George W. Bush’s Gay Underground
He came up with at least 70 (only two of them women). That number—and after speaking with two dozen sources I have no doubt it was an incomplete tally—has surprised almost everyone I’ve told. Alberto Gonzales, the former Bush White House counsel and attorney general, for example, says he never knew dozens of gays had served on the White House staff. “I don’t think I could identify more than one or two,” he told me. “It was just something that we didn’t talk about.”…
Scott Evertz was Bush’s openly gay AIDS czar. He told me he was entirely unaware he had company. “I, of course—just by the law of statistics—knew that there were other gay people in the White House,” he says. “But not a single one of them was out to me, so I felt completely alone.”…
Evertz says Bush’s political guru, Karl Rove, for a time would only give him clearance for public appearances if he promised not to be billed as the first openly gay appointee in a Republican administration. With the politics swirling, Israel Hernandez, a deputy assistant to the president, came into Evertz’s office and gave him a hug. Evertz was sure Rove had sent him as a nice gesture. It was only much later that Evertz learned Hernandez, who had been with Bush since serving as his driver and personal aide in the early 1990s, was gay. The hug had been a quiet statement of support from a member of the White House’s gay underground.
“Did we have a lot of people in the closet in the administration?” says one former senior official in the Bush White House whose office included at least three gay staffers. “I used to say we had an entire warehouse.”
A “warehouse” of people who worked against the very nature of who these people are.
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Obewon June 27th, 2014 at 19:29
So many knew GOPUSA & Talon News faux WH reporter Jeff Gannon/J.D.Guckert, RNC Chair & GWB 2004 reelection Chairman Ken Mehlman, and many of the Rove cabal are self hating GOP gays. Well that explains why 80% of homophobes are most aroused by their same sex. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-big-questions/201106/homophobic-men-most-aroused-gay-male-porn Next-up: Bob Wass comes out.
Obewon June 27th, 2014 at 19:29
So many knew GOPUSA & Talon News faux WH reporter Jeff Gannon/J.D.Guckert, RNC Chair/GWB 2004 reelection Chairman Ken Mehlman, and many of the Rove cabal are self hating GOP gays. Well that explains why 80% of homophobes are most aroused by their same sex. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-big-questions/201106/homophobic-men-most-aroused-gay-male-porn Next-up: Bob Wass comes out.
Eric Trommater June 27th, 2014 at 22:15
Imagine the MaCarthy like purity witch hunt a story like this is going to set off in the next GOP administration . . . . just kidding!
Look I know conservitive staffer who work side by side with people they know are gay and have no problem with it.
They explain that the issue isn’t about gay people being icky it’s about some vague slippery slope or something (that ends up with Thad Cochran doing horrible things to animals and being able to come out about it and still win his nomination).
I know GOP staffers who are gay and see no hypocricy in it because they are so deluded that they think the Conservitives are merely using the issue to keep the support of their base for other issue that these gay GOP staffers believe.
What it really is about is a class issue. Gay conservitives seem to look at themselves as being above the rules their party wants to set down for the rest of America . I can’t read minds so this is a presumtion based on their indifferent attitude when asked about.
Eric Trommater June 27th, 2014 at 22:15
Imagine the MaCarthy like purity witch hunt a story like this is going to set off in the next GOP administration . . . . just kidding!
Look I know conservitive staffer who work side by side with people they know are gay and have no problem with it.
They explain that the issue isn’t about gay people being icky it’s about some vague slippery slope or something (that ends up with Thad Cochran doing horrible things to animals and being able to come out about it and still win his nomination).
I know GOP staffers who are gay and see no hypocricy in it because they are so deluded that they think the Conservitives are merely using the issue to keep the support of their base for other issue that these gay GOP staffers support.
What it really is about is a class issue. Gay conservitives seem to look at themselves as being above the rules their party wants to set down for the rest of America . I can’t read minds so this is a presumtion based on their indifferent attitude when asked about it.
AnthonyLook June 28th, 2014 at 17:38
So for job security, money, job references purposes…; these 70 plus gay staffers sold the gay community out?
AnthonyLook June 28th, 2014 at 17:38
So for job security, money, job references purposes…; these 70 plus gay staffers sold the gay community out?
Sage June 29th, 2014 at 10:41
If only we had the names of these creatures, other than bush and rove that is.
Sage June 29th, 2014 at 10:41
If only we had the names of these creatures, other than bush and rove that is.
CarolAST June 30th, 2014 at 08:57
How many government agencies are there whose purpose is to persecute gays? Zero. And how many government agencies are there whose purpose is to persecute SMOKERS? The real oppressed minority. Just wait for the hateful comments…
CarolAST June 30th, 2014 at 08:57
How many government agencies are there whose purpose is to persecute gays? Zero. And how many government agencies are there whose purpose is to persecute SMOKERS? The real oppressed minority. Just wait for the hateful comments…