{"id":17702,"date":"2012-11-10T11:51:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T16:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17702"},"modified":"2012-11-10T11:51:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T16:51:38","slug":"were-here-were-queer-and-that-shouldnt-really-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/10\/were-here-were-queer-and-that-shouldnt-really-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We\u2019re here, we\u2019re queer, and that shouldn\u2019t really matter&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A profile of Conservative activist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xtra.ca\/public\/National\/Blue_boys-12764.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Eappen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You\u2019re not really gay.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a phrase that Roy Eappen hears quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a gay Tory. That\u2019s apparently not acceptable,\u201d he says between giggles. \u201cI find it kind of funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eappen is a bit of a curious case. Indian by birth, he now lives in Quebec, where he splits his time between advocating for a new centre-right consensus in the province, stumping for the federal Conservatives and hobnobbing with Republican heavyweights down south. A quick Google search will turn up pictures of Eappen alongside George W Bush, Newt Gingrich and Paul Ryan.<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s becoming increasingly known for his parties.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Eappen was in Tampa for the Republican National Convention, where he helped organize for conservative gay group GOProud. Before that, he started the Fabulous Blue Tent party for the Conservative convention here in Canada. \u201cIt\u2019s a funny little secret that Tory parties all over the world are full of gay people,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Eappen\u2019s recent 800-person party in Ottawa was met with accolades and positive reviews from partygoers and pundits. It attracted Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and MP Rick Dykstra, as well as staffers from all parties. Even Laureen Harper was supposed to come, but she couldn\u2019t make it.<\/p>\n<p>He laughs again. \u201cShe\u2019s an Evangelical Christian, and she\u2019s cool with us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A profile of Conservative activist Roy Eappen: You\u2019re not really gay. That\u2019s a phrase that Roy Eappen hears quite a bit. \u201cI\u2019m a gay Tory. That\u2019s apparently not acceptable,\u201d he says between giggles. \u201cI find it kind of funny.\u201d Eappen is a bit of a curious case. Indian by birth, he now lives in Quebec, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,53],"tags":[431,196],"class_list":["post-17702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-liberty","category-politics","tag-conservatism","tag-lgbt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Bw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17703,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17702\/revisions\/17703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}