Chrystie's Coming Out Of The Closet

Back in 2008 a nasty rumor about the Democratic candidate for president surfaced from Chicago. The mainstream media avoided publishing a report of crack, sex, and politics. Lesser outlets ran with the story of Duluth man's sordid encounter with Barack Obama in 1999. Mr. Sinclair asserted that the two men had used coke and crack in a limousine, then had oral sex. I didn't believe the claim, but I'm no quitter and said, "Everyone has to burst a little steam every once in a while."

Secondly getting fellated is not sex according to ex-President Bill Clinton.

But little this side of abortion gets the GOP faithful fired up more than gay people seeking normalcy.

New Jersey's Chris Chrystie has remained in the running for the GOP candidate for president of the USA, despite the Governor having a single-digit positive rating with Republican voters and the governor has repeatedly swung hard to the right to gain more traction for his flagging campaign.

While his stance on gay rights has earned him the anger of his constituents and he disagrees with Supreme Court on their epic decision, He admits that gay marriage is law of land in New Jersey, but counters it by saying "If my kids were gay, I'd give them a hug; but no marriage."

His comment didn't fly high with the Lesbian and Gay communities and neither did his statement "Homosexuality is not a sin; people are born that way."

Faced with no change in his popularity, stopping being straight might be more provident for the Governor, although I'm not sure he could find a partner.

But it's said there's a fish in the sea for everyone.

Maybe even me.

Nyet Gay In Rodina

The Russian criminal code of 1832 made the act of "muzhelozhstvo" or men lying with men a crime punishable by exile to Siberia for up to 5 years according the Wikipedia. The police rarely arrested men for this crime against nature, since the hunger that dare not speak its name was reserved for the upper classes of Tsarist Russia, however homophobia has been deeply engrained into the national psyche and a third of the population think that homosexuals should be executed and another third call for their exclusion from society. That draconian attitude had slightly improved since the collapse of the USSR, but a gay men or boy are regularly persecuted by their countrymen.

According to www.pinknews.co.uk a Moscow teenager recently escaped from a rehab clinic after his traditionalist father locked him up after he came out to him aged 16.

“I’d rather have you disabled or a vegetable than gay,” the father told the son according to local Ekho Moskvy radio.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

The situation has worsened under Boris Putin.

In 2009 I attended a gay protest in Moscow. Thousands of cops encircled the Kremlin to prevent any demonstrations before the Tsarist palace. Two hundred protestors shouted out slogans. The police dragged the more boisterous into vans. The cops' grim faces promised more disorder.

I retreated from the chaos and sought sanctuary in the baroque confines of Sandunovskye Bani.

I disrobed and entered the heated chambers of the famed banya naked. Straight men were beating each other with oak branches for their health. None of them were ashamed by this act of S&M, then again hypocrisy is the more profound blindness and there is nothing more relaxing that a good whipping.