LOTS MORE PIM FORTUYN COVERAGE over at the Independent Gay Forum. Sample quote:

Openly gay Dutch politician and sociology professor Pim Fortuyn has been assailed as a “right-wing extremist,” as if he were Holland’s answer to France’s Jean-Marie Le Pen. The charge is absurd: Fortuyn has urged immigrants to embrace their adopted nation’s liberal values of political tolerance, women’s equality and respect for gays. Yet he, rather than the Muslim clerical leaders he criticizes, winds up getting tarred as some sort of reactionary or fascist.

Yes, I wonder if Fortuyn’s gayness has something to do with the tone of his coverage — and I don’t just mean the rather un-PC characterization of him as “flamboyant” in the New York Times.