A "NORMAL" LIFE: MCGREEVEY'S TRUTH IS COMPLICATED: Michelangelo Signorile

[I obviously don't agree with everything here, but it's good to see someone point out how much we don't know about McGreevey's life and marriage. And most of what we don't know is none of our business. That fact gets pushed aside when professional opiners use this scandal to promote some political stance. In order to slot McGreevey into our preferred narratives, we have to assume things that we just can't know and shouldn't seek to discover. --Eve]

...How could someone be happy in his marriage--and have even gotten married twice--and still identify himself not as bisexual but as "gay"? How could someone be so self-accepting of his homosexuality to the point of calling himself a "gay American," but still have gotten married and had children?

We need to figure out what it is about our culture that drives people to such extremes in the first place, hiding their true selves and weaving a web of lies. The questions--and the answers--aren't as black and white as politicians and pundits often like us to believe when it comes to gay rights. The McGreevey story reminds us of that, with all the vigor of a bucket of cold water in the face.

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