Former state Rep. Glen Maxey has just published the e-book Head Figure Head: The Search for the Hidden Life of Rick Perry. According to Amazon’s online listing, it’s the result of five months of Maxey’s exhaustive investigation of “rumors and stories about Perry.”
Asked to comment, Maxey forwarded the “product description”: “On June 23, 2011 a national reporter called Glen Maxey, the first and only openly gay state legislator in the history of Texas. Rick Perry was making noises about running for president, and the reporter asked about rumors that Perry possibly may have had homosexual sex. Glen had heard the rumors before but never investigated them. Now curious, Glen sent out messages to his wide network of gay and political contacts. Within hours, he received astonishing information from multiple sources. For the next five months, Glen’s life was consumed with investigating the rumors and stories about Perry. Did Rick Perry have sex with men? Read this remarkable book and decide for yourself.”
Maxey also said that he was literally uploading the paper text on Wednesday afternoon – a process he said takes 48 hours – and loading it into apps for “ibook, ipad, and Nook.” He also wrote, “Kindle has a free app download for phones … mention that LOL.”
Rumors about Perry’s sexual habits, of course, have flown around Austin for years, and his presidential run have brought them out of the woodwork once again. It doesn’t help him that as a candidate he engages in reflexive gay-bashing – most recently running a TV ad in Iowa that complains “gays can serve openly in the military.”
Plenty of people will be eager to see the results of Maxey’s efforts – and Maxey’s Facebook page is ringing off the wall.
This article appears in December 9 • 2011.
