Occasioning a Brouhaha

You know we're all in trouble when the major newsweeklies have me on their press release list.... I'm still not on the America list though... Nor Commonweal....

Hint, hint.

But from one that does send feed, this week's TIME features a lengthy treatment of the next generation of LGBT America

In May, David Steward, a former president of TV Guide, and his partner Pierre Friedrichs, a caterer, hosted an uncomfortably crowded cocktail party at their Manhattan apartment. It was a typical gay fund raiser--there were lemony vodka drinks with mint sprigs; there were gift bags with Calvin Klein sunglasses; Friedrichs prepared little blackened-tuna with-mango-chutney hors d'oeuvres that were served by uniformed waiters. Billionaire philanthropist Edgar Bronfman Sr. was there; David Mixner, a gay activist and longtime friend of Bill Clinton's, was holding court with Jason Moore, director of the musical Avenue Q.

But the odd thing was that the gay (and gay-friendly) elite had gathered to raise money not for one of its established charities--the Human Rights Campaign, say, or the Democratic National Committee--but for an obscure organization that has quietly become one of the fastest-growing gay groups in the nation, the Point Foundation. Launched in 2001, Point gives lavish (often full-ride) scholarships to gay students. It is one of the few national groups conceived explicitly to help gay kids, and it is a leading example of how the gay movement is responding to the emergence this decade of hundreds of thousands of openly gay youths.

Wow. Now that's love.

Speaking of active Catholics, Alan Keyes' daughter is interviewed

Take Point scholar Maya Marcel-Keyes of Chicago, for instance. The 20-year-old daughter of conservative activist and former presidential candidate Alan Keyes, Marcel-Keyes has a girlfriend but has dated two boys; identifies herself as queer (not lesbian), pro-life and "anarchist"; and attends Mass whenever she can spare the time from her menagerie. (When Marcel-Keyes and I spoke recently, she and her girlfriend had a rabbit, a ferret, a cockatiel, two rats and two salamanders.)

And here's a line one would expect from many of our "cultic warrior" seminarians

"I love that Prada bag!" a 16-year-old boy at the Youth Day squealed several times

Was that "Youth Day" in Cologne? You never know....

There was a Love Parade in Sodom by the Sea last weekend, and I'm pissed that nobody told me. But we'll have Love Parade Part Deux at the crowning of the Son of Darth, because Rock is all about letting love rule. That, my friends, is the greatest good.

Bring it on.

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