Idahomosexual Public Service

As a public service to those people who are straight or gay or NOT GAY, NOT GAY, NOT GAY, who may be dramatically impaired, I offer you my reading of the police report from the incident in which the NOT GAY conservative Senator from the great state of Idaho was arrested for playing NOT GAY footsie with an undercover cop. Though I am NOT GAY myself, I was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor In A Musical and feel that that does qualify me as an honorary gay, so I hope my performance does justice to these excerpts of the hottest gayest police report EVER written about a NOT GAY Senator who is CONSERVATIVE and doesn't like gay stuff because he is NOT GAY and was just trying to pick up an invisible piece of paper in the hottest gay action men's room from here to The Stonewall.

Listen here:

Comments

[ReadALot]

Sad. After all that toe-tapping and hand waving the NOT GAY Senator didn't even get a taste of what he was after. Ah! The many disappointments in life.

[raker]

I think the family-values senator would quibble over the meaning of the word "gay." Someone has to ask him, are you a homosexual. No. Do you have sex with men? You're getting warmer. Do men have sex with you? No comment.

[unpoetaloco]

I have no doubt that Craid does not consider himself gay. To many men, the label "gay" is replete with connotations that they honestly do not believe describe them. "Gay" to them is a lifestyle.

There is a paucity in our language to describe the broad spectrum of sexual identities that exist. For many men like Craig, who participate in gay sex, if they have to choose "gay" or "straight," they will choose "straight."

I call them "strays," for two reasons: 1) it's a hybrid of straight and gay, and 2) a stray is someone who deviates from the pack.

Whatever Craig considers himself, he's a louse and a fraud, and he's living in a hell of his own making.

[ChinaCat]

"Strays..."

Perfect! Beautiful!

[queertodaydotcom]

That is why its best to refer as "men who have sex with men" or MSM as we say in the safer sex education community.

[balleryna2]

Do you think that he'd have a problem with his sexuality if he'd stop calling himself / acting like a conservative? In other words, if he were liberal, no one would care - because liberals care more about being who you are (i.e. gay, straight, tranny, whatever).

But the conservatives believe that every male on the planet should be white, christian, and militant about it. That's what the hell is wrong with Larry Craig - and that's why he's living in his own private Idaho.

[queertodaydotcom]

Doesn't the whole notion that we have police pretending to be gay so they can arrest gay people for their assumed intentions of having sex sound a little absurd to anyone?

Is it not relevant to reflect upon and draw connections to the countless stories we hear time and time again of homophobic harassment and brutality from police towards queer people? At what point do we need to be afraid of making extended eye contact with another man?

Why express horror at the fact that some members of our community get off in bathrooms or in parks? Why does it terrify some people so much? What harm has it done to anyone physically or psychologically?

Most men who cruise for sex with other men do it discreetly with no intention of getting caught or disturbing others. That is why airport cruisers often use luggage (as CNN reported is even written in the Craig police report) to block view of their actions. And it is why they cruise late at night in secluded park areas. Some of the cruisers are closeted gay men, some are bisexual, some are trans or genderqueer, and others are openly gay men - all who enjoy anonymous public sex.

Why can't an airport staff person simply knock on the door if two men are having sex too loudly or occupying a stall for too long? Why do we need police to trick men into thinking they are cruising them?

It is my belief that encouraging a strong and negative social stigma around the notion of public sex environments and cruising encourages a more homophobic and sexphobic society which makes it more difficult to spread quality trustworthy safer sex information.

[JimR]

You have got to be kidding me. This is not about gay rights. People are free to have consensual relations, but not in public places which children also use.

[godlessclif]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080569/
Craig is a long way from the culprit in the movie Cruising. And the "Oh the children" excuse is hardly a defense for police entrapment in a public toilet.

[Adirondacker]

Or public places were adults can see them.

While I like seeing a hot cocksucker go down, especially if he is good looking... Larry Craig... EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[xenubarb]

You don't have children, do you?
Otherwise I'd think you would have some concerns about public bathrooms being "hot gay sex" sites.

What if your 13 year old son were sitting on the can, listening to his iPod and rocking out by tapping his foot in time to the music?

Public sex is creepy. People don't want to encounter it. I wouldn't necessarily arrest those cruising for anonymous fun, but I sure would ban them from the premises.

If not for the cops, the problem would become unmanageable. It's not just "gays," either. It's men in general. A surprising number of "heterosexual" family men aren't adverse to a little man-on-man action. Give 'em an inch, and...oh, I ain't going there!

[queertodaydotcom]

He woudl be in his own locked stall - these men are not rapists or pedophiles. Your son would probly not know he was being cruised, and if the man cruising him saw he was a child he would stop.

And hopefully your 13 year old knows what to look out for as far as predators go - which men who cruise for sex with other men are not.

Remember, Craig was arrested for a little tap tap and wave. That's it. I don't see cops in bathrooms arresting straight people for their "intent" to have sex.

Who is to say that two teens making out on a bench in public do nto intend to have sex in public? Shoudl we arrest them because they are making signals that indicate they want to have sex? LEWD sex?

[IncredulousGeezer]

Not quite so simple.
While gay mens cruising and hooking up may fall into the category of victimless crimes (solicitation of sex involving principals of either sex is generally illegal), there is an element of fear about involvement of minors, where clearly there are victims, that clouds the issue.
It would be of interest to know how the ordinances under which the vice police operate are written.

[godlessclif]

It does not matter how the laws are written, it is the chain of command that matters. If the police captain is a phobe the police get their quota of "gays" as ordered.

[Nuzzy]

If your point is that society and the police should not concern themselves with homosexual activity in general, then I would emphatically agree. Sexual activity should be private unless ALL who are participating OR observing agree otherwise.

But if your point is that there is no societal interest in having police deter and even arrest those who engage in sexual acts in public places -- regardless of whether it's homo- OR heterosexual -- then you simply are wrong. One's sexual urges do not give one license to inflict them (actively or passively) on non-consenting others.

[queertodaydotcom]

Cruising is consensual. And usually takes place late late at night in the bushes. Yet police still go into those parks in disguise and arrest the men, and sometimes burn down those bushes.

This kind of arrest sets the precedent to arrest anyone who indicates taht they MIGHT want to have public sex. Now that's scary. it makes me afraid to have extended eye contact with hot guys, or to makeout with myboyfriend on a bench int he park for example.

[godlessclif]

So you would arrest newlyweds who got it on while in line for a license, The only time I saw that happen they got applause. What kind of puritan are you.

[MagisterLudi]

"Why do we need police to trick men into thinking they are cruising them?"

To arrest them for illegal and disgusting behavior.

I hope queercom is not serious that we look with a kindly eye to public restroom sex.
I certainly don't want to go to the bathroom to take a crap just to hear two homotesticles huffing and puffing in the next stall.
I'd call police on the spot.

[misteruml]

Bravo! Bravo! This could be a whole new career for you!

[Rule Of Law]

The man plead guilty! No one forced him. For once the Republicans are getting right on this thing (oow, that doesn't sound right...)

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent

McCain spoke out in an interview with CNN. "My opinion is that when you plead guilty to a crime, you shouldn't serve. That's not a moral stand. That's not a holier-than-thou. It's just a factual situation."

So how does Mr. McCain feel about a President AND a Vice President both with multiple DUIs???

The hypocrisy never ends.