Dear Editor:

Well, I guess it couldn’t last. The writer of Billy Bob obviously has no sense of history and is selfishly focused on the marriage issue … or perhaps can’t see the forest for the trees and doesn’t realize he is already living in a free country that allows him to spout such venom, and obviously the writer is an immature princess as no self respecting Queen would write such tabloid nonsense.

However I am surprised that your publication did print that wonderful editorial in that last issue to which I also responded. I think it is proper and respectful to acknowledge and understand that because one is Gay (now I have to get Politically Correct, barf) GLBT … that one is automatically a supporter of all the self centered gay political rhetoric that is spewed, much as one does after a night out with too much indulgence of their favorite beverage.

I for one am not a supporter of everything that vomits out of the mouth of so called “Gay leaders”. Most of them do not speak for me or other upright Gay Men and Women. Most of what I see and hear is simple egotistic rhetoric designed to inflame and confuse the real issue of living life of a Gay Man or Woman, arrrgh, I’m sorry, I mean of every GLBT person.

Take for instance the Gay Center, oh wait, it’s the center now isn’t it, it’s been that way for years now. It has completely forgotten its roots and how and why it was founded. Now we have to include everything that is not “straight” and lump it under the heading of GLBT. Well, this is a slap in the face of the Men and Women, Gay men and Women that were involved in the incident at Stonewall those many years ago.

Since that time, we have made great advances and some losses, but we are still better off than we were then.

I will get off my soapbox after this statement: It is better to look at the whole of the nation as opposed to the wants of a few. If this nation is not kept secure, if this nation has no means of defense, if this nation allows everyone under the sun to cross borders without being checked, that includes Americans, then Gay Marriage will never happen because the freedom we do have will be taken away by those same people that felled the World Trade Towers, crashed into the Pentagon and crashed into the Pennsylvania field.

Without National Security, what we as gay people want will never happen. We need to continue a slow and steady march to the sea, as it were. To use guerilla tactics, such as the ones used in San Francisco and other cities and counties to force Gay Marriage, is only going to accomplish one thing, and one thing only, it will frighten middle America and produce knee-jerk reactions, such as amendments to the Constitution, both state and Federal.

Remember the Tortoise and the Hare? Slow and Steady wins the race.

I know you probably will not put this in the “Letters to the Editor” either because my writing tends to ramble or because it might be construed as inflammatory. Still, as the writer of Billy Bob, and the writer of “The 2000 elections are behind us get over it”, I had to have my say and it will not be the last time.

Ron Mason

Dear Editor:

I had the pleasure of serving Frank Sabatini this week for dinner. I understand he is your restaurant reviewer for your publication. As I [am a] gay man, and a native San Diegan who reads your publication regularly I was excited and pleased to have a chance to be reviewed by a paper many of my peers and business associates read often. Since we are not located in Hillcrest I feel we are looked over by the gay community as a whole, and I hope by this review and future advertisements in your paper this will change … as we are an excellent property, not only our restaurant, but our lovely hotel also … thanks again for this opportunity.

Tim Riley

Lead Server