Usually gay people are a little more graceful.
How come we haven't heard form any of Kerry's old school chums? What a great guy he was at boarding school and what not? Couldn't be because he was Dorkiest Gay Boy O' the Year every year could it?
"Kerry didn't leave boarding school a popular man. Forty-two years after the fact, many of his classmates still mock him. They chide him for being a teachers' pet and a selfish hockey player. ("What you need to remember," says Macdonald, "is that John never passed [the puck].") In fact, they dislike him so much that they've frequently helped his political opponents."