SEPARATED AT GIRTH: Kagan and Rekers Share A Crowded Closet

In five online pages wherein Elana Kagan's poker playing skills were mentioned three times, The New York Times had this to say about the closeted lesbian nominee for the Supreme Court, "Kagan has never married." And that tone of DADT has held across the Liberal Establishment who claim it doesn't matter, so shouldn't be discussed, but who KNOW that if it is discussed and Kagan is firmly outed her entire nomination is in jeopardy. Thus, The Times and their ilk ironically are discovering the narrow measure of the closet for themselves. As the first wave of people to "out" public figures realized, you can't keep the closet closed without locking yourself in there, too.

Truth will out. Meanwhile, the Obama-libs' fig leaf? Kagan has never self-identified as a lesbian. Just as she has never self-identified with a single politically weighted position in her entire career? It seems that this nominee has a fetish for opacity that might be worrying, even to cheerleaders like The New York Times. Her denial, vociferously reinforced by the White House, of what, in Cambridge circles, is the open secret of her lesbianism is part and parcel of the unnerving mystery that is Elana Kagan. Translation: HER CLOSETEDNESS MATTERS because it's emblematic of the subterfuges that dovetail in her entire CHARACTER.

Many gay politicos--not surprisingly Joe Solomonese of the Subhuman Rights Campaign among them--seem to have been enlisted in the "it shouldn't matter" conspiracy of silence around Kagan. The theory with them, and other Obama "liberals" being, let's just get her on the court and she'll be good to us.

THE SELF-LOATHING DYKE IN THE OINTMENT: a closeted queer is more dangerous to LGBT folks than a conservative straight. And we need look no further this week than the rich and deep ironies in the exposure of anti-gay/ex-gay Family Research Council founder George Reker as a repeat patron of Rentboy.com.

KAGAN IN THE CLOSET IS A DANGER TO LGBT PEOPLE and our struggle for equality. How's she going to treat our cases on the court if affirming our rights could expose her personal lie? And it makes sense to ask, if she hates her own queerness enough to deny it, how friendly will she be to the rest of us? Homophobia starts in the home closet and it's first victims are the ones who got away.

Mister Bates has a long memory, one that stretches back to former Congresswoman LIZ HOLTZMAN's visit to a rowdy ACTUP meeting in New York in the late 80s. She'd barely begun to talk before the dykes in the room started chanting "Come Out! Come Out! Come Out!" Liz fled the podium and the meeting. And she LOST whatever she was running for that had brought her to seek, shhh, queer votes. Sad Liz Holtzman, LESBIAN LOSER.

And what Baby Dyke spent the summer of 1980 trying to get Liz Holtzman elected to the Senate? Oh, yeah, ELANA KAGAN.

Sister Kagan, that ACTUP meeting hall is still echoing: COME OUT, COME OUT, COME OUT, COME OUT.

And it's still true, Elana: Your SILENCE EQUALS DEATH.