Free Onle Library: Jim McGreevey: cshed by the closet: for years the New Jersey ernor hid that he's gay. Then he rigned amid a flurry of sndals. A behd-the-scen look at how his double life cloud his judgment. by "The Advote (The natnal gay & lbian newsmagaze)"; News, opn and mentary Gay policians Homosexualy Polil activy Polil aspects
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- JIM MCGREEVEY: CSHED BY THE CLOSET: FOR YEARS THE NEW JERSEY ERNOR HID THAT HE'S GAY. THEN HE RIGNED AMID A FLURRY OF SNDALS. A BEHD-THE-SCEN LOOK AT HOW HIS DOUBLE LIFE CLOUD HIS JUDGMENT.
- WHERE ‘GAY AMERIN’ JIM MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS ON
- KEV SPACEY IS NOT THE FIRST GAY MAN TO WEAPONIZE COMG OUT
- CALL ON GAY ERNOR TO QU CATHOLIC GROUP US
- FIRST OPENLY GAY GOV. JIM MCGREEVEY WANTS TO BEE A PRIT
JIM MCGREEVEY: CSHED BY THE CLOSET: FOR YEARS THE NEW JERSEY ERNOR HID THAT HE'S GAY. THEN HE RIGNED AMID A FLURRY OF SNDALS. A BEHD-THE-SCEN LOOK AT HOW HIS DOUBLE LIFE CLOUD HIS JUDGMENT.
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His gay love affair, if that's what was, was simply the proverbial straw that broke the back of his beleaguered his nfsnal Augt 12 prs nference, McGreevey had been a textbook closet se, leadg a double life that ultimately proved stctive.
-based gay advocy group Human Rights Campaign: "The dangers of the closet are te regardls of who we are, regardls of occupatn or fay circumstanc. "Other than the ernor himself, the person most hurt by McGreevey's li is his wife, Da Mat McGreevey, who had llapsed tears jt three days before her hband's prs nference upon learng he was gay.
WHERE ‘GAY AMERIN’ JIM MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS ON
GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Prs TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Ten years after he announced that he was a "gay Amerin" and would rign om office after a sndal… * jim mcgreevey gay *
He swiftly evolved to an amb polician--a morate Democrat--who thrived on what pot he realized he was gay is unclear--perhaps even to the ernor himself--but his sire to succeed as a polician led him to hi his sexualy, a moral promise that praged his eventual undog. One pany termated his employment after 30 days, has been reported, bee Cipel often didn't bother to show up for spotlight on Cipel only fueled whispers that McGreevey was gay.
And he seemed nsistent on gay rights, opposg marriage equaly while signg a sweepg domtic-partnership bill to law.
KEV SPACEY IS NOT THE FIRST GAY MAN TO WEAPONIZE COMG OUT
By g out rponse to allegatns of sexual misnduct, Spacey jos other powerful men who have ployed gay inty to protect themselv, often at the expense of other LGBT people. * jim mcgreevey gay *
Reporters had a field day wh McGreevey's mistak, and the gay mors spread.
CALL ON GAY ERNOR TO QU CATHOLIC GROUP US
Sen. Larry Craig Sndal Remds Ex-Wife Of N.J.'s Gay Former Governor Of Her Own Oral * jim mcgreevey gay *
He lled Daniel Zgale, an openly gay California polil nsultant and former ai to Gov.
Zgale says he "raised the qutn whether would not be better to addrs the personal issu that [McGreevey] was termed to take rponsibily for that day separately" rather than givg the appearance that the ernor was steppg down bee he's gay. "I am absolutely nfint that the people of New Jersey would not want to remove him om his job for beg gay, " Zgale nclus.
FIRST OPENLY GAY GOV. JIM MCGREEVEY WANTS TO BEE A PRIT
McGreevey's nstuents the gay bars along the Jersey ast agree wh Zgale. In the gay mec of Asbury Park at least, speculatn about McGreevey's sexualy apparently stretch back to when he was mayor of while they've been among the first to share McGreevey stori, jok, and speculatn wh a nod and a wk, many New Jersey gays still stand behd their ernor.