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Update on GayBear BFF being Fired-For-Being-Gay in LA County!

An update of Ukulady's Gay BFF who was fired for being Gay and Echo Park Snacks!

Dear Blob,

As you may remember, Gay Bear BFF, Mitch and I enjoy meeting at Echo Park Taco-eries for snacks and meeping.  We loved the sadly-now-gone, Nuvia's plumpy Pupusas, nestled between, shed-a-tear-for-it's-absence, Echo Curio and the amazing-artisan-butterRiffic-GrilledCheese of Lot 1.

Occasionally we frequent Huaracha Azteca 2, purchasing Mexican cokes from the nearby mini-mart and lament the 3 year closure of Echo Park Lake between tasty tacos.  I'm partial Huaracha Azteca 2's quesadillas and their squeezy bottles of salsa; Mitch will eat anything. 

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We met recently for citrus-ice tea at Stories Bookstore, Echo Park being, not only a convenient mid-point between Mar Vista & Pomona, but also our old stomping grounds.  We marveled at the Hipster Explosion and discussed his upcoming lawsuit with the Covina school district, who, according to me and him and all his pro-bono lawyers, fired him for being gay.

Finally Mitch-Fired-For-Being-Gay, has given me the thumbs up to blob about the entire story so far, as I understand it:

As we know, Readers & Blob, Gay-Bear-BFF was fired from his water-polo-coaching job because of 3 photos found on his facebook page by an anonymous parent, who sent the them to the principal and superintendent of Charter Oak High School in Covina, CA.

Breaking News: Mitch is 99% sure that the Anonymous Parent is a former classmate of his who, incredibly, used to gay-bash him in high school!

Here's the Scoop:
Apparently another coach ordered several water-polo players to wash cars for a water-polo-related punishment. One of the car-washers was the son of the Gay-Bashing Anonymous Parent (apparently a Cop!); other carwashing water-polo-players have come forward to say that, upon seeing his kid washing cars, they overheard Gay-Bashing Anonymous Parent say: "I'm going get that F*****g F*gg*t!" Wow.

My breath is taken away with outrage, saddysaddness and disgust. What is so scary to Gay-Bashing Cop-Dad about being Gay?  He needs an invite to Planet Unicorn.

The good news is most of the water-polo parents are now wearing Team Stein tee-shirts and several other high schools have offered Mitch water-polo-coaching jobs. However, Mitch coached to spend time with his daughter, who by the way, is doing well and loves high school. Strong kid.

The school has yet to respond to Why Mitch Was Fired, but did send 3 certified letters downsizing the facebook photos from Obscene to Inappropriate. Watch out Corndog-Snacking People in Photographs!

Where is the press? Aside from my modest snack-centric blob, there will be an article coming out in a Pomona/Covina rag; but not until Mitch's lawsuit of is filed. Where is the LA Times? If this is how the press covers discrimination & homophobia, no wonder people still feel justified to smugly commit acts of Hate.

Where are the gay folks in the Covina? Why aren't they rallying? Why aren't they loud and angry that someone in their community has been fired for being gay? Sadly, we think that they are scared, afraid of being targets for hate crime. Mitch's firing is sending the gays of Covina and Pomona back into the closet.

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Makes me want to record an audio cassette of throw-up sounds and magically make it play on loop in the prinicipal's car, office & home.

Something is horribly wrong here. No one is blobbing about this; 1 small-time newspaper has picked up the story, but hasn't even published it yet! Where are the Gay Rights blob-bloggers? Please pick up this news! Don't let the celebration of hate perpetuated by the Charter Oak High School District go un-noted!

Love The Ukulady

ps: I wonder how many gay bars the Gay-Bashing Anonymous Cop Parent secretly frequents? Give us a break, Gay-Basher! We know you want to be tagged in the Ukulady's Japanese Creme Collon Cookie picture...

pps:  After our slimming ice teas at Stories, we enjoyed tacos at Taco Truck Arabes, which parks near the Walgreens in the formerly Pioneer-Grocery Parking lot.  Yum!

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