Florida Gov. Charlie Crist sure has great timing. Just as he was being considered to join John McCain as his running mate last summer, he got married. To a woman. Now the tanned politician has announced his bid for the U.S. senate just as Outrage, Kirby Dick’s provocative documentary about outing, opens to packed houses in Ft. Lauderdale (Gateway 4) and around the country.
In many ways Crist is the antihero of Dick’s film, a slick politician who goes to great lengths to conceal his sexual identity–and younger male lovers in the state–all the while opposing same-sex marriage and supporting Florida’s draconian anti-gay adoption law. As Barney Frank says in the film: “There’s a right to privacy–but not a right to hypocrisy.”
It will be fascinating to watch the mainstream media cover this side of Crist’s campaign now that Outrage has made such a compelling case for his hypocrisy. Florida’s increasingly well organized LGBT community is sure to play very close attention.
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[Full disclosure: GayCities editorial director Chris Bull has a bit part in the documentary]
Photo credit: Magnolia Pictures
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I have never believed in outing people. Homosexuality can be quite a struggle for some people. In my teenage and early adult life, that truly was the case for me. But with that said, I also think it is very sad when someone will look down their noses and step on the necks of others like them all for the sole purpose of concealing their own private lives. That is hypocrisy in it’s ugliest form. That is why I believe that when congress votes, it should be done in secrecy. If this were the case, I firmly believe that there would be no film called Outrage. But there still is no excuse for hypocrisy in our government. Hypocrites should Always be outed and ridiculed! Therefore, I am at peace with the documentary. And I’ll be among the ones who watch it.