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December 2, 2008
ARCHIVE: Closeted Republicans

It was probably inevitable. The Idaho Statesman, the newspaper that originally broke the story of Sen. Larry Craig’s arrest in an airport restroom for soliciting an undercover cop, has published the names of four gay men who claim to have had sex with Craig, been solicited by him or experienced “unusual attention” from Mr. Wide […]

Topics: Closeted Republicans, Gay |

Leola McConnell, the former dominatrice and militant for civil equality for people of all sexual orientations — who claimed in her memoir, “Lustful Utterances,” to have had S&M sex with George Bush in the 1980s — is feared by friends to be missing, according to this unsubstantiated report:
“I hide from no man. I fear no […]

Topics: Closeted Republicans, Politics |

Associated Press:
Sen. Larry Craig says he will file an appeal Monday over a judge’s refusal to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea stemming from his arrest in an airport bathroom sex sting.
In an interview Sunday with KTVB-TV, Craig repeated he will not resign his post in the Senate and said he will continue to […]

Topics: Closeted Republicans, GOP Adulterers |

Come out, come out, wherever you closeted Republican hypocrites are! Oct. 11 is National Coming Out Day, a time to resolve to live openly as you are. And, in the case of some Republican politicians, to quit trying to make homosexuality go away by legislating it out of existence.
You can even find help at www.comeout.org. […]

Topics: Closeted Republicans, GOP Adulterers |

Sen. Craig was supposed to step down on Sept. 30 but apparently has not. Maybe he was waiting on this:
Senator Larry E. Craig failed today in his effort to withdraw his guilty plea in connection with an undercover sex sting operation. The decision dealt the Idaho Republican a crippling setback in his attempt to hold […]

Topics: Closeted Republicans, GOP Adulterers |

Mike Rogers of Blogactive, who is widely credited with setting the outing of Sen. Larry Craig in motion, wrote yesterday to disavow my assertion that two Republican senators were on his list to be outed.
If there are more outings in the offing, it will be interesting to see if the GOP continues its pursuit […]

Topics: Closeted Republicans, GOP Adulterers |

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In the wake of closeted Sen. Larry Craig’s self-outing in an airport men’s room this summer, word from Washington says more revelations are coming about the secret sexual identities […]

Topics: Closeted Republicans, GOP Adulterers |

When the Karl Roves and Andrea Laffertys of the world decided that the best way to get out the vote was to fire up the masses about gay rights, they never considered that some of their own were gay too. It’s kind of like forgetting that some Republicans are black, and one or two are […]

Topics: Republicans, Closeted Republicans, GOP Adulterers |

The clamor for Sen. Larry “Wide Stance” Craig to resign is growing by the minute among Republicans in Washington. The senator’s inadvertent self-outing in an airport men’s room in June has rendered him too morally impure to remain in the GOP.
So what are the moral dictates behind the decision that Craig should go but Vitter […]

Topics: GOP & Prostitutes, Closeted Republicans, GOP Adulterers |

In his “Everyday Ethics” column, Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute mulls over the question of when it is appropriate or germane to a story to identify a public figure or politician as gay. He notes that there were intimations that the latest scandalized pol was gay almost a year ago:
Last fall when a gay […]

Topics: Closeted Republicans |
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