Dean's high-tech lynching of uppity gays.

It seems Dean and the Democrats like gays only as long as they don't get too big for their britches.

Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean on May 2 fired the party's gay outreach advisor Donald Hitchcock less than a week after Hitchcock's domestic partner, Paul Yandura, a longtime party activist, accused Dean of failing to take stronger action to defend gays.

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"This is retaliation, plain and simple," said Yandura. "This shows what they think about domestic partners."


Yandura said Tuesday night that Dean was using Hitchcock as a "scapegoat" for problems of Dean's own making.


"All I did was ask questions about what the party and Dean are doing about its GLBT constituency, Yandura said. "I have yet to see any answers."