Diane Feinstein Hates Gays

I've always said that Diane Feinstein was a total bitch. Who can forget her grab for power after the assassinations of Harvey Milk and George Moscone? Even though Harvey Milk had handpicked his successor, a biker dyke named Anne Kronenberg who had worked on all four of his campaigns, Feinstein worried about Kronenberg's image. She was one of those "disreputable" gays (i.e. drag queens and leather people). Feinstein never did care much about the "gay vote" as a San Francisco city commissioner. But as soon as she started to campaign for national political office, she suddenly gave a shit about have queers vote for her. (Source: The Mayor of Castro Street, by Randy Shilts)

Feinstein's historical track record held out this week as she voted to support Bush's nomination of Leslie Southwick to the Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals. Southwick is perhaps most notorious for a decision he made while on the Mississippi Court of Appeals to deny a womyn custody of her biological child because the mother was bisexual. Southwick's nomination has been opposed by numerous civil rights groups, and Feinstein's vote helped tip the Senate Judiciary's scales in Southwick's favor. The committee voted 10-9 to send the nomination on for a full Senate vote. (Source)

Feinstein deserves an F for her position on LGBTQ issues. I also think her ovaries need to be confiscated since she failed to ask Roberts or Alito their positions on abortion during their Senate confirmation hearings. She thought the interstate regulation of handgun sales was somehow more important.