We are not worthy
Have happily discovered another out Canadian journalist. In a Dec. 30 column, Steve Bergeron, at the French-language daily La Tribune de Sherbrooke, wrote: "J'ai beau etre gai, je reste un gars" -- "I'm gay, but I'm still a man," a prelude to criticizing a woman claiming to be a feminist who said the sky-high school drop-out rate for boys is because the so-much-better girls are upping the bar and depressing their XY counterparts. The boys, she said, aren't interested in the hard work it would take to get better grades. Bergeron noted -- dryly -- that he worked hard in school for himself, not because of girls.
Other out mainstream reporters in Canada? Most famous is the feature writer, political loudmouth and prostitute, Gerald Hannon. At his best, he's a lovely writer, a holder of interesting viewpoints that alternate with the severely noxious, and as a prostitute -- alas, I cannot review his performance. Gerald was banned at one point from teaching journalism at Toronto's Ryerson University when his politics and extracurricular bedside activities were
publicized in the mainstream media.
Other out mainstream reporters in Canada? Gerald is so far out that I -- and perhaps the rest of us homo journalists? -- sometimes feel closeted no matter how loud we're yelling. So... never mind....