SOUNDBITES — “You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that is so fitting with your beauty. I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificently gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curves of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of night’s light — but hey, that would be going into the sexual details we spoke of at the steakhouse at dinner — and unlike you I would never do that!” —Family values proponent and wife cheater Gov. Mark Sanford, in an email to “the other woman” [The State]
gov. mark sanford
‘You have the ability to give magnificently gentle kisses … I love your tan lines … I love the curves of your hips’
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Mike
Hot!
Fitz
Awww. Hetty lovin’
Shannon
I bet he’s the dullest fuck ever.
galefan2004
I don’t want to hear about straight sex even when its at the detriment of a homophobic asshole.
I pliss
LOL thank goodness for Viagra!!! is all I have to say!
ProfessorVP
How awful for the children. THE CHILDREN!
dlpca
OK, my Gaydar just went off again! I really am convinced that the Gov of SC was seeing a man in S.A. And what is “the two magnificent parts of yourself” referring to, breast, balls or biceps?
All I know is that I cannot wait for the movie.
SteamPunk
As Jon Stewart said “Just another politician with a Conservative mind and a Liberal penis” 🙂
Percival
Did anyone else noticed how many times he used the word “glorious” in those emails?
J
“the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself)” Tits. They’re called TITS. Why is a grown man afraid to say that?
Joey
@galefan2004:
Didn’t you say recently that you’re not actually gay, that you’ve been attracted to other women?
galefan2004
@Joey: Funny how you see things as an either or. I said that I might have been attracted to TWO women in the 30 years I have been alive, but I still identify as being gay because I am much more attracted to men. I just don’t see sexuality as being as rigid as you do.
Joey
@galefan2004:
Look- I’ve been criticized on this board before for my supposedly “rigid views”, and before folks like you try to attack me again by calling me “old fashioned” and “out of touch with modern society”, I’d like to point out the fact that I am 17 years old.
I am a 17 year old gay man who came out when I was 14 and I have never looked back. I’ve always been secure, I’ve always known who I am, and I just resent this whole movement that folks like you have been perpetrating to redefine the meaning of “being gay” and homosexuality to suit your own ambiguity.
Labels exist for a reason: If a man is gay, that means he’s exclusively attracted to men. If a man is straight, that means he’s exclusively attracted to women. If a man is bisexual, it means he’s attracted to both genders. Why talk as a gay man if that’s not what you are?
It completely defies the point of having a gay community, because a community is supposed to be a group of people who share a common trait, and clearly we don’t. I’m proud to be an exclusively gay man, and I have nothing whatsoever against bisexuals; I just wish bi people would come out as such, instead of adhering to a label that doesn’t fall in line with themselves and therefore distorting the meaning of the word gay for the rest of us.
I’m all for people who want to be with both sexes- but that’s not homosexuality, that’s bisexuality, and it gives the religious right more ammo when they hear men who identify as gay talking about how they actually are attracted to women. I mean, what mystifies me the most is you said you didn’t want to hear about straight sex, yet you said you were attracted to women yourself? Doesn’t make sense.
I mean, are you willing to tell me right now that “homosexuality” doesn’t actually mean exclusive attraction to the same-sex?
latebrosus
Pussy. Whipped.
galefan2004
@Joey: I’m glad you felt comfortable to come out at 14. That is awesome for you. If I would have came out at 14 I would have been in every de-programing camp imaginable till I was 18. You think I didn’t want to come out earlier? I had my first sexual relationship with a man at age 8 for fuck sake. However, just because I want to take it up the ass from a guy doesn’t mean that I don’t think (on some very rare occasions) that some chicks are hot.
Your youth dictates a lack of knowledge. I’m happy for you that you are so secure in yourself that you think that just because someone has been attracted to a woman once or twice in 30 years of life that they must be bisexual. I don’t identify with being bisexual. I identify with being gay because my preference is guys, I’ve only been fucked/fucked guys. I only want to fuck/be fucked by guys. I find some women attractive, but not attractive enough to ever have relations with. Also, maybe some day you will realize exactly how little being gay has to do with sex, but that will be when you are past 25 and no longer driven completely by your hormones.
I’m glad you have such a narrow minded view of the gay community. Does that view even leave room for anyone that is not EXACTLY like you? For instance, do you think that Brooke Hogan’s room mate, that was once engaged to woman and has been on dates with a woman on the show, is less of a gay because he was once attracted to a woman?
Dude, you obviously read to much into the term “attracted”. I never said I want to fuck a chick. I said that I found maybe two women attractive in my entire life. Am I supposed to be repulsed by chicks because I’m gay? Are you repulsed by chicks because you are gay? I would love to know what you think about my best friend who pretty much only has female friends and is obsessed (and I don’t mean just a little but a lot) with their breasts. He is gay and never been with a woman, but he just loves playing with their breasts.
Homosexuality doesn’t mean exclusive ATTRACTION to the same sex. It means that you only desire to act sexually with the same sex. ATTRACTION and SEXUAL ATTRACTION are not the same thing. I think animals are pretty; therefore, I find animals attractive. I don’t want to fuck animals.
Joey
@galefan2004:
I think you’ll find that the reason Glenn Packward was engaged was because he was in the closet for many years, and that the date he went on with a girl on the show was merely a marketing gimmick (Brooke Hogan, after all, went on a date with a girl as well on the show). Infact, Glenn has specifically criticized all these girls who have said to him that they think they can “turn him straight”, or that the reason he’s gay is because he ‘hasn’t done them yet”. He’s specifically come out and said he’s comfortable with his homosexuality and who he is, and that he knew from a very young age.
I guess I’m probably being alittle harsh by calling you bisexual, but my basic argument is the same: If someone is attracted to both sexes, that means they are bisexual. I’m sorry, but the attraction you talked about in terms of saying you could have been with 2 girls is not the same as the attraction of liking an animal as a pet or something, that’s just a stupid comeback. You clearly stated that you would have considered relationships with those women; If that is the case, then yes, you are bisexual. Perhaps you prefer men much more than women, but that still makes you bisexual.
I don’t find women gross; I’m just completely ambivalent towards them. I’ve never had any kind of attraction to a woman in a sexual manner, while you yourself just said that you occasionally find a woman to be “hot” (and don’t tell me that’s not sexual). I think your friend obviously is bisexual to a certain extent, because he is attracted to a part of the female anatomy. I mean, what else do you think bisexual means? There are different degrees of bisexuality. It seems that you and your friends are just predominantly interested in men, yet still have a small bisexual element in you.