(G)ay (O)ld (P)arty

So...Mmmm....am I missing something. I've never been a real believer in that "if you don't like gay people, it's because you're gay." I've always felt that bigotry was a more multi-faceted human failing, but perhaps I'm wrong. I mean, the republicans have routinely come out anti-gay any time they're allowed the option, and as it turns out, most of them are gay.

I mean seriously, now there's a guy in West Virginia (a junior state senator) who they have pictures of prancing around with two other guys wearing nothing but body paint. His claim is that this was all just for fun; it wasn't gay.

Let me try that again. He's naked. The other two guys? Naked as well. They're all wearing body paint. I imagine there's a strobe light in the background, perhaps some Moby playing on the hi-fi. Porcelain probably. A guy in a lime green hat blows a whistle and in walks the guys from Queer Eye.

But you know...not in a gay way.

How in the world do you hang out naked with two of your buddies dressed in body paint only and have that not be gay? That's gay. That's like, nearly the definition of gay. If you show that picture to someone and ask them, is this guy gay, the unanimous response is, "yep, that guy's gay."

So, to sum up. State Senator Randy White, Republican, husband, and father of three, is gay.