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Friday, August 31, 2007 12:00 AM

The GOP's crowded closet

The party's culture of concealment has led to embarrassment and personal destruction. Isn't it about time for the right to cure its homophobia?
By Joe Conason

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  • Thursday, August 30, 2007 06:52 PM

    The word you're looking for...

    "What makes the Republican Party -- and the conservative movement more generally -- so attractive to closeted homosexual men?"

    The word you're looking for is Idahomosexuality.

    Idahomosexuality n. Sexual desire stimulated equally by members of the same sex and by loud, pious denunciations of open homosexuality.

    —flipside Read flipside's other letters

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