Dude, how gay is the environment? Am I right?

The previously mentioned outing campaign on Capitol Hill has claimed its first victim, according to Roll Call's Heard on the Hill.

Well, by "victim," they mean someone's been outed. And, to be fair, by "outed" they mean activists pointed out that this staffer was a Metro Weekly coverboy a few years ago. Okay, so he wasn't exactly the poster boy for California Closets in the first place.

Even while my previous posts on this issue criticized the campaign as McCarthy-esque, I had at least harbored hope that the targets of their campaign would be high-level staffers who are negatively affecting the interests of civil rights advocates. So, who is this first victim? He's a staffer for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, of which uber-conservative Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) is chair. Whether the staffer is high-level or not, the EPW Committee isn't exactly a hotbed for civil rights legislation of any kind.

According to Roll Call, Republican sources have indicated that "the EPW staffer is not in danger of losing his job over the controversy." While that's good news, that nagging question still remains: what exactly was gained?

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Out, damn staffer, out!