Sooey Says

First, there was the Gay Pride Parade.
Then there was a group called "Queers Against Israeli Apartheid". (Hunh?! Sex and politics in one parade?!)
Which got Bernie Farber's (Head Gay, Er, Guy at the Canadian Jewish Congress) knickers in a twist (because nothing gets Bernie Farber's knickers in a twist, like the two words "Israeli" and "Apartheid" used together to say "Israeli Apartheid").
So, next thing you know, Bernie's marching in the Gay Pride Parade with the hastily convened "Queers Against Queers Against Israeli Apartheid" contingent, or somesuch. And for some reason, Bernie Farber chooses to march in the Gay Pride Parade wearing a tee-shirt that proudly proclaims in Hebrew (ooh... kinky... but discreet, a most unlikely combo in the Gay Pride Parade) "Nobody Knows I'm Gay".
Uh, okay. Nobody really cares, either, but... uh... does your wife know?
Never one to miss a quip, out of the blue (although in the comments section of an entry in which she details the ins and outs of the whole "Queers Against Israeli Apartheid" imbroglio, which became an imbroglio because Bernie Farber tried to prevent "Queers Against Israeli Apartheid" from being allowed to march in the Gay Pride Parade), along comes Antonia Zerbisias of Broadsides:

Yes, Susan, imagine my surprise when I saw Bernie Farber identifying himself as queer by joining a pro-Israel gay rights group in the parade. Funny because I had never seen him in the march before. Funny because I didn't know he was gay.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

He even posted a picture of himself, and on Twitter wrote:

''Pride just finishe, great day to be a Jew and Zionist in Toronto
1:18 PM Jun 28th from mobile web ''

Which is pretty funny (especially for a Feminist-on-the-Left, I think). And when I read it, I knew that Antonia Zerbisias was joking about Bernie Farber being so desperate to add some corporate muscle to "Queers Against Queers Against Israeli Apartheid" that he found himself marching in the Gay Pride Parade wearing a tee-shirt proclaiming in Hebrew (heheh - gawddammit - who knew so many exhibitionists could read Hebrew?) - "Nobody Knows I'm Gay".

Now, in my opinion, all of the above is neither here nor there. Bernie Farber could be gayer'n Liberace for all anybody should care - or as straight as Cher. And he could be the Gayest Zionist or the Most Zionist Gay at the CJC, too, and it's really nobody's business but his (and whoever he's practicing safe sex with, of course). But what happened next changes everything because Kathy English, the public editor (I know - who knew?) of the Toronto Star, not only apologized for The Zerb's funny quip (which Bernie Farber SO asked for, don't you think?) but spanked her for it. And (here's the kicker) she did it because Bernie Farber demanded she do it.

Which takes us to now and the apology I demand from Kathy English, to The Zerb, for not telling Bernie Farber, instead, to "get bent"- literally, figuratively - whatever turns his crank.

Update: Apparently, "Nobody Knows I'm Gay" only looked Hebrew (er, well, I'm not sure how else to put it...) but was in English.