Just in time for tonight's Democratic forum on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues in Los Angeles: A group calling itself "Gays for Giuliani" released its first ad this week, and as far as I know it's completely factual. It's also deeply subversive, and with the amount of attention blogs and MSM are giving it (Andrew Sullivan, Wonkette, Firedoglake, Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic, Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine are just some of the bigger write-ups, and supposedly CNN is covering it), it just might get past the five-digit "below the radar" threshold of viewership that most political videos seem to attain without much trouble and into the six-digit "making an impact" level. Right now it's at about 15,000 views and climbing.



On his MySpace page, Ryan Davis, the maker of the video, says "I'm a gay New York City resident who lived here while Rudy was Mayor. I appreciated his support of my community when he was mayor and am shocked and offended by his flip-flopping on gay issues. I made this ad to remind Rudy who he was when he was mayor and to let Republican primary voters have some idea on the man they're voting for."

I like that when you search for "gays for Giuliani" on Google it asks you if you mean "guys for Giuliani."