A California city’s vice mayor is facing calls to resign after writing a stunningly anti-gay post on his website that calls gay men “faries” and “tinker bells,” and suggests they don’t have jobs or families. The post features an LGBT Pride flag with the “no” symbol on top of it.
“Now hundreds of millions of the rest of us can celebrate our month, peaking on July 4th, as healthy, heterosexual, fairly monogamous, keep our kinky stuff to ourselves, Americans,” Ted Hickman wrote June 28. “We do it with our parades in every state and county in this country with families celebrating together.”
“We honor our country and our veterans who have made all of this possible (including for the tinker bells),” he wrote, referring to gay men, as CBS Sacramento reports (video below), “and we can do it with actual real pride, not some put on show just to help our inferior complex ‘show we are different’ type of crap.”
Hickman insists straight people “ARE different from them…We work, have families, (and babies we make) enjoy and love the company (and marriage) of the opposite sex and don’t flaunt our differences dressing up like faries and prancing by the thousands in a parade in nearby San Francisco to be televised all over the world,” he lamented.
The Dixon, California vice mayor is now defending himself by claiming his post on his website was personal and “had nothing to do with my elected position,” which is not only not an acceptable defense, but false.
“If you remember last week I proclaimed the Month of July as SPAM …(Straight Pride American Month)…(as Vice Mayor don’t know if I can, but what the heck),” Hickman wrote.
There are calls for him ouster and a protest will bee held Thursday, after the July 4 holiday.
Watch CBS Sacramento’s report:
Image: City of Dixon, California