Florida's Governor Engayged: Does This Count As "Gay Marriage?"

If Charlie's getting married, is Jason the best man?

All the Madonna/A-Rod/A-Rod's wife/Lenny Kravitz drama is so patently manufactured I can't even be bothered to get excited by the prospect of Madonna sharking through the sexual waters again as a tabloid Tessie. When all the players share a manager, it's too obvious. Madonna looks like she's rolling her eyes as she dutifully appears in public with Guy, knowing this is what is needed. There is nothing to see here.

Equally ridiculous and much more serious is the identical media-coddled (so far) game being played by Florida's gay governor, Charlie Crist. No, he's not openly gay. But he's been single for three decades and several have come forward to out him. Outing is a good thing, IMHO, when you're talking about adults attempting to remain in the closet for financial gain because we all need to be taught—your wealth is not more important than our shared reality.

Outing is a great thing, IMHO, when you're talking about adults attempting to remain in the closet in order to rise up the ranks of the GOP. Right into the vice-presidential slot.

There is no mistaking how seriously John McCain is eyeing Charlie Crist as a possible veep. The idea that a Republican desperately needs a Florida governor to deliver Florida should be sign enough that McCain's McCampaign is taking an unanticipated dive into enemy jungles. But what else does Crist deliver? He's handsome and virile, but he's not rich (his net worth is $450,000, making him one of the, if not the, poorest governors in the country), he doesn't have national recognition, he's got white hair and he's probably gay. I'm guessing he'll be dyeing his hair soon and going on national talk shows more often, because he can't get rich overnight (and that's Cindy McCain's job anyway) and he's already fixing the gay part: He's getting engaged.

How do I know Crist is gay? I don't. How do I know Jodie Foster is gay? I don't. But short of being told directly by the person, there are many clues. Google "Charlie Crist is gay" and you get "about 1,450" hits; I'm not the first one to this party.

 

 

Crist had a long-term boyfriend (con Bruce Carlton Jordan) who was outed (see video), and a young Republican operative, Jon-Erik Hexum look-alike Jason Wetherington, bragged to friends that he'd bedded Crist. All of this is out there. All of this has been denied. But reading the reports and watching the news about it...does any of it, any of it at all, sound made up or far-fetched?

If you want to whine that we shouldn't out homos in politics, or that we should be happy that a gay man might be on a ticket (even secretly) or that the left always calls right-wing gays self-loathing hypocrites and it's just a cliché, consider this from an article linked above:

"Crist has repeatedly denied that he is gay and, with the election looming next week, has recently become more vocal in his stance against adoption by gay couples and in support of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage."

John McCain, I think it's great that you want to consider a gay guy as your veep. How terribly Democratic of you. But if you go through with it, we're going to keep barking until the media does its job and exposes him as the lying hypocrite that he is. You think the Clintons' sexual escapades got embarrassing? What stuff do you think is gonna bubble up from the swamps of Florida about a gay man in his 50s? That's a whole lot of life he's lived, and most of it is—so far—a big question mark.

Comments

[daryl d]

So, do you think the Madonna / A-Rod / Kravitz drama is all manufactured by Guy O'Seary? It's a possibility. It got Madonna on several newspaper covers.

[queerunity]

my mom saw this guy on TV, she didn't know him but she was like "now thats a gay man" LOL

http://www.queersunited.blogspot.com

[Chas]

His ex boyfriend would be a fucking con, wouldn't he. You gotta love how these closeted homos--the conservative ones especially--would always rather run with whores and criminals than "come out" and date someone respectable. And we're supposed to be the freaks and perverts?

[Mimi Schaeffer]

I had it confirmed by a drunk loyal Bushie.

[kenneth]

>>But reading the reports and watching the news about it...does any of it, any of it at all, sound made up or far-fetched?<<

Wait, are you SURE you're not talking about Madonna and her complete and total type Alex Rodriguez here?! You know, the thing that you "can't even get excited about" even though you have mentioned on NUMEROUS occasions?(!)

[Matthew Rettenmund]

Hey, if Madonna's fucking A-Rod, more power to her I'm not a strong "homewrecker!" hollerer. I just think if all of them share an agent, having worked in the entertainment (publishing) biz as long as I have, it makes me supersuspicious. But I will say the whole Kabbalah part is intriguing (that it's confirmed he's into it). Or that could explain the Svengali as opposed to sexgali aspect of what's happening between the two. The Madonna/A-Rod affair does, to me, sound slightly made up also because...where are pictures of Madonna hanging with him overnight? When is she coming and going to see him? I would say her movements are well documented. Plus Guy is a hothead, so if he felt Madonna were sleeping with A-Rod, would he even bother with the charade as he's been doing?

[taylor Siluwe]

I'd never heard about the Crist gay thing. Interesting. Well, so much for Florida. McCain surely won't pick him for veep now. Will he?