Wonder what Larry Sinclair thinks about this article from the controversial Matt Sanchez?

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On Wednesday the following post appeared on the popular liberal Daily Kos blog, and it received several comments — but it has since been removed:

Oh dear. Some of you may have seen that crazy guy who popped up on Youtube making ridiculous allegations about limo sex against Barack Obama. Since he first appeared, he has been doing everything possible to get noticed by the media and to my complete shock, he has actually succeeded. A TV Show in Puerto Rico called SuperXclusivo (apparently a very popular show) had a phone interview with him earlier today. I didn’t watch the whole thing but they didn’t even ask him for any evidence whatsoever for his claims. Obviously, there is a PRIMARY in Puerto Rico in a few months, so this is pretty troubling. I saw the clip on Youtube and I believe it aired later today. This is a very popular show. I am somewhat freaking out. What do you guys think? Link below the fold.

Larry Sinclair, the man who claims to have used drugs and had sex with Obama in 1999, believes the site took the post down once it was clear that it was becoming popular.

In recent days, the gay press has expressed concerns that Obama has chosen not to do interviews with members from its community.

The Puerto Rican news interview with Sinclair has yet to appear online.

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During a deposition on March 8, DNC Chairman Howard Dean took issue with reporting published in The Washington Blade, Washington, D.C.’s gay newspaper. In fact, he implies that he’s stopped reading the paper altogether.

The revelation made Kevin Naff, editor of the publication, pretty angry. Naff offered the following heated comments on Queerty over the weekend:

As the editor of the Blade, I challenge Howard Dean to specify the facts/stories the paper supposedly got wrong over the years. The DNC has NEVER called me in the past few years to say we got a fact wrong and needed to run a correction.

His disdain for the gay press is obvious in his sneering, arrogant testimony. He cannot question the paper’s credibility like this without offering some specifics.

If we got something wrong, we’ll correct it. But the DNC needs to give me specifics. Until then, it’s just more anti-gay rhetoric. I’m waiting, Mr. Dean.

Coming on the heels of all the race and gender issues being raised during this year’s Democratic campaign for president, one has to wonder if this war of words might be a sign of another fissure in the traditional Democratic Party coalition.

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Did you catch Dina Matos McGreevey on the cable news networks last week decrying the hypocrisy of former New Yorker Gov. Eliot Spitzer for hooking up with hookers? The ex-wife of Jim McGreevey must have seemed like a pretty good expert to dish on such a tawdry subject. After all, who can forget the spectacle of her standing by her man in 2004 when McGreevey resigned as New Jersey’s governor after revealing he was involved in gay relationships?

Turns, out, though, that Dina may be just as big a hypocrite.

“A former driver and aide to former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey yesterday made the bombshell claim that Dina Matos McGreevey must have always known her husband was gay - because he was the other man in bed with them,” the New York Post reports.

“She’s framed herself as a victim - yet she was a willing participant,” Teddy Pedersen, the governor’s former driver, tells the newspaper. “She had complete control over what happened in her relationship. She was there, she knew what was happening, she made the moves. We all did. It’s disgusting to watch her play the victim card.”

According to the report, “the threesomes began in the late 1990s, while Dina and Jim were dating, continued after their October 2000 marriage, and had ended by the time McGreevey was elected governor in November 2001.”

“He liked watching me, and she would watch me while she was [performing sex acts] with Jim,” Pedersen is quoted as saying. “In my opinion, me being a part of their sexual relationship enhanced it for both of them.”

Funny Dina didn’t mention any of that last week.

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From the Bilerico Project:

There was a time - not too many election cycles ago - when LGBT families were virtually invisible to politicians, and candidates sat in silence when it came time to speak out on issues important to our community or, even more importantly, when the time came to take action and expand the rights available to us.

Now, with the 2008 race for the White House, much has changed.

As Bilerico reported earlier, Senator Barack Obama recently launched an ad campaign in the LGBT media, reaching out to our community for votes as the Democratic race for the White House tightens. And on February 27, Senator Hillary Clinton sat down for an unprecedented conference call with reporters from LGBT media outlets in the critical, upcoming primary states of Texas and Ohio.

Senator Clinton’s message was clear: She wants lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans to hear directly from her . . . and she wants to take the time to talk with our community about how she will move us forward toward equality.

As the first article from Senator Clinton’s interview with reporters in Texas and Ohio notes, “The Obama campaign declined an interview” with the Gay People’s Chronicle, despite the paper “trying to get live interviews with both candidates after the Wisconsin primary on February 18.”

And while there’s no doubt that a Clinton or Obama presidency would arrive in the Oval Office as being the most pro-LGBT in American history, the courage in speaking up means something, too: Going on the record, explaining your own positions and making a personal, first-hand appeal for the support of our community leaves an impression. Read more…

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We kid you not. Some gay people who love talking politics are having long discussions centered on whether John Sebelius, the young artist son of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, is hot or not:

Jason: So, what do you think of this John S. boy? He looks very…..Kansan.
Be.Right.Back: He looks vaguely Affleck-ed
Jason: I don’t know what it is. Maybe the hair?
Be.Right.Back: The oblong proportion of the head/face? Ben A. always reminded me a little of Guy Smiley, the Muppet.
Jason: He sort of has the John Kerry chin going on. But with the young looks of that kid that played Justin on the American version of Queer As Folk. Who also has that chin.
Be.Right.Back: He has a look that is hard to separate from all the cultural norms it embodies. Hot or just young? Hot or just hygenic?
Jason: I know. He looks so scrubbed.
Be.Right.Back: Hot or just that boy I had a crush on in high school who called me fag baby to his friends? Okay, maybe that’s less…precisely “cultural.” I love that he’s doing that “my hands are a camera” thing Kirsten Dunst did all through Elizabethtown.
Jason: Oh I know. I get this little quicktime window that does nothing when I pull up his site. maybe he has a J/O video embedded or something?
Be.Right.Back: I can only hope. See? Hot or I just want to see him dirty?
Jason: So what about him is hot?
Be.Right.Back: Fantasizing about corrupting him, I think. And those pictures he drew of himself with ice cream slathered all around his mouth. So, like, he’s down. Read more…

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In response to a New York Magazine interview with FOX News anchor Shepherd Smith, Gawker Media is rehashing some old gossip that the newscaster may be a closeted homosexual.

“FOX News anchorman Shepherd Smith has lovely locks, a Southern twang and piles of rampant homosexuality rumors,” the Web site reported yesterday. “Of course, he doesn’t help matters much by saying ‘blowjob’ by accident during his live newscast…” The site then goes on to rank him as having a high probability of being gay on the infamous Kinsey Scale.

Of course, if saying blowjob is a qualification for being gay, then all the world is probably gay (hopefully!). But Smith also has that old story in his closet from Washington Blade editor-in chief Kevin Naff, who claims Shepherd once hit on him at a NYC piano bar. To our knowledge, Smith has never debunked Naff’s recollection.

Big Head DC first broke the news that Smith will anchor this weekend’s marathon Super Bowl political coverage on the cable network.

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A DNC staffer sent an e-mail to a colleague saying she lines the bottom of her birdcage with The Washington Blade, D.C.’s prominent gay newspaper. And now Kevin Naff, the Blade’s editor, responds:

I’ll take the high road — someone has to — and ignore the personal attacks. It’s astounding, though, that the DNC’s communications director has time in her day to plot revenge against the Blade.

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A relationship between former U.S. Senator David Boren and current NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is growing ever more close, and the duo are ramping up private meetings since they first rendezvoused this summer, Big Head DC has learned.

According to sources in Oklahoma, where Boren now serves as the president of the University of Oklahoma, Boren has been pushing Bloomberg “hard not to rule out the possibility” of an independent run for president. Insiders are telling us that Boren may even want to run alongside Bloomberg as a vice presidential candidate.

Bloomberg met on Monday with Boren and had dinner with over the weekend to discuss promoting bipartisanship among candidates running for president.

“It is is a message to the two parties: Please rise to the occasion,” Boren is quoted by the AP as saying about the meetings. “If you don’t, there is always a possibility out there of an independent.”

There has long been speculation that Boren yearns to get back into the political game himself, as he abruptly left his position in the U.S. Senate in 1994. He was also well-known during his fifteen years in the Senate for wanting to perhaps one day run for president himself.

But whatever prompted Boren to resign in 1994 may prevent his current Bloomberg-centric ambitions from coming to fruition. Michael Petrelis, as well as other well-known gay activists, have accused the married Boren of sexually harassing some of his male Congressional staff members and of being a closeted homosexual. Some prominent gay Washingtonians have speculated that Boren’s surprise resignation from the Senate was prompted by this revelation, which Boren is said to have denied.

Whether Bloomberg is aware of the controversies surrounding Boren’s sexuality is unknown at this point. Requests for comment from both gentlemen have gone unreturned to date. 

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The New York Post reports:

Larry Flynt won’t be sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom if Rudy Giuliani is elected president. In a Web exclusive on VanityFair.com, the Hustler publisher slams Giuliani for moving in with a gay couple after he split from Donna Hanover: “I don’t hate gays. But I don’t want to live in an apartment full of them. They’ll bitch and cry and all. That doesn’t bother Giuliani. It doesn’t bother Giuliani to put a dress on to do ‘Saturday Night Live.’ I don’t trust him.” Flynt - who’s offering $1 million for evidence of illicit sexual encounters with lawmakers and Cabinet members - told the Web site, “Why do you break up with your wife and move in with gay guys?”

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