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VIDEO: One-time Pride Queen Karyme Lozano trades in her rainbow boa for a nice NOM button
December 26, 2010
We at P8TT are taking Christmas through New Year’s off. Golden Oldies you requested will run in the place of regular posts. Regularly scheduled programming will resume on January 3rd–Adam Bink
By Adam Bink
Here’s Karyme Lozano, Mexican telenovela star, in 2008:
That was at the San Francisco Gay Pride parade, where she was crowned Queen.
Here’s Karyme Lozano on tour with Vota Tus Valores:
I especially like the comparison of sexual orientation and the desire to go after one of the same sex to the temptation to go after “chocolate.”
The other thing about Lozano is that you can tell why they’re not letting her talk anymore. If you watch Lozano’s reaction to the news that her tour sponsor, NOM, spends millions to deny the freedom to marry to same-sex couples, and how that may conflict with her statement that she’s not trying to be judgmental, it seems she is, with respect, (a) fairly ignorant of what actually is going on with respect to who NOM is and what they do (b) concerned about alienating her fans and gay friends.
You watch her grimacing and her confused, murmured responses to Arisha’s points about that and it certainly comes across that Lozano doesn’t want to be seen as an “activist standing up boldly for traditional marriage” activist in the NOM mold. If they let her interact with us, she might actually end up saying something way off-message.
What do you think of her?
UPDATE BY EDEN: In the comments, Daniel Morales just reported:
Karyme Lozano just announced on twitter that she is leaving the tour right after Fresno… Was she fired? will she not finish the day’s campaign?
(Translation: Fresno is my last stop on the bus tour and then hone. Yeah! I will see my mom, my baby and my own bed!
@karymelozano Fresno es ml uTlma parada del bus tour, y. Ahl. Caslta! Yey! Voy a ver a ml maa a ml baby y Ml camlta!
Sidenote: she sent several tweets begging people to come see her in Fresno but nobody replied…
Filed under: NOM Exposed,Right-wing
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DaveP | December 26, 2010 at 5:05 am
Did anyone ever find out the real story about this? How and why she ended up on the tour after participating in a LGBT Pride Parade? Was she uninformed or misinformed about NOMs role in the bus tour? And what was the story about her sudden disappearance in the middle of the tour?
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Sagesse | December 26, 2010 at 5:26 am
The whole CA tour was a mystery. Say what you like about NOM, they have a certain discipline… if they announce a stop, they appear, even if the show of support is dismal. They make an effort to have like-minded local speakers.
The CA tour was completely opportunistic and disorganized. This woman was a local celebrity they recruited to their cause, even tho' she was completely ignorant of what the cause was. They scheduled so many stops in a day, they couldn't possibly 'stop' at all of them.
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Richard A. Jernigan | December 26, 2010 at 6:11 am
I still remember how confused Caryme looked when confronted with the truth about what NOM is really all about.
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Ronnie | December 26, 2010 at 7:29 am
Oh, this chica….I just don't know about her…face in palms….<3….Ronnie
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Ed Cortes | December 26, 2010 at 7:32 am
I was at the "stop" in Concord (where I said Hi to Sheryl), but the bus didn't even bother to slow down. They just blew by the park. Later, when returning home, I saw the bus stuck in a parking lot on Monument Blvd, and was able to meet Sheryl and the tour trackers.
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Rhie | December 26, 2010 at 7:32 am
Watching
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Bill | December 27, 2010 at 2:58 am
She's clearly a Rhodes Scholar.
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