Word: gayness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...people"--as though the current public contempt for politicians weren't actually driven by the same partisan, poll-parsing instinct he was demonstrating. On the other side, one gleeful wing of the commentariat seized on Craig as just the latest family-values conservative unmasked as a hypocrite for opposing gay marriage in public while soliciting gay sex in private--even though if Craig truly believes homosexuality is wrong, his fault would be weakness, not hypocrisy. Craig felt compelled to call a press conference, with his wife standing by his side in sunglasses the size of hubcaps, to declare that...
There was so much cynicism and comic fuel in the whole bonfire that the sadness of it was easily lost. The closet remains a dark and roomy place, full of attitudes we won't admit to and contradictions we can't explain. We can be a country that commemorates gay marriages in the Sunday papers and exalts gay characters in our sitcoms but still views it as career suicide to be an openly gay actor or athlete or politician unless you represent some very select ZIP codes. So who are the real hypocrites here, and how do we decide, publicly...
...political calculation seems to be that the issue will do more for the party if it is simply left alone. Thus far the Republican knee-jerk reaction - to reassure the conservative base - has had the side effect of energizing gay groups. Why attack him and risk the ire of gay-rights groups when Democrats can sit back and watch the GOP eat their...
...silence is being welcomed by gay activists. "I'll never complain about Democrats actually staying on message," said John Marble, communications director for Stonewall Democrats, a national gay, lesbian bi-sexual and transgender umbrella group for Democratic activists, in a telephone interview. "If anything, we'd like to see them use this opportunity to speak positively about gay families and gay Americans and be very clear that they support equal rights for the gay community...
...Craig, a three-term Republican senator from Idaho, pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct August 8 after he allegedly tried to solicit sex from an undercover police officer in a men's bathroom at the Minneapolis Airport. Craig, who has a long voting record against gay rights, this week denied any wrongdoing and denied being gay...