Backed by Wonder Woman, gays on the rise in U.S.

Arizona's own Lynda Carter was Wonder Woman back in the 1970s.

It was a headline that certainly grabbed my attention:

“9 mil in U.S. may be gay, bisexual”

Before I saw it, I hadn’t really given much thought to how many gays or bisexuals we had in the U.S., but according to this article in The Arizona Republic, 9 mil (as in million) is a surprisingly high number, especially when compared to surveys conducted in other countries.

If this estimate, based on the average of 5 different surveys, and those in other countries are correct, we are left to ponder an interesting possibility – that the U.S., with as much as 5 percent of its population gay or bi, has more gays and bisexuals than the rest of the world (Norway, for example, only has 1.2 percent). Which would be pretty interesting since the U.S. also has the most homophobic Bozos in the world.

Right here in Arizona, home of Bozos, the news that one in every 20 of us is gay or bi has to send up a major league red flag. It means the Bozos have a whole different kind of alien to worry about.  Can SB1071 be far behind? Or a state law allowing gays to be stalked and hunted?

Fortunately, Wonder Woman was born and raised in Arizona – and Wonder Woman, I am sorry to inform you Bozos, is fond of gays. I’m talking about Lynda Carter, of course, the buxom actress who played Wonder Woman in the 1970s TV series.

It seems like only yesterday when I would sit down with my son to watch Wonder Woman’s latest, ummm, exploits. It was so refreshing to have a superhero whose attributes were different from those of Batman and Superman, but still so very super in and of themselves.

But I would guess every Bozo watching TV in the 70s was also tuned to Wonder Woman. It’s probably the one thing all us guys have in common – regardless of our political persuasion. But I’ll also bet they never guessed she’d become a friend and supporter of gays – to the point where she is serving as the grand marshall of this year’s Phoenix Pride parade, a celebration of the gay and lesbian community.

According to the Republic, the 59-year-old Carter is “an icon in the gay and lesbian community.” And it’s easy to see why, especially when she gets on her high horse and calls attacks on gay marriage an attempt to demonize people.

“I get upset at bullies, and that’s all they are, are bullies,” she told the Republic’s Richard Ruelas. “It’s bullying, trying to say your way is better, trying to say they are better.”

But there’s another reason lesbians admire Wonder Woman. She serves as a role model. In a male-dominated world, she inspired young girls to believe they could grow up to be anything – even a well endowed superhero.

So how weird is it that this redneck, Bozo state of ours reared Wonder Woman. But whatever allowed this anomaly to happen, Arizona’s Bozos can take heart. Because if there is one thing we can count on in this world it’s that the Arizona State Legislature will take matters into its collectively bumbling hands and draft some kind of bizarre legislation that takes more funds from education and poor people and uses them to stomp out gays and bisexuals.

And until that legislation is crafted, we can rest assured that Gov. Jan (couldn’t utter a grammatic sentence if her life depended on it) Brewer will keep us regaled with tales of the decapitated bodies that gays and bisexuals are leaving scattered about the desert.

But for right now, I’m enjoying the heck out of this. Gays and bisexuals are on the increase in the U.S., and with Wonder Woman behind them, Arizona’s bigots better beware.