News: Malcolm Smith, Star Trek, Lieberman, Asbury Park, Beatles

Stop a marriage referendum in New York: "On November 4th, New Yorkers gave the Democrats a two-seat majority in the New York State Senate. Finally, it seemed, Democrats would be able to put marriage equality to a vote and Governor Paterson would be able to sign it into law. However, three Democrats refuse to endorse Malcolm Smith as the new Majority Leader because Malcolm Smith has promised to pass marriage equality in New York. Senator Rubén Díaz, Sr. and Senator Pedro Espada, Jr., both from the Bronx, and Senators Carl Kruger of Brooklyn, are all threatening to caucus with the Republicans to stop gay marriage in New York."

Hugh Jackman busts a few faces, but thankfully no one's looking there.

Trailer for new Star Trek film beams in.

A secret ballot vote by Democrats on Tuesday will determine Joe Lieberman's fate in the Senate: "Senate Democrats will decide by secret ballot Tuesday whether to take away Sen. Joe Lieberman's chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee — a post from which he oversees U.S. security issues, as well as the operations of a wide segment of the federal government. The anger over Lieberman's campaigning for the Republican presidential candidate is still boiling — fueled by memories of his undercutting Barack Obama, including in a nationally televised speech at the Republican National Convention."

More on Rosie O'Donnell's upcoming variety show.

Gregory Craig to be White House counsel: "Craig is intimately familiar with the president-elect’s record because he played the role of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in debate preparations. The officials said Obama has settled on Craig but were not sure when the appointment would be announced. The choice gives the president-elect both experience and loyalty. During the primaries, Craig was an early Clinton alumni defector to Obama."

It's the Mad Hatter!

Bill Ayers talks back.

It's not easy for gay youth in rural British Columbia: "Gay or bisexual teenage boys living in rural B.C. are nearly twice as likely to have attempted suicide and been physically sexually harassed in the past year than their peers in urban centres."

Paul McCartney talks of 14-minute unreleased 1967 Beatle epic "Carnival of Light".

South Korea reviewing ban on gays in the military: "The ban has been under review since a local military court asked the upper tribunal in August to determine whether the existing military criminal code banning homosexuality among soldiers is constitutional. The code stipulates that soldiers be jailed for up to one year for engaging in homosexual acts or sexual harassment while in service."

PETA protestor targets Lindsay Lohan with flour bomb outside Paris hotel.

Queens couple first gays to wed in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Researchers identify possible fossilized velociraptor egg nest.

Recession stops neo-gay enclave of Asbury Park, New Jersey in its tracks: "Various big residential plans came and went, but, partly because of an influx of gay men and lesbians looking for cheaper alternatives to places like Fire Island, it began coming back around 2000. The residential revival helped bring back downtown, now quite alive with shops and restaurants. Then came the beachfront development, beginning around 2005. From 2007 to 2008, the number of daily beach-access badges sold during the summer increased to 52,000 from 38,000. Live Nation, the concert promoter, signed an agreement to promote music at various locations. After all those years of going nowhere, Asbury Park was clearly going somewhere. And then, boom — the bottom fell out of the economy."

Karl Rove will never repudiate George W. Bush.

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Woman Attempts Citizen's Arrest of Karl Rove for Treason

Here's the most amusing Karl Rove clip I've seen since his interview with On Harvard Time's anchor Derek Flanzraich.

At a forum at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, a discussion between Rove and former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell was interrupted by three sets of protestors, including one woman who got on stage and tried to put handcuffs on Rove and make a citizen's arrest for treason.

Following that exchange, Rove tried to make a point about negative campaigning by discussing John Kerry's jab the other day about McCain wearing Depends adult diapers.

Said Mitchell "I have to say I feel like Dorothy in the land of Oz hearing about you lecture about negative campaigns by others."

Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP...

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News: Ziro the Hutt, 90210, Margaret Cho, Karl Rove, Obesity

Charlie Crist to consider openly gay judge on Florida Supreme Court short list.

Star Wars: Clone Wars gay-coded character Ziro the Hutt is asexual. Director: Ziro, Jabba’s uncle, originally spoke in Hutt-ese, like Jabba and then he had a different sluggish voice just like Jabba, and then George one day was watching it and said ‘I want him to sound like Truman Capote.’ He actually said that and we were like ‘Wow!’...He’s of questionable [sexuality] at least as a slug. They tell me that these slugs can be either male or female depending. That’s something I guess that slugs and snails do. I wasn’t aware of that but I have continuity experts that tell me these things and I’m like. I guess Jabba is [his son’s] mother AND father from a certain point of view. It’s interesting.”

Child at center of gay kidnapping returned home: " Glazer said his son yelled, "Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!" when they were reunited and was 'kissing me and everybody.' Glazer's ex-partner, Eric Hyett, was not immediately arrested. Authorities in Israel were still mulling whether to take him into custody and return him to New York to face charges of custodial interference, said Glazer's lawyer, Sam Ferrara."

FIRST LOOK: Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth together again on 90210.

Obama smear book: this is what "fuck you" looks like.

Drugs mimicking effects of GHB outlawed in London.

Singer Jackson Browne sues McCain over use of "Running on Empty" song in Obama attack ad.

Ed Westwick on a man date.

Happy 50th birthday Madonna.

Court reinstates dismissed discrimination case by former employee of Merrill Lynch over supervisor's "stupid fag" slur: "On the hostile workplace claim, the appeals court said Taylor's holding -- that a single comment may be severe enough to create a hostile workplace -- applies regardless of who made the comment. 'The fact that it was made by plaintiff's immediate supervisor should be enough because, as Taylor itself noted, a supervisor is someone who should be protecting the employee from such conduct in the workplace,' they wrote. They noted that even before the 'stupid fag' remark was allegedly made, Wonder had been verbally critical of Kwiatkowski's performance. 'At the very least, plaintiff would have had genuine reason to question Wonder every time she criticized his work and evaluated his performance, and to wonder whether the criticism was valid or instead was generated by her bias against gay men,' they observed."

Former Big Brother star dishes to HX about the behind-the-scenes action in the upcoming Another Gay Sequel.

Last Dance: Hopes for a NYC Roxy revival fading...Documentary to air on LOGO.

Margaret Cho would like to be the center in a Lindsay Lohan-Samantha Ronson sandwich: "I would hope that Samantha Ronson would be this hot, mean, butch top. I don't know about Lindsay, though. I'd have to see. I think the three of us would be great in a daisy chain." And here's a sneak peek at The Cho show. The girl's also rocking some major tattoos.

Karl Rove: Same-sex marriage won't be the issue it was in 2004...

An interview with Project Runway's Keith Bryce.

Robert Downey Jr. the latest star to adopt the pornstache.

Obesity linked to childhood ear infections: "Preliminary results from the University of Florida in Gainesville suggest that severe ear infections damage a nerve that transmits signals from the tongue to the brain, which then changes the patient's perception of tasteso that they prefer fatty foods. A team led by Linda Bartoshuk noticed the link by questioning 1300 subjects – 245 of whom had a history of ear infections – on their medical history, height, weight and taste perception. Of those who had had ear infections, those over 30 had higher body mass indices, with proportionally twice as many obese subjects.

Karl Lagerfeld wants to be a rapper.

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House Panel Votes to Hold Karl Rove in Contempt

Contempt of Congress is punishable by up to a year in prison though the chance of him making it there is highly unlikely:

"The House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines, 20 to 14, to cite Mr. Rove for defying its subpoena to testify in an inquiry into improper political meddling in the department. 'Mr. Rove has left us no option,' said Representative John Conyers, the Michigan Democrat who is chairman of the committee. Mr. Conyers expressed regret that the committee had been forced to use its subpoena power. The panel’s top Republican, Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, accused Democrats of conducting 'witch hunts' and neglecting the people’s real business, like energy needs and border security. The committee recommendation now goes to the full House, which voted in February to hold two other former White House officials in contempt in connection with the same inquiry. The House’s votes against Joshua B. Bolten, the former White House chief of staff, and Harriet E. Miers, the former White House counsel, were the first Congressional contempt citations against the executive branch since the presidency of Ronald Reagan."

AFTER THE JUMP, Brave New Films' take on what Rove deserves...

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DO NOT PASS GO: Brave New Films says send Karl Rove to jail.

PICKLE: Watch Grandpa John demonstrate the power of Christianity by electrocuting a pickle in a sling. Seriously.

ELIZABETH DOLE: Was Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person" on Wednesday for her attempt to add Jesse Helms to the Hyde-Lantos AIDS bill.

DAVID REMNICK: The editor of The New Yorker talks to Charlie Rose about the controversial Obama cover.

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WHERE THE HELL IS MATT: An update, 14 months, 42 countries. Hard not to smile watching this.

WHERE'S THE BEEF: a Spoof ad for Cal's Jr.

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Democrats will bend over, grab the ankles, and say, “Have your way with me,” to Blacks and gays.

KARL ROVE: "Yes, I do think Barack Obama is arrogant." You know, as opposed to Rove's old boss.

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Is Scott McClellan First of Bush White House to Tell the Truth?

Late yesterday, Politico published a motherlode of quotes from Scott McClellan's memoir What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong with Washington which was previewed back in November, and is set to be released this week.

Instead of the "largely affectionate portrait" and "a few swipes" which most expected, the book takes a more critical tone than anticipated, discussing how the Bush administration “veered terribly off course." Here's a bit:

“One of the worst disasters in our nation’s history became one of the biggest disasters in Bush’s presidency. Katrina and the botched federal response to it would largely come to define Bush’s second term. And the perception of this catastrophe was made worse by previous decisions President Bush had made, including, first and foremost, the failure to be open and forthright on Iraq and rushing to war with inadequate planning and preparation for its aftermath.”

On the Plame case: "I had allowed myself to be deceived into unknowingly passing along a falsehood. “It would ultimately prove fatal to my ability to serve the president effectively. I didn’t learn that what I’d said was untrue until the media began to figure it out almost two years later. Neither, I believe, did President Bush. He, too, had been deceived and therefore became unwittingly involved in deceiving me. But the top White House officials who knew the truth — including Rove, Libby and possibly Vice President Cheney — allowed me, even encouraged me, to repeat a lie."

Much more at Politico...

Karl Rove commented on the quotes, saying McClellan sounds "like a left-wing blogger." Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP...

Previously
Scott McClellan Points Finger at Bush, Cheney Over False Iraq Info [tr]

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Karl Rove Gets Hammered by Harvard Comedy News Anchor

Here's the most amusing Karl Rove interview I've seen in a while, from Harvard's comedy news show On Harvard Time. After wishing Rove a "Happy Gay-pril", anchor Derek Flanzraich proceeds to ask him how he deals with being called 'Ann Coulter and Satan's love child', gets him to explain the meaning of Turdblossom, and queries him on which of his scandals he recalls most fondly - Valerie Plame, swiftboating John Kerry, the dismissal of the U.S. Attorneys, contempt of Congress, never finding WMDs, or saying that John McCain has an illegitimate black child.

Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP...

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TRANSAMERICAN LOVE STORY: Calpernia Adams and Andrea James talk about their upcoming reality show, and react to comments written on Perez Hilton's site.

MIKE GRAVEL: A must-see music video and the story behind it. (via slog)

KELLIE PICKLER: Is she smarter than a kindergartner?

DO YOU REALLY NEED TO TOUCH ME? Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) asks Rove to "take this opportunity to retract his (Rove's) outrageous statements" on FOX News Sunday.

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"Rogues Gallery" of White House Mugshots on Display

An exhibit by artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese is both angering and amusing visitors to the New York Public Library. Members of the Bush administration are featured in satirical mugshots, holding placards with the date each of them stated something "incriminating" about the Iraq war, according to the New York Daily News:

"The installation includes audio clips of the administration members - complete with the sound of a flashbulb popping and a prison door slamming."

Matthew Walter, director of communications for the state GOP, told the paper, "It is simply inappropriate to have political attack art, in the form of egregious doctored photographs of the President and other high-ranking officials who have dedicated their lives to public service, in a taxpayer-funded building frequented by schoolchildren and the general public."

Raw Story reports: "Ligorano and Reese are well known for their political art: 'Line Up (2004-5), their series of portraits of Bush administration officials, acknowledges that the mug shot has become the preeminent form of portraiture in America now that more people are incarcerated there, than any other country in the world. The artists debuted Line Up, selling it as a postcard book on the streets of New York during the Republican convention in 2004. Now in its third edition, they have printed and sold more than 5,000 copies.'"

Six more works from "Line-Up" after the jump...

Library exhibit features 'mug shots' of President Bush, White House officials [ny daily news]
Fox: Library's White House mug shots might confuse little kids [raw story]

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News: Amy Winehouse, Venus, Karl Rove, Jay Brannan, Gyllenspoon

STUDY: Same-sex marriage would benefit Maryland's coffers to the tune of $3.2 million dollars annually.

Amy Winehouse cancels entire tour because something is missing.

Delete, delete, delete. Scott Bloch, the head of the federal agency investigating Karl Rove's political operation and its perhaps improperly deleted computer files, is now in the "hot seat" himself, for the same activity: "Recently, investigators learned that Mr. Bloch erased all the files on his office personal computer late last year. They are now trying to determine whether the deletions were improper or part of a cover-up, lawyers close to the case said. Bypassing his agency's computer technicians, Mr. Bloch phoned 1-800-905-GEEKS for Geeks on Call, the mobile PC-help service. It dispatched a technician in one of its signature PT Cruiser wagons. In an interview, the 49-year-old former labor-law litigator from Lawrence, Kan., confirmed that he contacted Geeks on Call but said he was trying to eradicate a virus that had seized control of his computer."

Lesbian novelist Jane Rule dies of liver cancer at 76: "She was the first Canadian woman writer to write about being gay as if it was part of the normal life."

Did Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon join the mile-high club?

Separated at birth? Venus much more like Earth than previously thought.

Seattle groups hold forum on anti-gay attacks.

Judge rules case challenging Wisconsin's gay marriage ban can proceed.

Giuliani under fire for secret Hamptons trips funded by taxpayers. Anderson sticks it to him last night -

Rhode Island Assembly gets second gay lawmaker: "Democrat Frank Ferri rolled to victory in yesterday’s special election for the District 22 House seat, defeating Republican Jonathan Wheeler and independent Carlo Pisaturo Jr. to win the seat formerly held by fellow Democrat Peter T. Ginaitt. Ferri took 53 percent of the vote, 896 in total. Wheeler was second with 33 percent, and Pisaturo a distant third."

North Carolina POLL: Does a candidate's sexual orientation matter?

Shortbus actor and musician Jay Brannan in concert in London.

Gay man jailed in Hong Kong for blackmailing his lover: "A gay blackmailer who threatened to tell a Hong Kong primary school teacher's employers about their one-night stand was Thursday beginning a three-year jail term. Alex Lo Man-nam, 21, extorted nearly 4,000 US dollars from his 34-year-old victim with threats to tell his school they had sex when Lo was under 21, the age for gay legal consent in Hong Kong. He also got his victim to buy him presents including a pressure cooker, a computer, printer and clothes after targeting the teacher in June after their one-night stand."

Wingnuts accuse Alaska Airlines of offering deals unavailable to those who are "sexually normal".

According to a new Hunter College national poll, Hillary Clinton is winning the gay vote: "In the first public, political survey ever conducted by a university-based team of scholars with a nationally representative sample of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGBs) Americans, results released today show that Senator Hillary Clinton has the support of 63 percent of LGB likely voters in the Democratic primaries, followed by Senator Barack Obama with 22 percent and John Edwards with 7 percent. The Hunter College Poll also finds that during the process of 'coming out,' LGBs become more liberal and more engaged in the political process than the general population."

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KARL ROVE: Tells Charlie Rose that the administration was opposed to Iraq war vote in 2002.

BULLYING: Beth Ditto of The Gossip joins the BeatBullying campaign. As does Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz.

RHYDIAN: The X-Factor favorite takes on "Somewhere" from West Side Story and makes Dannii Minogue cry.

MAN-TAGE: What "real men" do.

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Scott McClellan Points Finger at Bush, Cheney Over False Iraq Info

The publisher of Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's forthcoming book What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong with Washington, unleashed a passage from the book on its website yesterday in which McClellan accuses five high-ranking White House officials, including George W. Bush, of being "involved" in the passing along of false information to the American people.

Writes McClellan:

"The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. There was one problem. It was not true. I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the President himself. ."

McClellan has declined to comment further.

The 400-page book is scheduled for publication on April 21. Should be an interesting read.

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Rove Exit: Bush Says Good-Bye to His Brain

George W. Bush said good-bye to the man some called "Bush's Brain" at a press conference on the White House lawn yesterday. Said Bush: "I'll be on the road behind you here in a little bit."

Shortly thereafter, Karl Rove and his family joined George and Laura Bush on a helicopter ride to the Crawford ranch after bidding farewell to reporters.

Rove casts himself as Herman Melville's white whale in his good-bye speech: "I’m realistic enough to understand that the subpoenas are going to keep flying my way. I’m Moby Dick and we’ve got three or four members of Congress who are trying to cast themselves in the part of Captain Ahab — so they’re going to keep coming."

Just Karl Rove spouting off? Hardly.

A quick Wikipedian assessment of Melville's plot elements reveals Rove's statement to fit perfectly with the Bush administration's inclination towards moral dualism: "The white whale itself, for example, has been read as symbolically representative of good and evil, as has Ahab. The white whale has also been seen as a metaphor for the elements of life that are out of our control, or God."

Illustration courtesy Pretty on the Outside.

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Chief White House Aide Karl Rove Announces Resignation

George W. Bush's senior White House advisor Karl Rove told the Wall Street Journal's Paul Gigot in an interview published this morning that he would be resigning his position effective August 31 — "14 years after he began working with Mr. Bush on his campaign for Texas governor, 10 years after they began planning a White House run, and after 79 months in the political cockpit of a tumultuous presidency."

Said Rove: "I just think it's time. There's always something that can keep you here, and as much as I'd like to be here, I've got to do this for the sake of my family."

The paper notes that though Rove has had a target on his back for some time, his opponents have been unable to strike it solidly: "He has survived a probe by a remorseless special counsel, and lately a subpoena barrage from Democrats for whom he is the great white whale. He shows notable forbearance in declining to comment on prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who dragged him through five grand jury appearances. He won't even disclose his legal bills, except to quip that 'every one has been paid' and that 'it was worth every penny.'"

Gigot also notes that Rove claims his reputation as Bush's "architect" is inflated: "'I'm a myth. There's the Mark of Rove,' he says, with a bemused air. 'I read about some of the things I'm supposed to have done, and I have to try not to laugh.' He says the real target is Mr. Bush, whom many Democrats have never accepted as a legitimate president and 'never will.'"

Rove also predicts Bush will head back up in the polls, closer to 40%, and that "a tough, tenacious, fatally flawed candidate" by the name of Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination.

Karl Rove to Resign At the End of August [wsj]

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Towleroad Guide to the Tube: #117

VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTER CHO SEUNG-HUI: The killer's video, sent in the mail to NBC News.

CLERGY CALL FOR JUSTICE: 220 clergy members from 50 states gathered on Capitol Hill this week to lobby for hate crimes legislation as well as the Emplyment non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). This is their press conference.

DELETED WHITE HOUSE EMAILS: Karl Rove finally finds a use for that pesky Microsoft paper clip! Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez begins his testimony today at hearings regarding the Bush administration firing of U.S. Attorneys.

JOHN MCCAIN: Jokes about bombing Iran on campaign stop in South Carolina: "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran".

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News: White House Emails, Mystery Clouds, Beckham, T Rex

White House says it "lost" five million emails. What a crock. Case begins to get "quite interesting".

Scientists to study increasing number of mysterious "night shining" clouds they say could be related to global warming: "The clouds were first observed above polar regions in 1885 – suggesting they may have been caused by the eruption of Krakatoa two years before. But in recent years they have spread to latitudes as low as 40°, while also growing in number and getting brighter."

Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Madison) to join celebration marking 25th anniversary of Wisconsin becoming the first state to approve gay rights legislation.

Anti-gay pastor Ken Hutcherson says yes, he does have the videotape that shows his trip to Latvia to hobnob with anti-gay forces was as a "special envoy" sanctioned by the White House, but no, he's not going to let anyone see it.

Rufus Wainwright talks Brandon Flowers again: "I do relate him to a sort of Brando character - somewhat conservative but yet volatile and also extremely handsome. But also highly sensitive. So it's just a good old gay fantasy."

Movin' on: Reichen Lehmkuhl guides new beau before the flash bulbs at Red Line premiere.

New York's meatpacking district has been designated "historic".

Leaving for L.A.: David Beckham planning male-only going-away bash.

Confirmed: Tyrannosaurus Rex's closest modern relative is the chicken. "The analysis shows that T-rex collagen makeup is almost identical to that of a modern chicken - this corroborates a huge body of evidence from the fossil record that demonstrates birds are descended from meat-eating dinosaurs."

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BILLY PACKER: Jimmy Kimmel on Packer's "fag out" comment.

KARL ROVE PROTEST: Student protest upon Karl Rove's visit to American University, pelt car with objects. News story here...

RUDY GIULIANI ON ABORTION: 1989 speech to the Women's Coalition for Giuliani in which he approves public funding for abortion. Will conservatives be able to vote for a man who continues to support it? (source: slog)

BULLET TRAIN: New French train sets speed record (357 mph) for train on rails.

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Karl Rove's Gay Stepfather Revealed in New Book

The Raw Story reports that the authors of The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power, a new book on the Deputy Chief of Staff, reveal that Rove's stepfather Louis masqueraded for years as a blood relative to his stepson, then divorced his mother and lived the rest of his life as an openly gay man in Southern California. At that time he began carousing with longtime friend Joseph Koons, who had been openly gay for years:

"In the book, Koons recounts how he and the elder Rove began to cruise the scene in Palm Springs, looking to make friends with older gay men, eventually forming a social club they dubbed the 'Old Farts Club.'

'The men met every Friday, usually at the Rainbow Cactus Restaurant or the Martinie Burger, to eat, drink, and socialize,' the book says.

Moore and Slater raise speculation as to whether the suicide of Rove's mother, Reba, may have been aggravated by shame she felt over Louis' homosexuality.

A man of almost startling intelligence, Rove is not likely to have ignored the possibility that his father's homosexuality might have figured in his mother choice to end her own life,' the authors write."

Authors Moore and Slater say that Louis Rove remained close to his stepson throughout his life, though Rove has kept quiet about both the divorce and his mother's suicide. It's certainly an interesting footnote to an administration that based much of its re-election strategy on the divisive topic of gay marriage.

New book alleges Rove held secret Abramoff meetings; Stepfather's gay life explored [raw story]

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