Tag Archives: outing

FRANCE: Vice President Of Neo-Nazi National Front Party Outed As Gay

Via the Telegraph: A French gossip magazine sparked outrage across the political spectrum on Friday by “outing” the far-Right Front National’s vice president, Florian Philippot, as homosexual. The rare breach of Gallic press protocol is an embarrassment for the FN, whose attitude towards homosexuals has historically ranged from ambivalent to downright homophobic. Closer, which scored a global scoop in January …

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Peter Tatchell On Outing Whitney Houston

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WaPo Profiles Signorile & Griffin

The Washington Post today published a lengthy profile of SiriusXM radio host Michelangelo Signorile and Human Rights Campaign head Chad Griffin. Here’s a setup: In 2004, 38 percent of respondents supported same-sex marriage, according to a Washington Post-ABC poll. Ten years later: 59 percent. And today, only a decade after Massachusetts ushered in same-sex marriage, Freedom to Marry says that …

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CNBC Host Casually Outs Apple CEO Tim Cook, Panel Reacts With Awkward Silence

That Apple CEO Tim Cook is gay isn’t exactly a secret – after all, he’s regularly listed at the top of Out Magazine‘s annual list of the “Most Powerful Gays” in America. Still, there was some awkward silence today on CNBC after one of the panelists casually dropped Cook’s name as one of the nation’s gay CEOs. Valleywag weighs in: …

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Mike Rogers On Aaron Schock

“I think outing is so, so 2004 at this point. So 2008. Anybody who knows Aaron Schock, anybody who has half of a brain cell, knows he’s gay. I’m kind of out of the business. For me, it’s like—big deal. That’s how I looked at it. The people who care might get a mailing with the Huffington Post article about …

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Schock Makes Instagram Account Private

A few days ago John Aravosis posted an AmericaBlog column titled The 7 Gayest Aaron Schock Instagram Posts Of 2013 in which he needled Schock’s famous sense of fashion and devotion to bodybuilding. That AmericaBlog post was referenced in yesterday’s Facebook piece on Schock by CBS reporter Itay Hod. And JMG reader Michael reports that Schock today made his Instagram …

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CBS News Reporter Itay Hod: That GOP Congressman From IL Is Definitely Gay

“Here’s a hypothetical: What if you know a certain GOP congressman, let’s just say from Illinois, is gay… and you know this because one of your friends, a journalist for a reputable network, told you in no uncertain terms that he caught that GOP congressman and his male roommate in the shower… together. Now they could have been good friends …

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HomoQuotable – Tam O’Shaughnessy

“It’s scary to be open because you don’t realized the impact that it might have on so many aspects of your life. You worry about grants, about whether you’ll be able to continue writing children’s textbooks; we were scared that if sponsors knew the founders of Sally Ride Science were two lesbians, if that would affect our organization. I wanted …

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HomoQuotable – Javier Suarez Pascagaza

“We do not see [gays] as being a family or married or an integral part of the social fabric but as needing clinical, psychiatric, medical and spiritual care, if possible, to help acknowledge their condition so that they can reverse it and recover their gender identity. I don’t think God created homosexuals. That would be an evil God.” – Colombia’s …

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New York Times Slams Gawker For Hunting Down Shepard Smith’s Boyfriend

David Carr writes at the New York Times: What if Gawker tried to out an anchor at Fox News and no one cared? Cue the innuendo, the salacious follow-ups and the specter of mainstream media outlets picking up the item with a pair of tweezers. Except after the post was published, there was nothing but crickets, other than a piece …

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Mike Rogers Outs Sen. John Barrasso

Outing kingpin Mike Rogers, who has an unblemished record in these things, yesterday posted the above tweet about GOP Sen. John Barrasso, who has a 15% rating from the Human Rights Campaign. Rogers has not yet expounded on his claim. Barrasso, a former Wyoming state senator, was appointed to the US Senate in 2007 after the death of GOP Sen. …

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Outing Kingpin Mike Rogers Hints At Exposing Closeted US House Member

Outing kingpin Mike Rogers, once known as “the most feared man in Washington,” is hinting that he may soon expose a closeted member of Congress. There’s a big difference between outing and reporting. I’m a reporter, I report on hypocrisy,” Rogers told U.S. News. “If I have one case that’s off, I’m out of the business, [but] I will never …

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Outed Homophobes: The Supercut

Via Towleroad, here’s a compilation of some of the most notorious homophobes who have been outed in recent years.

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Is Tea Party Wingnut Carl Paladino Behind The “Outing” Site For NY Senator?

You may recall that in 2010 Tea Party-backed whackadoodle Carl Paladino ran a brief but spectacularly ugly New York gubernatorial campaign that was laden with vicious attacks on gay people. And now it appears that Paladino may be linked to the website that has threatened to out GOP state Sen. George Mariarz. Hurrah for schoolyard politics: Paladino’s assault on Maziarz …

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NEW YORK: Anonymous Site Threatens To Out GOP State Sen. George Maziarz

An anonymous website is threatening to out New York GOP state Sen. George Maziarz, who voted against marriage equality every time it came up. The site includes a countdown clock promising to expose Mariarz in eleven days. I’ve read no rumors about Maziarz, who is married to a woman, so the site may be just a very cheap election ploy. …

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HUNGARY: Leader Of Far-Right Fascist Party Outed As Secretly Jewish

This scenario sounds all-too familiar, doesn’t it? As a rising star in Hungary’s far-right Jobbik Party, Csanad Szegedi was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews: He accused them of “buying up” the country, railed about the “Jewishness” of the political elite and claimed Jews were desecrating national symbols. Then came a revelation that knocked him off his perch as …

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HomoQuotable – Azariah Southworth

“Outing Jonathan [Merritt] was not an easy decision. I mulled it over for more than a year and discussed it with friends. Those conversations always ended in, ‘Yeah, it’s probably not a good idea.’ So, what changed my mind? I was tired of the lies. I was tired of hearing Jonathan say that being gay is not ‘God’s best.’ Meanwhile …

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Southworth: Why I Outed Jonathan Merritt

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Send A Prayergram To Outed (And Already “Ex-Gay”) Author Jonathan Merritt

This morning just outed and already “ex-gay” Christian author Jonathan Merritt presumably confessed his previous love for hot sweaty mansex before the Atlanta megachurch of his father, the former president of the Southern Baptist Convention. We’ll have to wait to hear how that went over, but today the church posted the above request for “prayergrams” in the names of Merritt …

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Outed Christian Author Jonathan Merritt: Yes, I Had Sex With Azariah Southworth
But I Swear I Am Totally Not Gay!

“In 2009, I was contacted by the blogger [Azariah Southworth] in response to an article I wrote about just that–that Christians must love people who experience sexual brokenness. We corresponded several times by email and text for a couple of weeks, some of them inappropriate. When I was traveling through a city near him, we met for dinner because we’d …

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