{"id":2026,"date":"2017-02-15T12:22:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T18:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2017-12-08T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T23:46:08","slug":"gay-journalist-came-closet-second-time-now-liberal-friends-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/02\/gay-journalist-came-closet-second-time-now-liberal-friends-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Journalist Came Out of the Closet for the Second Time, and Now His Liberal Friends Hate Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Watching Season 6 of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RuPaul\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@RuPaul<\/a> \u2018s Drag Race. My niece just asked to ru-wind the lip sync. They learn so fast! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8f1ifqei3X\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/8f1ifqei3X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chadwick_Moore\/status\/812053380952653824\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">December 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last September, a gay journalist wrote a piece covering Milo Yiannopoulos for <em>Out<\/em> magazine that was very well-rounded and not overly critical of the outspoken conservative. \u00a0Sounds like this should not be noteworthy at all. \u00a0However, for that unbiased piece, the writer was immediately kicked out of his\u00a0liberal, Manhattan bubble.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the months that followed, Chadwick Moore experienced hate on a new level. Not by his opponents, but by his friends. Because he did a \u201cneutral piece\u201d on Yiannopoulos, Moore said he was inundated with death threats, hatred, and slander from every angle by so-called tolerant progressives.<\/p>\n<p>He described the type of hate mail he was receiving in <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/02\/11\/im-a-gay-new-yorker-and-im-coming-out-as-a-conservative\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The New York Post<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most disconcertingly, it wasn\u2019t just strangers voicing radical discontent. Personal friends of mine \u2014 men in their 60s who had been my longtime mentors \u2014 were coming at me. They wrote on Facebook that the story was \u201cirresponsible\u201d and \u201cdangerous.\u201d A dozen or so people unfriended me. A petition was circulated online, condemning the magazine and my article. All I had done was write a balanced story on an outspoken Trump supporter for a liberal, gay magazine, and now I was being attacked. I felt alienated and frightened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even when he made visits to his favorite bar, the people who used to greet him with a kiss now turned the other way and shot dirty looks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrostiness spread far beyond the bar, too,\u201d he wrote. \u201cMy best friend, with whom I typically hung out multiple times per week, was suddenly perpetually unavailable. Finally, on Christmas Eve, he sent me a long text, calling me a monster, asking where my heart and soul went, and saying that all our other friends are laughing at me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when Moore made a sudden discovery: \u201cI realized that, for the first time in my adult life, I was outside of the liberal bubble and looking in. What I saw was ugly, lock step, incurious and mean-spirited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was at that point that Moore began to see that liberalism isn\u2019t the haven of tolerance it\u2019s touted to be and when he finally got tired of being labeled a \u201ctraitor,\u201d he realized\u00a0he had to come out of another closet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I was growing up in the Midwest, coming out to my family at the age of 15 was one of the hardest things I\u2019ve ever done. Today, it\u2019s just as nerve-wracking coming out to all of New York as a conservative. But, like when I was 15, it\u2019s also weirdly exciting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moore says he made the switch after talking with Trump supporters and finding them able to engage in \u201ccivil discussions\u201d even if he didn\u2019t agree with everything the president is doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI finally had to admit to myself that I am closer to the right than where the left is today. And, yes, just three months ago, I voted for Hillary Clinton,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n<p>Though coming out as a gay conservative has cost him many friendships, Moore says his relationship with his father has vastly improved:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He\u2019s a Republican and a farmer in Iowa, and for years we just didn\u2019t have very much to talk about. But after Trump\u2019s inauguration, we chatted for two hours, bonding over the ridiculousness of lefties. But we also got serious: He told me that he is proud of my writing, and I opened up about my personal life in a way I never had before to him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And guess what Moore thinks of Ann Coulter, now? A year ago, he loathed her, but today, he\u2019s \u201ccome around\u201d and now finds her \u201csmart and funny and not a totally hateful, self-righteous bigot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moore found out the hard way that liberals aren\u2019t as open minded as they claim. They will accept any identity you can come up with as long as it isn\u2019t conservative:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I hope to find out that it pays to keep an open mind. And I hope that New Yorkers can be as open-minded and accepting of my new status as a conservative man as they\u2019ve been about my sexual orientation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Click CONTINUE to see Moore on Fox News with Tucker Carlson:<\/strong><br>\n<!--nextpage--><br>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FhtRf3fxrsI\" width=\"743\" height=\"418\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Left will accept your sexual orientation, but not this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":2035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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