Gillard's homophobia

Labor has every right to take the gay community for granted - the opinion leaders are uncritically fawning.

Yesterday when Mr Pyne rose to interrupt Ms Gillard with a point of order during Question Time, the Education Minister laid into him. This is Gillard in Question Time on 23 February:

"I must admit that I did want to see the member for Warringah (Tony Abbott) making a comeback,'' she said.

"In a choice between macho and mincing, I would have gone for macho myself.''


Ms Gillard continued: "And obviously the Leader of the Opposition (Malcolm Turnbull), faced with the choice of a doberman or poodle, has gone for the poodle.

"Presumably he prefers Abba to Cold Chisel, because that is the kind of thing we see on display.''

The clear intimation from Gillard is that Pyne is gay and what better way to make that point by subtly reinforcing some negative gay stereotypes.

Gay men don't walk, they mince.

You can't be gay and macho.

Gay men, they love poodles because in the animal kingdom, they have the same status as gay men - they are weak, they get all dressed up and they don't really deserve to be taken seriously.

And if you like ABBA, you are most probably a mincing homosexual.

If you are Julia Gillard, and you are caught out - brush it off and claim it was spur of the moment stuff. And by the way, homophobia is 'humorous':

"In question time you've got to have your moments of humour and I think that that was a moment of humour,'' Ms Gillard said today.

Disgraceful.