2007-03-27 04:30:46 · 9 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Here's a great article "straight" from a Gay closeted Republican.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15170951/site/newsweek/
The GOP Closet
I know what it’s like to be a secretly gay conservative on the Hill. And I know that the Republican Party can overcome the Foley scandal.
Web-Exclusive Commentary
By Brian O'Leary Bennett
Special to Newsweek
Oct. 7, 2006 - I know what it's like to be a closeted gay Republican on Capitol Hill. I spent 17 years hiding my sexual orientation while working as an aide to conservative lawmakers in the 1970s and '80s. As I watched the Foley scandal unfold last week, I felt sympathy for other gay members of Congress and staffers. When I was in the closet on Capitol Hill, I was deep in the closet. It was too dangerous for me to socialize. So I never did. I'm not saying I wasn’t ever indiscrete. But it was rare, because that too was risky. Once it almost cost me life in what until now was an untold, unreported hate crime, the memories of which were painfully stitched into my scalp in a Fairfax hospital emergency room. But what closeted chief of staff to a leading anti-gay conservative congressman would ever report something like that to the Virginia police? So like other closet-cases before and after me, I lied about what really happened. I’m glad those dreadful, pathetic days of no-win choices are behind me.
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2007-03-27 04:39:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 1⤋
I am a gay republican who is not in the closet - however I would assume that no matter what your political affiliation living a closeted life is difficult. Wouldn't you agree?
2007-03-27 11:35:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When asked this question, Log Cabin Republican I.M. Gayllom, at the Lord of the C**K Rings opening stated:
"It Burns us, it Burns us....the Precious, they want's it, they needs it but they won't come out of the Precious, the Precious closet, my love".
2007-03-27 11:36:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
First they get a terrible rash and then they have to take a lot of antibiotics. Next they begin to kick the dog for no good reason. Eventually, they get a boob job or face lift, just because they 'hate ' their bodies.
Finally, they drive to Kmart, buy a rifle, and shoot all the children playing at the city swimming pool, i.e, they snap and go 'postal.' And those are the good things that effect them . . .
2007-03-27 11:44:28 · answer #4 · answered by Kedar 7 · 12⤊ 0⤋
It'll kill you in the end; if not by a heart attack then by a stroke. Either way being closeted can literally make a man sick.
2007-03-27 12:36:29 · answer #5 · answered by AJD 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll ask my Nazi friend, Moishe Rabinowitz, what it's like for him. Should be pretty much the same.
Or I could call my buddy, Cleveland Carter, the African American Klansman.
2007-03-27 11:56:37 · answer #6 · answered by tkdeity 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it prevents them from joining the Log Cabin Republicans
2007-03-27 11:35:43 · answer #7 · answered by TRACER 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
They don't get out much.
2007-03-27 12:35:26 · answer #8 · answered by unclefrunk 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Ask Die Gays!
2007-03-27 11:33:51 · answer #9 · answered by Liberals love America! 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋