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Well, he said it was a gay bar because those two guys in the back look like they're about to kiss. Of course that kind of thing pops up all the time in photos, they were probably just talking to each other.
the Gannon/Guckert thing, and general penchant for bald guys too. Apparently there's some Southern Governor--Ashe?--who was Bush's boyfriend for years but there's no real proof.
“I’m also most appreciative of the Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee for being here. I’ve known Mayor Ashe for years and years and years. And he has done a fabulous job of being a fine public servant in Knoxville. So, Victor, thank you for coming.”
~ George W. Bush, 2001-02-21, about the openly gay mayor of Knoxville, Victor Ashe click to see photo whom he used to live with and who visits often for sleepovers, and with whom he goes on vacations, without his wife Laura. Note the gushy, campy language.
“I want to thank my old college classmate — you used to call him Bulldog, we call him Victor — the Mayor of Knoxville, Mayor Victor Ashe.”
~ George W. Bush, 2002-10-02, Van Hilleary for Governor Luncheon, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2002-10-08, Same nickname Jeff Gannon has. According to Senatorial candidate Ed McAteer, Bush and Ashe had a 3-way relationship involving bondage and sadism/masochism with an African American woman in Tennessee in 1984. They paid her $15,000 for the three encounters.
That's who i'd heard about--he's dead, i hear, too.