Frank's gaydar detects Craig

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said last week that Sen. Larry Craig is likely gay. The Idaho Republican, who has emphatically denied he is gay or bisexual, has fended off rumors of his homosexuality repeatedly during his three decades in politics, most recently denying allegations he solicited gay sex in a Minnesota airport restroom this summer.

Frank, one of only two openly gay members of Congress, said he had reached his conclusion about Craig from news reports. In particular, he cited a report in the Idaho Statesman that Craig had engaged in oral sex with another man in a Union Station bathroom, probably in 2004.

Frank, who served with Craig in the House from 1981 to 1991 before Craig was elected to the Senate, said he believed Craig’s arrest was unfair.

“I don’t think he should have been arrested, but it’s more likely than not that he was interested in sex,” Frank said.

Asked if he believed Craig was gay, Frank replied: “More likely than not.”

A spokesman for Craig could not immediately be reached for comment.

Frank was in his fourth House term when he came out in 1987, and he has had his own share of gay sex controversies. Still, he had no sympathy for Craig.

“You have a right to privacy but not hypocrisy,” Frank said. “During the period that I was closeted for seven years, I was always a gay rights supporter. I think it’s a fundamental violation of principles to vote one way and act another.”

Richard Curtis, a GOP state rep in Washington, voted this year against domestic partnerships for the state's gay couples. He also opposed a bill that bans nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. So knowing what we know about this generation's crop of Republican lawmakers, this should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone....

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Mr Quah, 21, has also admitted to looking at porn websites in the past two weeks, which made his position untenable given his party's strong commitment to protect children by making porn harder to access on the internet.

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Here are several options that can be added to your basic suit, glasses and senator’s pin. This system will allow dozens of Larry Craigs to coexist at one party without losing their individuality.

• Sport a large sign that reads “NOT GAY”
• Carry a roll of toilet paper and keep a square taped to your shoe
• Construct a bathroom stall around you, held up by suspenders (much like a kissing booth)
• Carry a boarding pass, Minneapolis to Washington
• Attach a knife handle to your back, identified by the letters “GOP”
• Wear tap shoes
• Cling to a giant Senate seal (you can occasionally mention that you’re about to let go, but then don’t)
• Show up with a friend wearing a police badge around his neck.

A man has come forward with a claim that he has engaged in gay sex with scandalized Idaho Senator Larry Craig (R-ID), who pleaded guilty to charges resulting from a sex sting in the Minneapolis, MN airport. The encounter was reported by Wonkette, a popular DC-based blog. 'I went pale and nearly vomited,' says David Phillips, speaking of a recent night in a bar, through which Larry Craig's voice came out of a nearby television.

Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) has used $23,000 in campaign funds to pay the top Washington ethics lawyer, Stan Brand, who is fighting his case before the Senate ethics committee, according to Craig’s latest filing with the Federal Election Commission. No additional legal expenses appear in the report, but they eventually will. Craig, according to his office, has decided to use his campaign committee for attorney fees related to his criminal defense in Minnesota as well.

History here in North Carolina! Chapel Hill resident Jim Neal, an investment banker and former Democratic presidential fundraiser, is running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in 2008, and he hopes to unseat the horrid Elizabeth 'Do-Nothing' Dole.

The big news is that he is running as an out gay man, something he announced Saturday in an online forum at BlueNC. It came about when someone registered on the site and just asked the Big Question:"

Sadly, the irony of Craig’s predicament is lost on him. Like it or not, he has become a member of that community he so loathes. Mitt Romney publicly denounced him and removed him from his Idaho campaign, giving Craig a little taste of what it’s like to be the member of a group that is hated and discriminated against. No wonder he chose to run back into the closet. His so-called friends in the GOP are shunning him and some, he claims, even refuse to look him in the eye. How does it feel, Larry?

But rather than add his voice to those fighting prejudice and discrimination, Craig continues to propagate both. Even after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with solicitation of gay sex, he continues to demonize and attack fellow gay people. Craig told Lauer that homosexuality is, “a lifestyle I don’t agree with.” He voted against the hate crimes bill only weeks ago, maintaining his perfect anti-gay voting record in Congress.

"Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay. J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall."

Idaho Senator Larry Craig will end his silence and appeal to the court of public opinion in an exclusive “Matt Lauer Reports” primetime special on Tuesday, October 16 and on “Today” Wednesday, October 17th, an NBC press report said.

Craig is expected to discuss his August arrest in a Minneapolis men's room for lewd behavior, his failed attempt to withdraw his guilty plea in the case, and his recent retraction of his resignation from the Senate. It is also widely assumed Craig will once again deny being gay.

The network said Lauer will also interview the Senator's wife, Suzanne Craig, who will be speaking publicly for the first time about her husband's troubles.

Embattled Sen. Larry Craig asked the Minnesota Court of Appeals Monday to overrule a county judge who refused to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea in connection with an arrest in an airport bathroom sex sting.

Craig's appeal was filed at the court in St. Paul less than two weeks after Hennepin County Judge Charles Porter refused to overturn the guilty plea, saying it "was accurate, voluntary and intelligent, and ... supported by the evidence."

Craig, a Republican from Idaho, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in August after he was accused of soliciting sex in a bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in June.

Brown County Republican Party chairman faces sex charges

The chairman of the Republican Party in Brown County faces criminal charges for allegedly fondling a 16-year-old Ethan House runaway and providing the boy with beer and marijuana late last year.

Donald Fleischman, 37, of Allouez, was charged last month with two counts of child enticement, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a child and a single charge of exposing himself to a child.

Mike Jones, author of I Had To Say Something, has ceased giving interviews following a stormy confrontation with PageOneQ's editor Mike Rogers.

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Without further comment, Weiner responded via email:

Mike is taking a break from interviews right now and has no comment on the Craig allegations.

Just about every country in the world has been rattled by some sort of political sex scandal in recent times.

But sex scandals loom so large throughout the West because of a free (and aggressive) press--a phenomenon magnified by technology. In Washington blogger Mike Rogers uses the Web to "out" gay government staffers and members of Congress. Naomi Seligman Steiner, deputy director of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, says the rise of the Internet and 24-hour cable news has empowered the public with an "insatiable appetite" for scandal.

PageOneQ and BlogActive's Mike Rogers, the blogger who first reported on Larry Craig's activities in public bathrooms has challenged Mike Jones, famed Denver escort and outer of fallen megachurch leader Ted Haggard, to produce evidence he has met with Senator Larry Craig as he claimed on radio last night.

As little as 14 years ago, the phrase "lesbian and gay community" was used by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force back in 1993 (while NGLTF is now leading
the charge for transgender inclusion in the "LGBT" community).

...Aravosis has significant political experience, having served five years as a legislative attorney for US Senator Ted Stevens.

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