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HE WOULD GET AN APPOINTMEN TO CRIST'S ADMINISTRATION

AND THAT HE HAD HOPED

TO CONTINUE THE RELATIONSHIP.

I FELT THAT THIS SOURCE

WAS COMPLETELY EARNES AND HONEST.

SO I DECIDED I WAS GOING

TO GO SEE JASON WETHERINGTON.

HE WAS VERY, VERY UNCOMFORTABLE

WITH THE LINE OF QUESTIONING.

THAT WAS OBVIOUS.

HE INITIALLY SAID

THAT HE HADN'T SAID THA AT THE DINNER PARTY.

THEN HE HEDGED:

THAT A BIT.

"WELL, YOU KNOW,

I MIGHT HAVE BEEN DRINKING."

THAT KIND OF THING.

HE WAS EXTREMELY UPSE AND JUST SAID,

"DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO."

Radio host:

I know you've addressed

this question

once or twice before--

the whisper campaign

by your opponents

about whether

or not you're gay.

Now I don't care

whether you are or not--

( Crist speaking )

Host:

It's fine.

Norman:

AND THEN I GO ANOTHER PHONE CALL.

IT WAS FROM ANOTHER FRIEND

OF JASON WETHERINGTON'S.

Source #2:

THERE WAS A DINNER PARTY

THAT WAS HELD AT MY HOME

AND JASON WAS AT THE PARTY.

HE BEGAN TO ALLUDE

THAT THERE WAS A RELATIONSHIP

BETWEEN CRIST AND HIM

AND THAT IT WAS PHYSICAL.

NOW I'VE GOT TWO SOURCES

WHO ARE SAYING:

THE EXACT SAME THING

WHO DON'T KNOW

EACH OTHER.

IT WAS REVEALED:

THAT NIGH THAT HE-- THAT CRIS DID HAVE A PARTNER

OR THERE WAS ANOTHER MAN

IN HIS LIFE.

IT WAS BRUCE:

CARLTON JORDAN.

HE WAS FRIENDS:

WITH JAY VASS,

A VETERAN:

REPUBLICAN PILO AND JAY VASS'S GIRLFRIEND

DEE DEE HALL.

Woman:

...the sworn statement

you give

will be the truth,

the whole truth

- and nothing but the truth,

so help you God?

- Yes.

Man:

Do you know a gentleman

by the name of Bruce Jordan?

Yes, I do.

Did he tell you

that he was gay?

Yes. He brought up

the fact

that he was

in a relationship...

that he was involved

with Charlie.

I was like, "Okay."

He just stated his first name.

And he said,

"Maybe you've heard of him."

He said, "It's Charlie Crist."

Norman:

I CONTACTED CHARLIE

ON THE PHONE:

AND ASKED HIM DIRECTLY

ABOUT JASON WETHERINGTON

AND, UH...

AND BRUCE CARLTON JORDAN.

CHARLIE VERY SMOOTHLY

DENIED THAT HE KNEW

OR REMEMBERED KNOWING

EITHER ONE OF THESE PEOPLE.

The Governor-elect

of the State of Florida--

Charlie Crist!

( audience cheering )

Reporter:

Nearly 4,000 children are

waiting to be adopted

in Florida, but the state is

still turning away couples

looking to adopt.

Why?

Because they're gay.

Frank Gill is a gay

foster parent

who wants

to make it permanent.

Gill and his partner

have been foster parents

for four years

to these two boys,

now four and eight

years old.

They were neglected

and abandoned by their

birth parents.

Florida's the only state

in the country that

bans gay adoption.

Governor Charlie Crist has

supported the prohibition

on gay adoption

and tells "The Herald" he has

"no second thoughts" on that.

WELCOME BACK.

I'M MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE

ON SIRIUS OUTQ 109.

MIKE ROGERS,

THE MOST FEARED MAN

ON CAPITOL HILL:

ACCORDING TO:

"THE WASHINGTON POST,"

IS NOW HERE IN THE STUDIO.

HE IS THE MAN WHO GO THE BALL ROLLING

ON LARRY CRAIG:

THE SENATOR FROM IDAHO.

- WELCOME TO THE SHOW.

- I HEARD YOU'RE GAY.

- ( all laugh )

- ARE YOU GONNA OUT ME NOW?

THAT'S WHAT THEY SAY.

THIS IS ALWAYS A QUESTION

THAT PEOPLE PUT OUT THERE:

ARE YOU ONLY FOCUSED

ON REPUBLICANS:

OR ARE THERE CLOSETED

DEMOCRATS DOING DAMAGE

AND HOW COME THEY'RE

NOT BEING EXPOSED?

WHAT I TELL FOLKS

IS THE REASON THAT 90%

OF THE CASES OR SO

ARE REPUBLICANS:

SAYS A LOT MORE:

ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

THAN IT DOES MY WORK.

AND WHAT WE'RE SHOWING

IS IT'S THE CLOSET.

IT'S NOT HOMOSEXUALITY.

IT'S THE CLOSET THA BREEDS THAT KIND OF--

- AND THE CLOSET OF HYPOCRISY.

- ABSOLUTELY.

AND IT HAS GIVEN A LO OF CREDIBILITY TO THE WORK

YOU BEGAN A DECADE AGO.

Signorile:

I WENT TO JOURNALISM SCHOOL,

LEFT, THOUGHT I WAS

GONNA GET THIS GREA SERIOUS NEWS JOB,

AND WOUND UP WORKING

FOR A P.R. FIRM

THAT SPECIALIZED

IN GOSSIP.

AND IT WAS IN THAT WORLD,

IN THE '80s,

THAT I SAW HOW:

THE GOSSIP WORLD

WOULD GLAMORIZE:

HETEROSEXUALITY,

BUT ANYTHING ABOU ANY CELEBRITY

WHO WAS SECRETLY GAY,

WE WOULD HELP THEM COVER.

IT WAS THE ONE AREA WHERE

THEY DIDN'T DEMAND THE TRUTH.

EVERYWHERE ELSE, THEY WANTED

TO KNOW WHO WAS DATING WHO,

BUT WHEN IT CAME

TO GAY CELEBRITIES,

IT WAS ACCEPTED AND UNDERSTOOD

THAT YOU COVERED FOR THEM

AND YOU ACTUALLY

PUT OUT LIES.

I STARTED TO WRITE A COLUMN

CALLED "GOSSIP WATCH."

IT WAS A WATCH:

OF THE GOSSIP COLUMNS.

IT WAS A LOOK AT HOW

THE GOSSIP COLUMNS,

WHICH ARE READ:

BY MORE PEOPLE:

THAN ANY OTHER FORUM

IN THE MEDIA,

ARE COMPLETELY:

CONSTRUCTED AND CREATED

TO GLAMORIZE:

HETEROSEXUALITY:

AND KEEP HOMOSEXUALITY

INVISIBLE.

IN 1990 MALCOLM FORBES,

THE MULTIMILLIONAIRE PUBLISHER

OF "FORBES" MAGAZINE,

DIED AND THE MEDIA

IMMEDIATELY,

IN ALL OF HIS:

OBITUARIES,

HELD HIM UP AS:

A VERY SUCCESSFUL CAPITALIS WHO WAS DATING

ELIZABETH TAYLOR FOR YEARS.

AND YET, THEY LEFT OU THE FACT THAT HE WAS GAY.

IT TOOK YEARS,

IN FACT,

FOR "THE NEW YORK TIMES"

TO FINALLY SAY THA MALCOLM FORBES WAS GAY.

I FELT THA THE HISTORICAL RECORD

HAD TO BE CORRECTED

IMMEDIATELY.

Correspondent:

Michelangelo Signorile

is his name.

He's the one who outed

Malcolm Forbes after

his death,

writing that Forbes,

the very symbol of

establishment capitalism,

secretly was gay.

I'm certainly not doing

anything wrong. I think

in 20 years from now,

we're gonna look back

and say, "What the hell was

the big deal about?"

WELCOME BACK.

11 MINUTES BEFORE THE HOUR,

I'M MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE.

I'M HERE WITH MIKE ROGERS

IN STUDIO AND WE'RE

TAKING YOUR CALLS.

YOU'RE ON "THE MICHELANGELO

SIGNORILE SHOW."

Man on phone:

What happens when

you guys expose

all of the closeted people

in the conservative movement?

You get all

the hypocrites out of there,

what have you got left

but just

the solid non-hypocritical

festival of hate?

IT'S A FAIR QUESTION.

MIKE, WHAT DO YOU THINK?

THANKS FOR THAT, GREG.

IN MOST CASES WHEN SOMEBODY

IS REPORTED ON, THEY BECOME

A PRO-GAY LEGISLATOR.

BUT "IS THERE A BACKLASH?"

WHICH IS WHAT HE'S ASKING.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LEAVE

JUST THIS CORE OF HATE?

WELL, BARNEY FRANK

PUTS IT BEST:

"THE REASON PEOPLE HATE

GAY PEOPLE IS BECAUSE THEIR

LEADERS TELL THEM TO."

I THINK THAT EACH ONE

OF THESE OUTINGS

PUTS A LITTLE CHINK

IN THE ARMOR:

OF THE ANTI-GAY SO-CALLED

"FAMILY VALUES" MOVEMENT.

I, RONALD REAGAN,

DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR...

"THAT I WILL

FAITHFULLY EXECUTE

THE OFFICE OF PRESIDEN OF THE UNITED STATES."

...THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY

EXECUTE THE OFFICE

OF PRESIDEN OF THE UNITED STATES.

Larry Gross:

THE ELECTION OF:

RONALD REAGAN BROUGHT US

A FAIRLY LARGE NUMBER

OF HIGH-PLACED

BUT CLOSETED GAY MEN

IN THE REPUBLICAN

ADMINISTRATION:

WHO FAILED:

TO ADEQUATELY ADDRESS

THE EPIDEMIC OF AIDS.

THE PRESIDEN OF THE UNITED STATES

WOULD NOT EVEN SAY

THE WORD "AIDS" PUBLICALLY

AS LATE AS 1987.

Rodger McFarlane:

REAGAN HAD BEEN ELECTED

ON THIS FUNDAMENTALIS CONSERVATIVE ROLE IN AMERICA

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