BEAUTY QUEEN SPEAKS THE TRUTH: ‘Coming out as conservative is harder than coming out as gay.’

In 2011, actor/comedian Paul Rodriguez explained his own coming out to the Annual California Republican Assembly Convention: “I remember many years since, trying to contemplate the idea of joining the Grand Old Party, and I said I better run this through Mom. I said, ‘Ma, Dad, sit down, I want to talk to you.’ Before I could go any further, they said, ‘Oh, my God, he’s gay. (AUDIENCE LAUGHTER) Ay, Dios mio, he’s gay.’ I said, ‘No, no, no, Mom, I’m thinking of being a Republican.’ She said, ‘I wish you were gay. (AUDIENCE LAUGHTER) Please look, what have we done?’”