An interested read in the NYT about how glitter-bombing has become all the rage in gay politics.
The Gingrich onslaught, on May 17, was the opening salvo. On June 16 in San Francisco, Nancy Mancias and Chelsea Byers of the group Codepink: Women for Peace poured glitter and bunches of long, thin, curly strips of pink paper — the kind found packed in gift baskets — on Tim Pawlenty, then a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. Two days later, a lawyer, Rachel E. B. Lang, sprinkled Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, also a candidate. Then, on July 21, a contingent that included Nick Espinosa, who glittered the Gingriches, spread glitter at the headquarters of Bachmann & Associates, a Christian-oriented counseling practice run by Mrs. Bachmann’s husband, Marcus. The group was responding to stories that the clinic engaged in “reparative therapy,” which aims to persuade gays to become heterosexual.
“You can’t pray away the gay; baby, I was born this way!” they chanted as they tossed their sparkle of fairy dust. (Mr. Espinosa and his cohort returned to the clinic on Thursday; there they glittered a Marcus Bachmann impersonator who then joined in a celebratory dance.)
