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MY LIFE AS A GAY CONGRSMAN
I wrote a book once, notg s tle that the place which the story was set was “gay”—to which a Dallas jurist quired if I ma a specialty of wrg about “quar.
Though I was a third term Democratic ngrsman om Massachetts, I had lived too long wh the burn of “the gay thg” to treat g out as a polil matter alone. I’d felt shame as I watched younger gay men and lbians nont the bigots openly wh a urage that I lacked.
‘ARTHUR’ CHARACTER COM OUT AS GAY AND GETS MARRIED SEASON 22 PREMIERE
They remaed mted to the “le” that proment people should not be outed unls they had been enmhed a gay-related sndal, but they were unrstandably eager to break the story. I nsistently said no—I didn’t ny I was gay but voked their own nondisclosure prciple. His primary ncern was outlawg abortn, but he had followed the nservative movement’s anti-gay le as well.
His nial of his homosexualy was universally—and accurately—disbelieved, and he was feated for reelectn that year.