As a gay San
Franciscan, I really do have a great fondness for your
magazine, and have been an avid reader for many, many years.
I must take extreme exception, however, to The
Advocate's misguided spotlight on Angela Davis as
a "gay icon" ("Datebook" - Oct. 23). I choose not to
look up to, nor to sympathize with, terrorists and
murderers, two adjectives which more aptly describe Ms.
Davis than those your magazine uses ("gay icon" and
"crusader"). I literally choked when I read this, and
the first thing that came to mind was the recent
tendency of the press in this country to print pure
revisionist nonsense such as this, and passing it off as
"history." Don't you folks have fact-checkers or someone to
vet this stuff?
My suggestion:
Google "Angela Davis." It won't take long to get the
real story on this miserable excuse for a human being.
"Professor"? Check out where she's teaching, and WHAT she's
teaching. "Crusader"? Sure, if you like your
standard-bearers of truth and fairness sporting
illegal firearms and assisting in the unbelievably
brutal, senseless kidnapping and murder of a Federal judge.
Jeffrey Dahmer
was also a gay murderer, can I expect to see this glowing
example of homosexual wholesomeness on your next cover,
touted as an "ICON" for God's sake? I am quite simply
appalled by this glaring lapse in judgment by your
staff/writers, and certainly can no longer accept your
magazine as a legitimate publication. Count me out...and
cancel my subscription while you're at it. I have MUCH
better things to do.