OK, I admit it, I’m sick and tired of the other major cities in Texas getting all the fun gay stories this week. First there was the big hubbub over Austin Pride, and now a Houston city councilwoman has been brought to tears after she was accused of hating gay people. How great is that?!
Actually, despite the headline from Fox 26, I didn’t really see any tears in the video. And Fox’s story is wrong too: Councilwoman Wanda Adams didn’t vote against funding a facility that provides housing for people with HIV/AIDS. She instead chose to leave chambers so she didn’t have to vote, which to me is actually worse. (Maybe Adams was just afraid that if she stayed, gay Councilwoman Sue Lovell would tell her to shut it.)
According to the Houston GLBT Political Caucus, Adams represents both the Sunnyvale area, which has the highest concentration of HIV in Houston, and Montrose, the city’s gayborhood. Adams also used to employ Kris Banks, who’s now the president of GLBT Political Caucus.
Like I said, it’s good stuff.
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I honestly don’t think that Wanda Adams hates gay people, or people with HIV/AIDS. I think she is a coward who chose to deprive her constituents of representation rather than go on the record as voting for something that was opposed by a very powerful and notoriously vengeful fellow council member.
Maybe she had to leave because she had to pee…
I don’t really have a bone to pick with Adams. But, what is funny is that the clip ends with the most unflattering pose of the entire segment. Surely the editors could have let it run a second longer.
I hope everything in Houston works out, OK.