An excellent article on the "uncloseting" phenomenon -- outing "socially open" gay politicos that work for anti-gay efforts is here. The Washington Blade recently outed a staffer working for a homophobic Senate candidate in Florida, Mel Martinez. The staffer used to work for the Christian Coalition in that state! This dude is sick:

In 1997, Dowless, still in his role as director of the state’s Christian Coalition, cheered when the University of Florida rescinded a student spouse ID card that had been given to the partner of a lesbian student. The card gave spouses of students special advantages, such as use of the university’s libraries and recreational facilities.

“Marriage should be reserved for a man and a woman,” Dowless told the Alligator, the student publication.

In 1998, Dowless successfully blocked a move by the state legislature to write the Religious Freedom Restoration Act into the state Constitution. The move would have prohibited discrimination based on a variety of attributes, including gender.

This is a man who was cruising in gay bars in Florida and was later confronted with information by a Blade editor, who was in the bar at the time. The interesting thing about this is that this puts these "family values" politicians who employ gay staff  in a corner. They then have to confirm that the staffer wouldn't be fired for their orientation --  that exposes their high hypocrisy, and so those politicians deserve to be "outed" on that front if they are planning to legislatively restrict my civil rights.