Salon.com > Jimmy Doyle http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 04:40:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Oprah can still bring this gay man to tears http://www.salon.com/2011/01/26/oprah_gay_rights_open2011/ http://www.salon.com/2011/01/26/oprah_gay_rights_open2011/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/2011/01/26/oprah_gay_rights_open2011 I have to say upfront that I haven't been able to look Oprah in the eye since "The Secret." As a struggling artist in Los Angeles, I couldn't turn around after that book was on her show without someone telling me that I needed to visualize my prosperity, read the book, or watch the DVD. I did watch the DVD, and let's just say it didn't match the spirituality and belief system of this gay Episcopalian socialist. I began to see Oprah as living in a rarefied air, just one billionaire talking to another in her interview with J.K. Rowling, and a bit too enmeshed in a system I was finding more and more distasteful: namely, capitalism. I haven't gotten more mellow and conservative with age, I've become more liberal and downright revolutionary. I'm sure if it weren't for my bad knee I'd be marching somewhere, right?

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