Sheesh.
It’s almost not even worth reporting these days. We’re all so desensitized to it by now. Another week, another right-winger’s winger in the news. Republican Florida Rep. Bob Allen was found guilty by jury of soliciting sex in a public restroom.
We blogged about it when the Florida gay for pay scandal first broke. He offered the cop 20 bucks for a bee-j. Not to receive one but to give. Doesn’t sound queer at all to me. Naaaaah.
But, we know this drill. In a few days, he’ll resign, or they’ll make him resign, and he’ll be just another name, another Mark Foley, Larry Craig, another Richard Curtis, out of the headlines as quickly as the Repubs can write the check.
But I wonder, will any of this press be enough to reverse some hypocritical Legislature enforced by representatives later found to be self-hating bathroom homos? Just a thought.
Check it. Mens’ public restrooms: the new closet.
This article appears in November 9 • 2007.