Vice mayor of California town celebrates “straight pride” by calling gay men fairies.

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Dixon Vice Mayor Ted Hickman has defended a portion of his column published Friday in the Independent Voice, which celebrates July as "Straight Pride American Month" and compares gay men to fairies. Hickman has defended his writing as "tongue-in-cheek." The Sacramento Bee

The vice mayor of Dixon has defended a portion of a recent column he wrote for the city’s independent newspaper after several readers and residents called the piece homophobic.

The most recent edition of Vice Mayor Ted Hickman’s column, “That’s Life,” appeared Friday in Dixon’s Independent Voice…