As Brett Kavanaugh prepares to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the string of sexual assault allegations made against him, his college roommate has come forward to talk about the “grim” experience with Donald Trump‘s contentious Supreme Court nominee.
Kit Winter lived with Kavanaugh and a third roommate in a three-man suite at Yale in the fall of 1983. In an interview The Cut, Winter, who is gay, describes him as a “loud, obnoxious frat boy-like drunk” who left puke in the bathroom and hardly said a word to him during the entire year they lived together.
“It’s weird never saying hello to one of your two roommates,” he recalls.
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Then there was the time someone (Maybe Kavanaugh? Maybe not?) snuck into his room and nailed a dead pigeon to his private bedroom door.
“I interpreted it as an act of social hostility slash terrorism,” Winter says. “I thought it was a very clear message. ‘We don’t like you, and we don’t want you here.’ I didn’t know who it was who didn’t want me here. I didn’t know who had done it.”
Honestly, is anyone surprised by the fact that an accused rapist and friend of Donald Trump is also a homophobic piece of sh*t?
Twitter is certainly not…
One of Brett Kavanaugh’s freshman roommates was gay. It went about as well as could be expected. https://t.co/QjpDlEKnps pic.twitter.com/UGiPfTQqMS
— Scott Bixby (@scottbix) September 26, 2018
Does it surprise anyone that Kavanaugh also bullied his gay roommate? https://t.co/COYW9r1dAj
— Eli Erlick (@EliErlick) September 27, 2018
Of course Brett Kavanaugh was also a bully to his gay roommate in college too.
Jesus. https://t.co/25ktdWzEAI
— Zach Stafford (@ZachStafford) September 26, 2018
Literally no one is surprised Kavanaugh treated his gay roommate like shit https://t.co/4PY4JEMckp
— Nick Desideri (@NickDesideri) September 27, 2018
Kavanaugh does not seem to be the person he is creating, at all, for the public in the past few weeks. https://t.co/DFjSqsdYj4
— George W. Manus, Jr. (@OutFrontExec) September 27, 2018
What it was like to be Kavanaugh’s gay college roommate: “I thought it was a very clear message. ‘We don’t like you, and we don’t want you here.’” https://t.co/SDvdqrRssB
— Gil Rubin (@GiliRubin) September 27, 2018
Kavanaugh hates the gays too ::pretends to be shocked:: https://t.co/Db4aRCrnT4
— Spookgay ??????? (@McClellandShane) September 26, 2018
#BrettKavanaugh had two freshman roommates at Yale. One was Jamie Roche, who says he believes Deborah Ramirez’s allegation. The other roommate – Kit Winter – is gay & one day found a dead pigeon nailed to his bedroom door. Sounds like a hate crime to me. https://t.co/BaQItiNSl9
— paulhogarth (@paulhogarth) September 27, 2018
KAVANAUGH: “The men I knew in college say it is inconceivable that I could have done such a thing.”
KAVANAUGH’S FRESHMAN ROOMATE: I believe he did it because he was “frequently drinking excessively and becoming incoherently drunk” https://t.co/HJx17UcxY6
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 25, 2018
The more I read, the more I wonder if Brett Kavanaugh is a repressed closeted homosexual.
— 17 Angry Pigfarmers ? (@negearhead) September 25, 2018
What a guy! https://t.co/jnVQnIuUzD
— David Webb (@RareReporter) September 27, 2018
I’ve been waiting for #Kavanaugh‘s homophobic shoe to drop. You don’t treat women the way he did without also being a homophobe. https://t.co/IehejUD28a
— George Henson, PhD (@unpoetaloco) September 27, 2018
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Brian
Of course. Brett’s friend and partner-in-crime, Mark Judge, has said that gay men should be strung up and left to die. Good people don’t keep friends like that. None of this new news surprises me now.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I cannot believe I am putting this out there, but I hope, pray, and wish with all my might Kavanagh gets on to the SCOTUS….
WHY you may ask???
Three words:
Amy Coney Barrett
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JessPH
Not if the Dems take over the Senate
DCguy
What a shock, a guy who hates women is also an anti-LGBT bigot.
No wonder Republicans are desperate to hide 96% of this guys work history from the public.
misterjack
According to surveys posted here on Queerty, a small majority of Queerty readers are Republicans.
I hope you stupid, self-loathing, selfish homocons are the first to get STRUNG UP by your gay-hating, Republican friends.
The rest of you, GET OUT AND VOTE THESE REPUBLICAN THUGS OUT.
Lacuevaman
what surveys?
GayEGO
Bratt Kavanaugh is a rich brat who was taught to lie, deny, and never admit his guilt as that would be weak, something Trump hates. I recognized his character because I was a flute player in high school and the Navy and the bullies, like Kavanaugh, attempted to abuse me, thinking I would give them a BJ, but I fought back and stopped them. I believe and support Ford, not Kavanaugh!
o.codone
If being a flute player brings guys to my dorm room to give them a BJ, I’m all in. Or is “flute player” a play on words? Either way, I’m in, ALL in.
rray63
Someone tell me why none of these people came forward when he first became a judge? Was it okay for him to have an effect on some locals as he first became a judge? We decided it only mattered if he was hurting us on a national level? You do see the quandary here, don’t you? It was okay for him to hurt people as a lower court judge, but now he’s a bad man, right? I don’t know if he’s guilty of anything or not, I know there are a lot of people that are guilty of hypocrisy at best. You can’t intelligently argue what I just typed. Unless you can show me genuine articles and accusations when he first became a judge, can you? If you do I’ll gladly apologize to a degree. Now, I know a lot of you are going to call me all sorts of names because I asked appropriate questions and made valid statements. Have fun with it, but get creative, not the same ole things. By the way, yes, I am a Dem, just like you. However, I do have the ability to think on my own. I do not follow the group think routine we are so fond of as members of the LGBTQ community.
radiooutmike
It’s just human nature.
Some people who may experience adverse episodes because of who they are might just want to let things rest where they are. It’s all effort versus reward.
If I’m a gay guy who gets a pigeon nailed to his bedroom door. I suspect that since there are only two other men I live with and they both express varying degrees of douchebaggery towards me. I might not make a big to do. Maybe, I don’t have concrete proof, even though there are a limited number of people with access to my apartment. So, I might not be sure if anyone would take me seriously or even believe if I had the pigeon in hand.
Some people like my landlord could think it is all a ruse and that I am just crazy or vindictive against my idiot roommates. Maybe, I’m scared and I don’t know what will come of this if I do bring it up? Maybe, I’ll get harassed even worse or just simply shunned. Maybe I just dispose of the bird, act like it never happened and try to put it behind me, because I am stronger than that.
So, nothing escalates, I get a new place to live, new friends and don’t really think of my asshole roommate unless I happen to see him in the quarterly alumni magazine. But I don’t live near him, he’s judge- I think what can I do? Just let it stay down. If even he does lives near me, maybe years go by and I forget the incident or think of other candidates who could have done that then. Still, nothing in his life can affect myself or my loved ones.
Unless I happen to be a lawyer or involved in the judiciary, I probably don’t think much about that jerk. More years go by, I have my own life, years bury a minor offense.
But then I hear a familiar name from my past who’s up for the Supreme Court. It brings up an old memory. Maybe I think it is pertinent…but it does not matter because it was so tenuous. So, I think, oh well I can’t do anything about. Some time goes by and all of sudden someone else is brave enough to come forth with a more serious story of alleged abuse by Kavanaugh. Suddenly his character comes into play. Could my experience illuminate this situation? Maybe I talk to some old friends, who remind me how upset I was about the pigeon NAILED to my bedroom door and how I was numb and kinda wanted to forget the whole thing.
Now, it’s being played in the media, and I can’t get away from a bad memory from over 30 years ago. What do I do? Force it down again? Drink more? Maybe, contact the media or just release a tweet?
That’s how something gets brought up after 30 years. You might not be the first snowflake in that snowball to make an avalanche, but physics is a mean master.
I do find it a little off that we (you) can accept people who lie to themselves their whole lives about who they are…that they are a part of the LGTBQ community when they finally do come out. But not yet quite believe that prep-school frat-boy douchebag could have actually done this.
Brock Whats-his-name was found forcing himself on an unconscious girl and he gets a slap on the wrist? Do you think Dr. Ford would put herself through the wringer when she knows she will not get any justice at all?
JK 1984
To me, the most likely scenario is that the people coming forward now didn’t keep a close eye on every job their (alleged) attacker has had in their life.
If I was in their shoes, I would probably be trying to forget anything happened and get on with my life so I likely wouldn’t have heard that he has been nominated for a local/state judge role, unless it became large scale news.
I’m not from the US but it seems unlikely that local/state/lower federal court judge appointment get much attention, outside of either the direct area that court covers and/or a very small subset of people who actually look out for that kind of thing.
So they likely had pushed it as far bass bb inn their minds as they could to try and forget but when it becomes national news it brings it all back and suddenly it becomes important to speak out about what has (allegedly) happened.
rray63
Mike, thanks for only calling me a snowflake. It’s nice to know that you know me so well. JK, thanks for replying without calling me any names, it shows great maturity. I’m not a snowflake and I also said, “I don’t know if he’s guilty of anything or not”. This means I’m questioning everything and for that, I’m a snowflake, possibly a traitor to our LGBTQ community, right? That was for Mike, not you JK. We are no longer allowed to ask questions, if we don’t go along with what is presented to us, we are marginalized, in one form or another. But I have broad shoulders, I can take it. I’m also a victim, on record from psychiatrist’s going all the way back to when I was ten years old. I’ve been molested, I’ve been raped and one thing I can promise you is the memories have never been suppressed. It’s getting them out of my mind that is the hard part. I also had something else happen. So I have three verifiable incidents of PTSD in my life. This may be why I find it so hard to believe some of the stories I hear. What happened to me was crystal clear and I wish to all that’s sacred I could say it was otherwise. Okay, now call me other names Mike. It’s cool. I still luv ya.
o.codone
@ misterjack. There’s probably more Republicans on Queerty than anyone would think. I’m not convinced it’s a “small minority” as you said. Of course I don’t really know and haven’t had access to any of the surveys you refer to. But, if you look at the posts here, over the years, I’d say there’s at least a third of respondents in the comments section who describe themselves as Trump supporters or at least as conservatives. That number freaks out some Queerty readers who find themselves surrounded by the enemy and so they accuse this one third of conservatives as being just one or two guys with multiple screennames. This way it’s just one or two conservatives who are trolling a gay web site. But the truth is hard to take, it probably really is a third. What do you think?
rray63
I’ve been accused of being conservative, a snowflake and everything in between. If there are conservatives on here and they are gay, why do we marginalize them? They are still gay. We become what we abhor, intolerant, don’t we? I keep saying if we don’t follow the group think we are called all sorts of names. That’s what the Republicans we “abhor” do, isn’t it? So why do we act the same way and because we are liberals, it’s suddenly okay?
rand503
Why isn’t this in the mainstream media? I hope it gets out there. It gives us an indication on how he plans to vote on LBTG issues.
jaack
Can a gay person coming before the SCOTUS with Kavanaugh as a justice think that they could really expect Equal Justice Under Law? Kavanaugh’s history shows us a bully, bigot, and intolerant judge. His demeanor screams prejudgement before evidence has been presented. The GOP is desperate to rush confirmation of Kavanaugh while white-washing his severely flawed personality as a judge and person. ANY Obama’s nominee could never even get the slightest consideration because of the GOP racism leaving a partial court for over 13 months. These hearings are a travesty when Kavanaugh refuses to answer questions from senators. We must have the people speak before another justice is confirmed.