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Do we know for sure that Guest is homosexual, or is that just what certain Romanians have charged? I'm trying to find info on the guy, and this is from the White House in June: Michael E. Guest, of South Carolina, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Romania.

More bio on Guest: The President intends to nominate Michael E. Guest to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Romania. As a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, he is presently the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs. From 1996 to 1999, he served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Prague. Guest has held several posts in Washington including as Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of State and Political-Military Officer in the Office of European Security and Political Affairs and has completed overseas assignments in Paris, Moscow and Hong Kong. Originally from South Carolina, he is a graduate of Furman University and received a Master's degree from the University of Virginia. source.

I've answered my own question:

Last week, Secretary of State Colin Powell presided over the swearing in of Michael Guest, an openly gay man, as U.S. Ambassador to Romania. Guest, a career foreign service officer, won easy confirmation from the Senate last month. At the ceremony, Secretary Powell acknowledged Guest's domestic partner of six years, teacher Alex Nevarez, who plans to join Guest in Bucharest.

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