Looks like the grand opening of a new lesbian bar.
Posted on 07/07/2004 11:39:03 AM PDT by carlo3b
IT’S OUTING SEASON! (Has Sen. Barbara Mikulski, just been outed?)Ready for the federal marriage amendment?
By Michelangelo Signorile
As the July 12 date nears for a vote on the federal marriage amendment, an outing panic has gripped Washington's political and media circles. Some gay activists have vowed to expose those closeted members of Congress who are supporting the amendment, as well as the closeted gay staffers of any member backing it. And it's not only right-wing Republicans who should be on notice. After initially indicating that she would vote against the constitutional amendment that would make gays and lesbians into second-class citizens, Sen. Barbara Mikulski's opposition to the amendment appears to have gone into the closet: Now that a vote is near, the Maryland Democrat—who is up for reelection in November—is suddenly not returning reporters' phone calls seeking her intentions on the vote, nor is she issuing any statements on the matter.
Mikulski's position on same-sex marriage isn't the only thing in her closet: The sexual orientation of the forever-unmarried 67-year-old has been an open secret for many years. But Mikulski has apparently always worried about what her working-class Democratic base in Maryland might think of her sexual orientation, making her irrationally petrified of ever discussing it (except to make heterosexual allusions).
These fears have made Mikulski less than a champion of gay rights, perhaps lest anyone think she might be gay herself. Back in the 80s, when Mikulski was first running for the Senate, the Republicans brought in as her opponent none other than the nasty anti-feminist Linda Chavez—the columnist and pundit who years later would drop out as George W. Bush's Labor Secretary nominee amid a scandal over her having paid her housekeeper off the books. During the Senate campaign, Chavez engaged in her own bit of gay-baiting, accusing Mikulski of being a "San Francisco-style Democrat" who should come "out of the closet." She also attacked Mikulski for hiring an Australian feminist academic, Teresa Mary Brennan, as a congressional aide in 1981, and went after Mikulski for supporting the Equal Rights Amendment, charging that the ERA would "open up the whole question of homosexual marriage."
It had been widely reported that Brennan, at the time of her employment, was living with Mikulski at her Fells Point home for two months. Chavez's campaign manager told reporters that in the final two weeks of the campaign, tv commercials would focus on Mikulski's relationship with Brennan. Mikulski's response was to go gaga over a hunky guy at a campaign event.
"Are you single?" the short, squat Mikulski asked a body shop owner in the crowd. "Give me a call after the election. I won't be so busy then."
(As far as I'm concerned, Mikulski opened up her private life that day, implying that she certainly had a sexual orientation, though trying to make us believe it was of the heterosexual variety.)
Mikulski won the election by a wide margin, but she learned that she'd always be gay-baited, so it was perhaps best to vote against gays. This strategy seemed to culminate in 1996 when Mikulski voted in favor of the wretched Defense of Marriage Act, incurring the wrath of gay activists. At a Barnes & Noble in Chelsea that year—promoting a mystery novel she'd co-written, called Capitol Offense—Mikulski was confronted by several gay activists and journalists, including me.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypress.com ...
Couldn't read past that point. What are they now? They have representation in government, insurance, custody battles and the right to adopt and indoctrinate children into their lifestyle choice. What more do they need? The right to pay more in taxes and b*tch that their former "marriage partner" was running around, threw him/her/it out of the house, filed for divorce and took him/her/it to the cleaners?
And you'd better believe the place clears out when Barbara Mikulski shows up for a swim!
Now cut that out!
I imagine that Orrin Hatch or Trent Lott would have a similar bipartisan impact...
She's a MAN, baby!
We appear not to be a country of laws any longer.
Somebody thinks shes HOT... Think about it YIKES!!!{{{{{SHIVERS}}}}}
Looks like the grand opening of a new lesbian bar.
ROTFLMAO! Just what every woman desires! To be described as short and SQUAT!
Mr. Specter may have some staffer issues too.
still on the server...
I lived in MD in that election and voted against her, athough I was a registered Dem at the time. I didn't remember that it was Chavez who ran against her. I just always assumed that Mikulski was a lesbian. I didn't realize that it was a not well-known fact.
On behalf of toads worldwide, I demand a retraction and an apology.
Barb, Hilary and friends enjoy the Indigo Girls at TRIBE-AID'04
Verily, did she ever have an hetero option? Wouldn't some male have to volunteer to prove her hetero bona fides?
I nominate the author, Michelangelo Signorile, to prove that Barbara is hetero. Go ahead Mike, and tell us all about it.
Let me see if I understand them. They are going to fight the stigma of homosexuality (it ought to be a stigma) by plastering certain people that bug them with the stigma of homosexuality?
A person whether male or female would have to be sick in the head to even think of doing anything with that troll.
Babes.
I remember seeing her election posters on the highways of maryland, and I used to think how in the world can she be elected for anything ,she has always BEEN UGLY ,they used to call her ,and some other fellow back there rubber lips ,they both flopped and spitted at the same time.
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