Comments on: Larry has a fellow GOP toe-tapping friend in Louisiana

by: Ankhorite

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:47:21 +0100

Twenty-seven years ago last Wednesday:

Momentous Collapses in Campaign History

This day in political history: Rep. Bob Bauman (R-MD), a leading pro-family conservative, pleads not guilty to a misdemeanor charge that he committed a sex act with a 16-year-old boy in Washington, D.C., back in March. The married Bauman — heavily favored to win re-election — says the incident stemmed from his “acute alcoholism” (Oct. 3, 1980). The following month, Bauman loses his seat to Democrat Roy Dyson.

by: Judy Brown

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:35:22 +0100

I think that the bathroom sex might be particulary enticing to fundie closet cases because it’s extra “dirty.”

Also: hiring a gay prostitute means credit card receipts (or the hotel room, if nothing else) and that the hustlers have, um, memories.

It’s unlikely some other uptight closet case is going to report your bathroom encounter.

Case in point, Mike Jones the former hustler who outed Ted Haggard now says that Larry Craig was a former customer.

It’s enough to drive Republican closet cases to the nearest bathroom stall, more private, providing the cops aren’t holding a sting operation (and Di Fatto got away with it twice, anyway, even after being flagged by the cops!)

Considering how thin our police force is stretched (what with the funds siphoned off for “homeland security,” I imagine that the cops are only targeting the toilets where they’ve received sufficient civilian complaints that make it a safety issue.

by: Doug Broussard

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:10:22 +0100

I wonder if officer Mancuso busted him at the Greyhoun’ station by de’ Superdome?

(Read Confederacy of Dunces if this doesn’t make sense to you.)

by: Dennis

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:37:13 +0100

Okay, we have to get rid of the closet. I am a bi guy, and if someone ever reaches over and touches me while I’m taking a crap, I will cut his hand off. I AM A LITTLE BUSY RIGHT NOW.

by: Cara

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:33:43 +0100

You’d think that the Republicans might have learned their lessons by now. Why the hell don’t they just hire prostitutes and have them sent to their hotel rooms? I’m sure that they can afford it. I mean, that could be a sting, too, but it seems less likely at this point. And I doubt that someone who want to work so hard to outlaw abortion, keep women at home and shame all the gays is exactly concerned about the exploitation in the prostitution industry, so that can’t be it. It really does boggle the mind.

And makes me sick that we’re spending tax dollars to put undercover cops in men’s bathrooms to arrest men for actions that are of no true threat to no one. How about some undercover cops in frat houses to step in and stop the date rape? Oh wait, that’s straight “sex.” We only care about what men consensually do with each other, not what men do non-consensually to women. How silly of me to forget! Carry on, officers, carry on.

by: Matthew, Patron Saint of Affogato

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:23:02 +0100

You know, Orange, you’d think that. But that doesn’t get the anonymity of a public bathroom. I still remember the time when the obviously gay teacher left the gay bar as soon as I walked in (I didn’t make it clear that I’d seen him, or care that he was gay… I was there with my wife and a gay friend); guess he didn’t want it getting around the office.

I still kinda think “ew” when I think about sex in a public bathroom, though. There’ve gotta be better places.

by: Orange

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:56:49 +0100

I think these closeted men cruising public bathrooms are giving gay men a bad name. All those nice fellows who have boyfriends aren’t hitting up the loo at an airport or department store, are they? I’m not a gay man, so this is only speculation: If an uncloseted gay man who doesn’t have a monogamous relatonship should find himself hankering for anonymous sex, does he head straight for a public bathroom, or does it make a helluva lot more sense to just go to a gay bar?