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On Larry Craig’s Decision to Serve Out His Term in the Senate

The GOP learns a thing or two about what it means to be gay.

Calvin Trillin

October 11, 2007

The presence of L. Craig dismays Republicans, since it displays An issue they don’t want to raise: That people who are gay these days May not be two male fiancés Who go in drag to cabarets And cuddle lengthways on a chaise And talk of opera and ballets. The people who are gay these days May be Republicans who praise The right wing’s antigay clichés. Hypocrisy, which this conveys, Could make it awkward bashing gays. But count on them to find some ways.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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