A friend writes:
My own Golan Cipel has kept me in stitches for the last 35 years. Over breakfast he alluded
to the Newsweek article on Jim McGreevey, “Gov. McGreevey’s affair to forget.” He said it should have
been subtitled: “The Down Low — It’s Not Just a Black Thing Anymore.” [See the Down low blues or J.L. King’s
“On the Down
Low.”]
By the way, the first “standing [different strokes] governor” to come out of the closet is not
McGreevey, but WAS Lord Cornberry, Governor of East and West Jersey and New York, circa
the late 1600s. A major flamer. Used to run around the mansion in drag all day. My late friend,
actor Anthony Holland, and playwright Bill Hoffman even wrote a play about him. I saw a staged
reading of it at New York’s Public Theatre, slightly before the invention of moveable type.
Okay … if you want to get technical about it, we were STILL the colonies, and Cornberry
was never actually IN the closet. But as the young folk say, attention should be
paid.
Which says it all.
Except for this from Al Jazeera: Was McGreevey ‘sex scandal’ an Israeli Intelligence
operation?! That theory is the LOL brainchild of Andy
Martin, a self-described Republican “good guy” candidate for the U.S. Senate
from Florida.
