Gay and Republican: Caught between two stereotypes

http://www.mlive.com/us-politics/index.ssf/2008/11/gay_and_republican_caught_betw.html
11/1/2008

Drew Harper sits on the fence between what is stereotypical and what is not. He is a Tisch freshman who styles his hair in a faux-hawk. He is also a gay Republican.

He supports the party's principles and is distrustful of Big Government. He also believes in gay marriage, though he thinks the issue should be left to individual states. "I believe in states' rights," he says. Were his home state of Washington to vote on gay marriage, he says it would pass easily. He admits that this wouldn't help lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens who live in South Dakota. But it's a conservative ideology he shares: localized government and personal liberty.

I go to NYU.  It's true, in a year here I've only met two republicans.  One of them was my roommate last year, and one of them I met at work this year.  Not only are we in a ridiculously liberal city, but this is a ridiculously liberal university.  It makes the College Republicans here all the more vocal, though, because they know they're in the vast minority.  And Tisch?  Tisch is the School of Arts here.  Must be even rarer, I think most of the republicans here go to the school of business.

I don't think I'll ever understand how a gay person can, with full conscience, actually agree with republican ideologies.  Fiscal, maybe, but social ones, too?  I know it happens, I just don't get it.