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Article: Thanks a lot, Foley: every day, gay and lesbian folks like me are the ones who suffer the consequences of Foley's self-destruction.(Mark Foley )
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- November 7, 2006
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I had been out of high school only a short time when The Advocate ran a story about Florida congressman Mark Foley and the congressional closet in 1996. I don't remember it. Nor do I recall similar reports that followed on his alleged homosexuality. I have never lived in Washington, D.C., or Florida or worked on the Hill, so I did not know that Mark Foley is gay. In fact, I didn't know much about him before September 29, when he resigned amid allegations that he made inappropriate sexual advances to underage male pages over the Internet.
Now it has come to light that many far-right Republicans knew about Foley and did nothing. That's not surprising. Foley is the ...