A month ago I wrote about Matt Foreman's suggestions about how we can conduct the next gay rights campaign and avoid losing. Foreman said that straights who are not Fundies still may vote against us because of the "ick factor" -- they get squeamish when faced with the reality of our loves. The solution is to portray our rights in terms other than through relationships. He backed up his claims through focus groups that viewed gay-friendly ads.
A rebuttal now comes from Diane Silver in a column called Political IQ. Yes, the ick factor is real. But we will never gain our rights by hiding from it. We must confront it. Show our loves in all their diversity, in spite of the ick factor. This is the only way potential allies will get beyond ick and vote for us. Alas, we have centuries of ick to work through.
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