Front page Archive Why Arlen? Arlen is the TV home of "King of the Hill." It's a small conservative town that is threatened with ruination on a regular basis by twig boys, enviro wackos, diversity nuts, "PC" police and other ivory tower liberals. I like to think of Arlen as a metaphor for this here great nation of ours.

Tuesday, June 07, 2005 Posted 5:53 PM by Hank "NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH IT?" First Hoover, then Lincoln, now "Malcolm X, gay icon": Marking what would have been Malcolm's 80th birthday, Peter Tatchell writes in London's Guardian that "Now it is time to blow the whistle. Young black lesbians and gays need role models." Tatchell, who calls Malcolm a personal "inspiration," cites the 1991 book "Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America," which quotes a friend who claims Malcolm experimented sexually with men from childhood until he joined the Nation of Islam. Biographer Bruce Perry contended that Malcolm had sex with men for money in his early 20s and struck up a friendship with a transvestite named Willie Mae. The article (fourth item) goes on to note that filmmaker Spike Lee has called this allegation "blatant character assassination." That's an interesting description, implying that Mr. Lee thinks being gay is, to put it mildly, a character flaw. It will be interesting to see whether other leaders of the civil rights community consider this allegation an attack on Mr. X. If they do, it would seem to imply that they also think homosexuality is wrong. Home