California Town Vice-Mayor Asked To Resign After He Wants To Make July 'Straight-Pride Month'

“Don’t get me wrong,” he cautioned in his column. “I support the First Amendment, as much as the next person, and support the rights of grown men to wear skin tight short-shorts and go-go boots and don tinker bell wings with wand and prance down the streets of San Francisco.”Show more

His column, which also is available on his personal blog, also referred to “the tinker bells” and “dressing up like faries.”

Reaction from pro-gay advocates was swift.

An online petition to demand his recall had more than 23,000 signers by Sunday afternoon (the entire population of Dixon was less than 19,000 in the 2010 Census). A Facebook pagedemanding a similar result was also created and had more than 1,700 subscribers and a similar number of “Likes” by then.