All Your Rick Perry Gay Sex Rumors Collected One Handy Book

Contents:

• ALL YOUR RICK PERRY GAY SEX RUMORS COLLECTED ONE HANDY BOOK
• RICK PERRY GAY RUMORS: GOVERNOR'S AIS PREPARED TO TACKLE ALLEGATNS SHOULD THEY RURFACE: REPORT
• RICK PERRY GAY RUMORS SPARK STEPHANIE MILLER/RH LIMBGH/POLI WAR OF WORDS
• WARNS OF PERRY GAY RUMOR BY RETELLG IT
• REPORT: RICK PERRY AIS BATTLED GAY RUMOR WH LAWSU THREAT

ALL YOUR RICK PERRY GAY SEX RUMORS COLLECTED ONE HANDY BOOK

Glen Maxey, the first openly gay member of the Texas State Legislature and longtime Democratic activist, spent most of last summer helpg a reporter for a "natnal news outlet" nail down persistent mors of Rick Perry's sexual relatnships wh men. A "Gay Bsman" iend of Maxey's emailed him this:The whole story is that i have a ex iend who hired this kid years ago o sex and they beme iends.

I was out at Ra [a gay club At] wh my iend and we ran to this htler kid.

"Among the other leads Maxey and the reporter pursued were reports that a gay mallrat who always wore fancy cloths and jewelry lled Rick Perry his "sugar daddy" (he nied when reached by Maxey), that Perry had an affair wh a disgraced gay former legislator who had been nvicted for misappropriatn of funds (he nied when reached by the reporter), that there exists a photo of Perry and the nvicted legislator together, shirtls a field of bluebons (he never found ), that Perry attend a gay party wh a iend who "had his pkie fger hooked to [Perry's] belt night long, " and that Perry fired three gay staff members a hoe-cleang after the Connor mors first says the story was wrten, eded, and placed for publitn last October—along wh strenuo nials and legal threats om the Perry mp—when the rporate parent of the "natnal news outlet" killed , partly due to squeamishns about the story and partly bee Perry's mpaign llapsed.

RICK PERRY GAY RUMORS: GOVERNOR'S AIS PREPARED TO TACKLE ALLEGATNS SHOULD THEY RURFACE: REPORT

Former six-term state reprentative Glen Maxey and Texas’s first openly gay legislator, has self-published a book tled Head Figure Head: The Search for the Hidn Life of Rick Perry which he vtigat mors about the ernor’s sexualy. “Maxey scrib his own book as ‘the story of my failed attempts to expose Rick Perry’s homosexual enunters. His characterizatn of the suatn match one outled more tail an ebook by Mike Allen and Evan Thomas, which explaed that Perry’s ais were “distrsed to learn that Jason Cherkis, a Huffgton Post reporter, was At prowlg around on a story that had been gossiped about for years the Texas pal: is Perry gay?

“We looked at what we had; we realized that was not a publishable story, and was over, ” Ariana Huffgton told of early Monday morng, the book was ’s number-one bt-seller the “Gay and Lbian” tegory, as well as the number-one Kdle book the “Electns” tegory. Roughly seven years ago, Perry himself addrsed the unsubstantiated buzz that he and his wife planned to divorce and that he was gay.

The stori were remarkably wispread and remarkably specific: Perry’s wife, was said, was divorcg him after disverg Perry bed wh an ai, an openly gay man. The stori climaxed on Febary 24, when a gay-rights group picketed the mansn rryg signs wh such slogans as ’s okay to be gay, guv.

RICK PERRY GAY RUMORS SPARK STEPHANIE MILLER/RH LIMBGH/POLI WAR OF WORDS

“Well, sh, I’ve gone to parti wh my gay iends and I’m not gay. Yet every gay guy At knew someone, always a iend of a iend, who fely slept wh the ernor. At one party, I had one gay guy swear Perry was a top and one gay guy swear he was a bottom.

Texas Governor Rick Perry seems to have a b of a Charlie Crist problem, at least acrdg to this week’s Poli article dmmg up old mors that the potential 2012 Republin ndidate may be gay.

WARNS OF PERRY GAY RUMOR BY RETELLG IT

The story begs wh Monday’s Poli piece, which argu that Rick Perry gay mors uld be the new Barack Obama Mlim mors, and that Perry’s team, should he ci to n for Print, is bracg for impact.

Miller jok that “if [Perry] turns out to be gay, Rh wont be iends wh him, ” to which a -host rponds, fx-news anchor voice, “noted homosexual Rick Perry. Conservative watchdog Newsbters immediately acced Miller of “spreadg the mor” that Perry is gay, though while beg the one to brg up the Poli article, Miller very clearly stat she se no evince to believe that.

The first, of urse, is the ial mor that Perry is gay– the sort of mor that, for a social nservative, n be serly damng. The obv pot that such mors have no place the polil disurse has time and aga been proven one of the most apt at beg pletely ignored by anyone affectg the polil disurse– a sad but nohels ncrete realy perpetuated by the satiable thirst the news cycle seems to have for sex– real or virtual, gay or straight, proven or mored.

REPORT: RICK PERRY AIS BATTLED GAY RUMOR WH LAWSU THREAT

Poli may be reportg on a story about a mor, and not that mor self, but throwg a shy ltle trket like a gay mor out there is more than enough to distract the media for at least a few hours– and that Poli ran the story mak the mor fair game for someone like Miller some ntexts. Miller ed the story only to highlight what she perceiv as Limbgh’s homophobia– an entirely different argument altogether– but never suggted she believed the mors.

Nor did her -host, whose fake newsster voice may have even been a Limbgh imprsn of how he would talk about Perry if he were gay (but was more likely jt a throwaway ment), fively “out” Perry.

Newsbter‘s Jack Coleman‘s issue wh the clip om Miller’s show appears to be that, bee she was permted to stay the closet until she was ready to e out, she should give the same rpect to those who may or may not be ready yet: Miller apparently wants Republin policians she spects of beg gay to e out of the closet as well, regardls of whether they are so cled, ” he wr.

Miller only acced Limbgh of homophobia– a claim that, given Elton John‘s appearance at Limbgh’s latt weddg, is more than up for bate– but did not ment on Perry.

To raise the specter of hypocrisy at Miller bee she happens to be gay don’t exactly tackle the key problem the aris even botherg to addrs the mors as if they had any impact on Rick Perry as a polil figure that has the power to fluence lns of Amerin liv.