In the run-up to local elections, newpaper Willamette Week sponsors an annual event called "Candidates Gone Wild," where city hall hopefuls - well, go wild.

Homo-politico and Portland city commissioner Sam Adams made an appearance, as he's currently running for mayor. And, in addition to bringing all the fixings for a milkshake, Adams also brought along a leather and spandex clad Randy Leonard, also a commissioner.

The results are, quite simply, astonishing.

If this had come from the right wing—and it probably will now—that would have been one thing. But to come from another gay man is something more hurtful. It plays into the worst, deep-seeded fears society has about gay men: You can’t trust them with your young.*

Sam Adams to Portland Mercury.

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