Wash Blade interviewed "outed" staffer - who was out already anyway

The thing is, every time I feel the least built of pity for these gay staffers working for anti-gay members, they go and make these ridiculously evil statements that show how screwed up they really are. The Washington Blade interviews the first Hill staffer outed, though he wasn't really outed since he did proclaim his gayness as the centerfold in a DC gay publication 3 years ago.

Read the interview, if you can stomach it.

It's not my style to broadcast my sexual orientation, says the staffer who posed as a shirtless CENTERFOLD in a gay magazine. And all the anger focused at him is simply because he's a Republican, he claims, and not because he's working for freaking Jim Inhofe, a man who's anti-gay politics would put Jesse Helms to shame, a man who proudly ran for election on a platform of "God, gays and guns." The really troubling thing is that this is exactly same thing the other "outed" staffer said the other day - they hate me because I'm a Republican. He also said the same line you hear from other gays who work against the community - being gay is only a PART of who I am. These guys just don't get it.

One more thing, semi-closeted Congressman Mark Foley's (R-FL) former chief of staff Kirk Fordham says in the article that he never spoke with me about his former boss' being gay. That's an outright lie. I've been friends with Kirk for going on ten years now, and he's confirmed Foley's sexual orientation numerous times to me and to many many others. it's not clear why Kirk, and Foley, keep trying to obscure the congressman's sexual orientation - he's out, get over it.

Washington Blade Online:

"My bottom line is that I've never tried to hide who I am, but it isn't my style to broadcast my sexual orientation with klieg lights," [Jonathan] Tolman said. "I am getting the impression that they intend to make this as painful as possible for me simply because I am a Republican and I work for one.

"But I give my boss advice on environmental issues, not social issues. If he would ask me [about the Federal Marriage Amendment], I would say, "Don't vote for that Jim," but he hasn't."

Earth to Jonathan: Your boss would never ask your advice on the Marriage Amendment because HE ISSUED A WRITTEN STATEMENT SAYING HE'D FIRE ANY OPENLY GAY MEN WORKING ON HIS PERSONAL STAFF. Get a clue.