closet cases

 I'm gay. When I realized it, I was living in Amsterdam. I went to a psychologist and told him. He looked at me oddly and said, basically, "So? You need me to give you the addresses of gay bars?" Then I flew to the U.S., for my first visit back home in 4 years, to tell my mother. Her response was to tell me I couldn't borrow her wigs. Years later my first corporate job was working for a gay man.

Aaron has a lovely belt collection and a repulsively homophobic voting recordYou can't have been a regular DWT reader if yesterday's exit from the closet by Aaron Schock was a surprise to you. Aaron was the out-est closet case in Congress when he was serving there.

Brian Stelter used his CNN.com column, Reliable Sources, to report that "Once upon a time, Lindsey Graham was a Republican senator who was not afraid to exit the Fox-verse and appear on other networks. But, in recent months, Graham has been appearing almost exclusively on Fox. In fact, he’s become a regular fixture on the president’s favored network. Since September 1, 2019, Graham has appeared at least 36 times on either Fox News or Fox Biz. He has appeared twice on CBS News in that time frame.

No one knows for sure if the pool boy was screwing Jerry Falwell, Jr. or Ayatollah Falwell was screwing the pool boy. I'll keep my theories to myself until there's further evidence, even if circumstantial evidence would lead one to believe that Jr. may have a sore tuchas from time to time. But anyway...

I spend hours a day speaking with candidates all around the country. listening to their rationale about why Blue America should endorse them and help them raise money. Sometimes it's an absolute joy-- like meeting brilliant, refreshing and sincere progressives who I know will make such a difference when they're in Congress.

On Friday we took a little look at McKinsey Pete's gay identity politics. Several people have asked me to explain why living in the closet is such a terrible thing.

BetOnline.ag was established in 2004 and is now one of the largest online sportsbooks in the world. Sports is there thing but they take bets on politics as well and report what people are actually betting on candidates at what the odds are in presidential races. As this point in the cycle their numbers jump around from day to day.

Who remembers Idaho Senator Larry Craig? He was elected to the House in 1980, was elected to the NRA's Board of Directors in 1983, the Senate in 1990, tried to seduce a humpy young undercover cop in a toilet in the Minneapolis Airport in 2007 and was forced to retire in 2009. Now he's a disgraced energy lobbyist. Craig was vehemently anti-gay but had spent his entire time in Washington orally copulating male prostitutes, many in public toilets, but some in his home.

Are ALL ultra-conservative Republican state legislators child rapists?Last week I professed bewilderment as to why Ohio state Rep and rising star Wes Goodman-- heir apparent to Jim Jordan-- faced political erasure after he was caught having consensual sex with another adult male in his district office.

Do you read the Style Section of the NY Times? Me neither, but there was a piece yesterday about gossip columnist Liz Smith, who died Sunday. I didn't know she had died and didn't know she had lived her life in the closet.