Hudson is also likely the Kos poster WHInternNow who first posted on Foley on 9/5/06 in a comment. WHInternNow then posted a diary on 9/24/06 and linked to Stop Sex Preditors.

On 9/24/06 WHInternNow linked to the emails posted on 9/21/06 at Stop Sex Preditors as his diary is entiled “Congressman Mark Foley Emails to Intern“.

I don’t know when he found time to rehearse. I used to know a couple of Joffrey guys too.

Are We Our Own Worst Enemies?
by David Ehrenstein
That would seem to be the case.
In a sane and moral world Lane Hudson and Mike Jones would be hailed as heroes. But we’re living in one that is so devised that you should count yourselves among the most well–informed if you’ve heard of them at all. Hudson was the staffer at the Human Rights Campaign who let the world know about now-former Representative Mark Foley’s salacious e-mails to underage male Congressional pages. Rogers was the hustler who outed Fundie homophobe Ted Shackelford, who had been a regular customer of his for two years, deeply into gay sex and crystal meth. Now both whistleblowers have been tossed out in the cold.
Hudson has said he “understands” HRC’s decision to fire him and doesn’t hold a
grudge. “If I were in their position, I can’t say that I would not have done the same thing.” Such magnanimity will doubtless aide his search for suitable employment elsewhere. But it’s highly doubtful it will be with any politician or PAC. By contrast Rogers, who has given up leasing his body for the more respectable service of massage therapy has told RADAR magazine that he’s be happy if someone from the glbt orgs “bought me a loaf of bread and some peanut butter.” Dream on. For despite the enormous public service Rogers has performed for the glbt community you won’t see him or Hudson celebrated on the cover of this publication, nor will there be any “honors” extended to them at the countless self-congratulatory “gay pride” events that dot the calendar throughout the year.
What accounts for this sad state of affairs? That the establishment adamantly refuses to deal with he fact that “outing” is the glbt community’s most potent means of both self-defense and political advancement. And the reason for that is there is a glbt establishment in the first place.
As Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons’ new, unspeakably brilliant history of Gay L.A. reminds us, gay politics began in the streets, not in the suites. As class rules our allegedly classless society this isn’t as obvious as it should be. For just as the non-heterosexual rich have always navigated a niche for themselves within a hostile environment so the middle-class have come to co-opt the gains won by the drag queens, hustlers and assorted “street trash” who fought the cops at Cooper’s Donuts in Los Angeles in 1959 and more famously a decade later at the Stonewall Inn in New York All were pushed aside, along with the organizations they gave birth to, like the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance for the buttoned-down and buttoned-up likes of NLGTF and HRC whose plan has always been to curry favor with the powerful and influential for the sake of the select few rather than varied many. Consequently its not surprise to find the HRC giving Hudson the gate when Hilary Rosen, a member of its board
of directors and former head of the Recording Industry Association of America, made two donations to Mark Foley before he resigned from the House. In the words of intrepid activist Michael Petrelis who exposed this largesse, “Do not expect Rosen to ask for a refund.”
There’s an eerily familiar ring to all of this, isn’t there?In his classic Queer in America, Michaelangelo Signorelli recounts the lives and careers not only of such famous gay self-loathers as J. Edgar Hoover and Roy Cohn, but lesser-known, equally lethal lights like the RNC mover and shaker Terry Dolan and Iran-Contra arms dealer and Oliver North ally Carl “Spitz” Channell — both of whom died of AIDS. Still very much alive as a Republican “consultant” is Arthur Finkelstein who not only boosted Jesse Helms but came to the aide of current New York Governor George Pataki as well, pushing all manner of anti-gay legislation while enjoying an out existence with his lover and their adopted son. In fact this opponent of gay marriage went so far as to get married to his lover in their home state of Massachusetts in 2005. I’m sure a congratulatory HRC dinner is only a season away.
When the Foley fecal matter hit the fan HRC President Joe Solmonese declared “Gay or straight, Democrat or Republican, it is completely inexcusable for an adult to have this kind of communication with a minor. Congressman Foley brought shame on himself and this Congress by his horrible behavior and complete lack of judgment. We strongly condemn his behavior.” But now its time to strongly condemn the HRC’s behavior — and start looking for new ways to keep the gay rights movement alive.

I never saw Nureyev live, just on the teevee. He was magnificent. But Mischa was breathtaking.

sorry for the intrusion ;-)

Way before the Lieberman endorsement they endorsed Gordon Smith over Bill Bradbury in the 2002 U.S. Senate race here in Oregon. Never mind that Bradbury stood up for Gay Civil Unions in 1984 in the state senate. Track record didn’t matter. Republican ass kissing did.

Oregonians have never forgotten that. HRC is loathed here.