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I'm surprised that you took Crain's statement at face value, esp. because he did keep Fordham's sexual orinetation out of the paper. More egregiously, he refused to "out" Ken Mehlman, one of the more obvious high level GOP "closet cases". The first thing that the Blade's new editor did was fire the ex-sex worker "journalist", known as "Jeff Gannon", another of Crain's innovations. It was amazing how Crain could chastise people for not supporting gay marriage one week and keep Mehlman in the closet or have a phony like Gannon give an op-ed.
THe glass closet exists because of people like Crain, as well as prissy people like Len Downie. The Post's willingness to wallow in Monica-gate doesn't put it in much of position to be protecting gays who disenfranchise other gays and hide behind a lot of courtesies and rationalizations.
