The blog began on Blogspot (you follow old people remember Blogspot, right?)… and so some of the original postings are lost.

The GayPatriot blog’s original mission morphed into a platform for gay conservative issues and served as a counterbalance to Andrew Sullivan (who went off the deep end) in the mid-2000s.   Thanks to Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit and the folks at PajamasMedia (now PJ Media), GayPatriot became a go-to mainstream conservative opinion blog.

My original co-blogger Dan (aka GayPatriotWest) joined me early on and provided a fantastic different perspective on news and culture that added more depth to the site than I could have hoped.   Over the years, we have had a variety of other contributors and many thanks to “VtheK” who held down the fort for many years as I drifted away from blogging.

But now we are back.   Why?   Because today’s “cancel culture” reminds me a lot of my original mission to counter the “outing” witchhunt from the Gay Left.   It also seems appropriate to relaunch as the Biden/Harris Administration gets going so this site can revel in the media’s hypocrisy — another theme of the original GayPatriot site.

I’ve invited new contributors to blog with me and they will introduce themselves over the next couple of days.

Please feel free to comment and be an active member of our community.   We accept all inputs and I will have a very light touch on moderating comments — unless you are an asshole.

And as always remember:  Don’t vote with your body parts…. it’s gross.