My Reality Is I Am (Not) A Gay American

No guts, no glory hole.

Perhaps it's just a rule—Republican or Democratic—that the higher one is on one's horse, the distance from saddle to field causes a fall to be that much greater a shock to the system.

But lately, it seems easier to boil down embarrassingly hypocritical, pathologically untruthful behavior to something endemic to being Republican.

You've got pro-"family"/anti-gay Vitter frequenting prostitutes (he got off relatively unscathed with the 'I don't do that...anymore' defense); anti-gay Allen escaping menacing black men by seeking refuge at the end of (black) cop cock while in a park late at night; and President Bush defending his indefensible crony Gonzales by claiming his departure from office was little more than partisan mud-slinging. Now add to that Ida-ho' Larry Craig, who's anti-gay even as he goes down in history as one of the highest-seated pole-seeking pols ever to be exposed against his will.

The Republican aspect...is it the hypocrisy? The sexual drive? No. It's not even the simple lying. Dems are good at all of that, too, from time to time. The real thread there, and Bush's legacy, is the ability to face down reality and disallow it from intruding on one's own private Idaho. Think of it:

Vitter was a family-values freak who'd long been rumored to be having long-standing affairs with prostitutes. He was caught using a massage agency that was later exposed to be an escort service, and his response is not to resign in shame, but to refute every aspect of the story that was still refutable, copping only to having made mistakes in the past, and to soldier on. Deny, deny, deny.

Allen was an anti-gay paper-pusher who was out wandering in the middle of the night at a popular gay cruising park and who was arrested for offering an undercover cop $20 for the privilege of blowing him. Instead of admitting he was caught red-handed (and with the red hand wrapped around a brown penis), he vehemently denied the charges and continues to fight them, even claiming he'll seek higher office. Deny, deny, deny.

Even Republicans are cheered by Gonzales's long-overdue exit, and no one seriously doubts that history will judge him a corrupt figure. Yet instead of graciously accepting his resignation and moving on, Bush angrily claims it was all a personal political attack. Deny, deny, deny.

And Craig's arrest leaves ZERO room for doubt—he was out of state in an airport men's room that had enough issues with public sex that the police trolled there, he tapped his foot on the floor to get the (cute!) undercover cop's attention, moved his foot onto the cop's foot and then ran his hand under the stall. He later attempted to trade on his status as a senator. All of this comes YEARS after rumors insinuating he was gay AND that he frequently engaged in bathroom sex. How many coincidences do you need? On top of it all, he pled guilty and then went home...never telling anyone, not even his own enabling family and friends. Today, he's saying adamantly he is not gay and never has been (as if you can go in and out of gay like membership in the Communist party), despite all evidence to the contrary, and despite the fact that it's not his homosexuality that is even the thing to be "defending" himself against, it's his predilection—as an elected official—for cruising men's rooms to solicit public sex. Kids are walking around in there and some old man is looking to go down on an anonymous penis a few feet away and Larry Craig claims he has more family values than openly gay people? Deny, deny, deny.

There is a trend here among Republicans at the very top that is one everyday Republicans need to address, and it has nothing to do with smaller government, fewer taxes and a strong national defense. There is a serious flaw in too many of their leaders' collective morality, one that allows them to be absolutely unmoved by human nature vs. the restrictions we randomly place on ourselves based on religion, and yet one that allows them to disregard all of those same restrictions as it suits their own personal conduct.

The Republican party is dragging themselves down and the rest of us with them.

P.S. Yes, I'm gay and I'm not sympathetic to tearoom sex. Sue me—it's not 1959 anymore. Get a fuckin' room! Literally.

Comments

[Tomi]

Maybe he's one of those guys who says 'I'm not gay... I just happen to like guys.'?