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]
