Sex, Ambition and the Politics of the Closet: A Double Life
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN and ANDREW JACOBS
Published: August 15, 2004
On July 29, Gov. James E. McGreevey walked into a banquet room at the Marriott Copley Hotel in Boston to address the Stonewall Democrats, a gay and lesbian political organization that had gathered for the Democratic National Convention.
Mr. McGreevey went right to work, sticking with his poll-tested, aiming-for-the-middle approach, attacking President Bush for supporting a constitutional ban on gay marriage, while never actually supporting gay marriage himself. He called the Bush plan "tragic" and said the president was gay-bashing.
Then Mr. McGreevey extolled his own credentials on gay rights, a domestic partnership law among them. "Couples today in New Jersey now have protection against prejudice," he said, drawing a warm, if modest, response....
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As he stood there that afternoon in Boston, his aides now say, he knew the two sides of himself were about to collide, perhaps disastrously.
He knew that the man he had had a sexual relationship with, the man he had once put on the state payroll at a six-figure salary, was considering exposing their relationship and had threatened to file a sexual harassment lawsuit. He knew, or at least suspected, his aides now concede, that he might no longer be able to compartmentalize his two worlds....
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/15/nyregion/15mcgreevey.html
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