The asslt on the closets of power lated dramatilly 1990, changg the way the media and the gay movement would look at the "open secret" of many a public figure—as well as how you would look at your own closet, past or prent. It's hard to believe, this age of blogs that name livg and breathg closeted gay celebri daily (and often spire yawns), that ls than 20 years ago there was shock...
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MEET TWO ACTIVISTS WHO BROUGHT SWEEPG CHANGE TO THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
No sooner had Ameri’s favore palist been buried on his island Fiji than he was ”outed” by a New York gay magaze; more recently Donald Tmp, one of those vengeful passag that help make his new ”tobgraphy” so ntemptible, did aga, claimg that Forb was tossed out of a Plaza Hotel bar bee he was there wh some unrage boys.
(This me about bee Foster Wans, who wrote the Journal‘s ”Heard on the Street” lumn, was ught sellg advance rmatn about the lumn and sharg the profs wh his male lover; his homosexualy was revealed the urse of several long Journal articl exposg his crim. ) His treatment at the hands of his former employer was nsired an outrage the gay muny, and one might have thought that this would have sensized his brother, who also works for The Wall Street Journal. Among the famo people whom gay journalist Michelangelo Signorile has outed are the late magaze publisher Mallm Forb, former Defense Department spokman Pete Williams, and actrs Jodie Foster.
He was well-liked, and Signorile said that's part of the reason no straight reporter wanted to pot out the hypocrisy of an anizatn that don't adm gays havg a gay spokman. "The fact that a top Pentagon official was gay and accepted as such by his superrs-not nsired a secury risk, which at that time had been the Pentagon's ma reason for purgg gays-reprented a double standard.