THE FIGHT SOCAL’S LGBTQ MONTHLY MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2017

THEROSTOWREPORT
GREAT VICTORIES
AT THE BALLOT BOX
I was watching Jeff Sessions
testify before the House the
other day, and I couldn’t help
but picture Kate McKinnon’s
Saturday Night Live version of
Sessions at the same time. I
saw his hairless possum tail curling
up, its little tip pausing above
his elbow before drifting back
out of sight. He twinkled in his
insufferable manner, hedging his
answers like a guilty ten-year-old
with crumbs down the front of
his shirt. Not only was he refusing
to give a direct answer, but
he was deliberately meandering
in an effort to use up the time of
Democratic members.
Oh how I hate the whole
Trump cabal, the weaselly
self-dealing seventy-something
smug white men basking in
their mastery of the world. Do
I just imagine that they feel a
faint unease, a sense of something
rotting and failing deep
within? Do they ever wonder
if that something will collapse
one day, out of the blue, and
out of the blue everything they
have done and built and bought
will turn out to be worthless?
Worthless, useless, empty,
void of meaning, broken?
Don’t worry, my rant is
over. I just deleted the rest
of it, because I’m making
myself miserable focussing on
the negative rather than the
positive. And there is positive
news, my friends.
Last month, we saw great
victories at the ballot box where
at least 35 LGBT candidates
won their local races ranging
from the new transgender
Virginia Delegate, Danica
Roem, to the lesbian mayor of
Seattle, Jenny Durkan. In addition
to Roem, six other transgender
men and women won
elections, including incoming
Minneapolis City Council members
Philippe Cunningham
and Andrea Jenkins. Talk about
leading the way Minneapolis!
What’s in the water up there?
Pour me a glass.
WES
GOODMAN
But it wasn’t just our LGBT
cohort collecting votes. In general,
the experts saw the signs
of an impending Democratic
wave rolling in towards 2018
like a tropical storm gathering
strength in the mid Atlantic.
Please God, let it be so. By the
way, did you know that Kate
McKinnon is gay? It’s true.
And I just learned that
extra vote counting delivered
Oklahoma’s 37th senate district
to a Democratic lesbian named
Allison Ikley-Freeman. That’s
Tulsa! Hardly our bailiwick
under normal circumstances.
What’s next? A U.S. Senate
seat out of Alabama?
“I WANT TO
SEE A PUG”
True story. My dogs died a
>> BY ANN ROSTOW