Calling it an accident, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has pulled down several of his campaign advertisements from the popular Web portal Gay.com. Banner ads saying “Mitt Romney for President—Vote Team Mitt!” appeared on the site at least 32,000 times in August.

Romney’s aides have told the NY Times that they didn’t know who in the campaign made the ad buy, which has been documented by the Nielsen Online AdRelevance monitoring service. The aides said Romney campaign ads are not supposed to appear on dating or “alternative lifestyle” sites.

Romney is anti-gay marriage, and was quick to rebuke Sen. Larry Craig after his gay sex foibles this summer.

Thousands of “Romney for President” ads have also appeared on FanFiction.net, a site used by those who like to write stories about their favorite fictional characters (some of which involve X-rated situations between the likes of Harry Potter and Hermione Granger).