Clinton Hammond has made homophobic comments before on the Mudcat (about Ashley MacIssac specifically); usually just lame jokes but also nasty graphic insults. It turned into quite a flame war, er, discussion. But at least he used his own name attached to his comments. Then again, who knows who this GUEST is?

There does seem to be some degree of homophobia in the Irish music community here in Boston; which is a sort of microcosm of the traditional music community. Hard to say why, but then this community is also rather misogynistic and racist as well, and this is historically true of the Irish-American population (go figure, since they were discriminated against when their Irish ancestors first arrived here). Not sure if it's an ethnic thing or not, and it certainly sounds like I am stereotyping, but it is certainlyw hat I have observed (and I am half Irish-American).