Reply #12: Terry Dolan was just the tip of a homophobic iceberg

[kweerwolf]

Don't forget J. (for "Jane") Edgar Hoover who, after a long day at the office investigating the sex lives of just about everyone, would go home and chug the weinie of his second-in-command at the FBI, Clyde Tolson.

Then there was Roy Cohn who, after working for just about any right-wing cause or candidate, would go to Providence and chug just about everyone's weinie.

Politics has always been viewed by some as a macho profession. Some of the closeted gay men who have gone into politics adopt these ultra-masculine personas thinking they are covering themselves. It's similar to sports. I dated for a while a former pro soccer player. While he can admit to being a gay man, he's still got many areas of his life in which he remains closeted and hides his self-loathing behind a dependence on booze.

It's really sad ... but every time I hear some macho guy take a really anti-gay stance, it reminds me of the line from Shakespeare: "Methinks she doth protest too much."