It's hard out there for gay-themed political cartoons...

I started drawing biweekly cartoons for Bay Windows (Boston's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender newspaper) back in 2003. Some weeks were easy--there was always Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Rick Santorum, sodomy laws, gay Republicans and hate crimes. But sometimes it was a little more difficult to find two gay-related stories on the national radar each month, and I'd end up doing pieces on local college gay/straight alliances.

Now I can barely cover a tiny fraction of Big Gay News Stories with my biweekly cartoons. Big LGBT News is just Big News period, now. I haven't even had a chance to draw about the discriminatory firing of a transgender city manager in Florida or a transgender college dean in Michigan. I haven't had a chance to draw about Ann Coulter's F-word flinging. I don't think I'll be able to do anything about Gen. Peter Pace's "homosexuality is immoral" crap.

Anyway, just in case I don't get to draw about the Coulter business, here's my two cents: she's the same psycho crazy racist deranged homophobic hate-monger extremist she ever was, but it's somewhat nice that fewer mainstream outlets can continue to pretend she's a reasonable conservative commentator whose views deserve an airing.

BUT it astonishes me that grade-A homophobes like Mitt Romney are (who introduced her with great pleasure at CPAC right before she started throwing around the word "faggot") would bother trying to distance themselves from her. The man's entire presidential campaign is based on rallying gay-haters. His campaign slogan might as well be "I hate gay people and want to restrict their rights and make discrimination against them legal way more than these other guys". So what's the difference between him and Coulter?

Or George W. "amend the constitution to protect traditional marriage" Bush and Coulter, for that matter? Maybe Bush stays away from Coulter's vocabulary, but he's the one who puts into practice what she preaches...