School Board Member Gains Support
Los Angeles school board member Jeff Horton compared his homosexual life to that of a minority. This is an unfair comparison because he has not encountered racism. As a homosexual or heterosexual African-American, one not only learns about oppression and discrimination, one lives it.
Horton contends that he did not choose to be gay. Yet, at the age of 43, only after a time in which he conveniently “tested the waters” and “learned” about bigotry, did he publicly declare his sexual persuasion. Prior to his coming out he was reared in a normal middle-class family, was a right-wing Republican activist and achieved a college education at Yale.
Anglo homosexuals do not share the plight of ethnic minorities in the United States.
BRIDGETT LOUISE
Gardena
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