If a closeted politician or religious leader is too outrageous in his condemnation of homosexuality, he may well find himself in the daily paper or headlining the six o’clock news. The public has developed an increasing appetite for private details in public lives, and the press are no longer sticklers for convention. Larry Craig in graphic detail) muckraking BlogActive blogger Mike Rogers, journalist and author, Michelangelo Signorile, and many more. The film features interviews with former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff (who tells the story of how he met FOX News anchor Shepard Smith in a gay bar) David Phillips, the DC IT technologist who tells his story about sleeping with Sen.

“Traitors to their people” is how one person in “Outrage” describes politicians who live gay lives in secret while campaigning and voting against gay rights in public. “Outrage” makes the argument that when they take positions harmful to millions of gay people, it’s unacceptable to let them stay in the closet. It’s long been considered socially unacceptable to “out” closeted gay politicians. “Outrage,” a new documentary from filmmaker Kirby Dick, takes issue with the secret lives of closeted gay politicians–especially conservative Republicans who outwardly oppose gay rights. Posted by Censor Librorum on | Categories: Arts & Letters, History, Lesbians & Gays, Politics, Scandalsĭoes anyone, infamous or not, deserve to be outed? Do they have the right to privacy, but not a right to hypocrisy,” as openly gay Rep.

The American Pope by John Cooney