Former New Jersey Gov. McGreevey Details Life as Closeted Gay Man in His New Book

This guy is exploiting his situation by writing a book about it and making money off of it. I hate this kind of crap. People like this guy and Ted Haggard get to have their cake and eat it too while the rest of us are stuck living our lives out of the closet and dealing with the every day crap that the various ignorant people in the world dish out. Part of the problem is that people aren't used to gay people yet. That is because a large part of us have not been out of the closet for years and years into history. Being gay is not as big a deal as everyone tries to make it out to be. Gay people live thier lives the same as straight ones. They go to grade school, high school, college. They love their parents. They try to do good in school and to be good citizens. They have jobs and make money. They go home to families and cook dinner and clean their houses. They pay taxes (some of which only benefit heterosexuals and are never used by homosexuals at all). They love their children and their partners and they strive to stay together for life even when it doesn't work. The problem is that the heterosexuals of the world don't see any of this. They see closeted men who ruin their families like McGreevey and Haggard. They see closeted women who choose to make their millions and come out of the closet after years of pseudo crushes on Tom Cruise like Rosie. If more of these public figures would just be themselves then maybe less of the world would be confused or jaded by their images and the damage they cause by being in the closet.

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