This quote is from CNN. It is about Senator Craig (R) of Idaho, and what he was doing in the men’s room at the Minneapolis airport a while ago:
According to Roll Call, the arresting officer alleged that Craig lingered outside a rest room stall where the officer was sitting, then entered the stall next door and blocked the door with his luggage.
According to the arrest report cited by Roll Call, Craig tapped his right foot, which the officer said he recognized “as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct.”
The report alleges Craig then touched the officer’s foot with his foot and the senator “proceeded to swipe his hand under the stall divider several times,” according to Roll Call.
At that point, the officer said he put his police identification down by the floor so Craig could see it and informed the senator that he was under arrest, before any sexual contact took place.
Idaho’s senior senator is married with three grown children and nine grandchildren. A former rancher, Craig was first elected to the Senate in 1990, after serving a decade in the House. His seat is up for re-election in 2008.
Last fall, Craig’s office publicly denied assertions by Internet blogger Mike Rogers that the senator is gay. Craig’s office dismissed speculation about the senator’s sexuality as “completely ridiculous.”
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I am learning a lot from this story. Tapping the right foot? I had no idea. Blocking the door with luggage? That was clever. Now I can only imagine what “swiping the hand” would have led to if this police officer had been a good sport.
Tags: gay crusing, Minneapolis airport, Senator Craig
August 28th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
I didn’t know that either.. I am signing up for tap dancing lessons right now! Anyone else? maybe we can get a group (grope) discount??
August 28th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Busted!!!! I know about the hand swiping…tapping with the right foot was a new one on me.
Jammers, you are right about the hypocrisy of some of these politicians who are eventually outed as gay or bisexual. In order to cover up their secret lives, they make a point of sponsoring legislation that is often anti-gay. It is reprehensible, but it also underscores how morally dishonest many of these politicians are.
August 29th, 2007 at 12:49 am
These holier-than-thou ideologues are all too common in America. They hide behind their all-knowing god and are keen to inflict pain on others.
They are all bastards!
August 29th, 2007 at 4:10 am
Without regard to his sexuality, which is his own business, this case smells of gross hypocracy. But, what else can you expect from a rabid, radical, arch-conservative, holier than thou, character.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:42 am
I am well familiar with this routine from my university days. There was an extremely cruisey bathroom in the arts building, that was rarely used for it’s intended purpose.
The tapping of the foot does signify interest in sexual play.
If you dont care who is next to you, and you want to be felated upon, you wait for someone to swish their hand under, and then then you get on your knees and poke it under the stall wall. If you want to felate, then you swish the hand and wait for the sticking.
If you do care who is next you, then you take out a handy pen you’ve brought with you and write on a piece of toilet paper. Things like age, stats, and interests are passed back and forth. At this point you can also quietly via notes decide where to go if you prefer somewhere other than the bathroom.
I always preferred deserted lockable classrooms to the bathroom. Others preferred to relocate to more secluded bathrooms or an office if they had one on campus. Cars were an option too.
Action didn’t always happen stall to stall. If you stood at a urinal, you might find someone sidle next to you and if there long enough, a peek usually confirmed they were aroused and playing.
The wonderful thing about this bathroom is that it also had stalls opposite each other, which led to a different ritual. You would peek through the crack in your door to see if there was a shadow in the crack of the opposite door indicating that person was peeking too. One would then stand in their stall at the crack where it opened. The other would stand. Then someone would open a little first, followed by the other, and eventually you would be able to watch each other. This often led to other things and places.
Another, more risky option was to enter the stall of another. One might have a duffle bag, or shopping bag, into the which the other would step so that a second pair of feet were not seen underneath. Or one might stand on the toilet to be felated upon, while the other faced them on the floor. If someone entered the bathroom, toilet-stander would crouch down, and floor-stander would turn around achieving one set of feet on the floor in the proper direction.
You might also have seen glory holes, which are holes bored into the walls between stalls. These allow the insertion of various parts to be felated upon by the one in the other stall. There are also often peek holes which are smaller that allow you to watch the person next to you.
Fortunately the door of the bathroom squeaked loudly and you could hear it snap shut. I hear that the squeak is now fixed and cameras in place. Oh for the old days
August 29th, 2007 at 7:35 am
Today’s Washington Post headline: “Craig Recants Misconduct Plea. Sen. Says He’s ‘Not Gay’ and Did Nothing Wrong”
My dear Senator: when you’re in the toilet, stop flushing.
August 29th, 2007 at 8:11 am
According to CNN he signed a confession agreeing to the police report. It will be real interesting to see how this gets twisted around.
Just another example of an angry frustrated closeted gay who for 25 years did nothing but try to get even with gays who are out and proud.
He will eventually have to resign but he will not go down without a show. Nothing more dangerous than a frustrated bitter closeted gay….and nothing self destructs more violently.
The whole bathroom thing seems so much like the 50’s….couldn’t someone on his staff have been compassionate enough to direct him to a chat room?
August 29th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Karma always comes around huh! Love it!
August 29th, 2007 at 11:17 am
I think being a bigoted homophobic hypocrite disqualifies him for membership in the community, whether he’s straight, gay, bi or confused.
I’m not in favor of outing celebrities, but I am in favor of outing people in leadership positions (government or business) who favor or champion anti-gay policies.
For instance, back when the US was having debates about gays in the military, it would have been a great time to out a few generals, just to point out that the military can function with gays in it and that gays can be good soldiers and leaders.
I’m in a particularly harsh mood tonight, so tomorrow I may have some sympathy for him. Poor old gay stuck in a senator’s body, or something. Maybe we should even take up a collection to fund his trip to Ex-Gay Camp.
August 29th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
SF, you might see him wandering the streets of Silom in the near future.
August 29th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
I haven’t been into toilet cruising before but if it can lead to a fat career in politics I am willing to try. Tap tap.
August 29th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
I find it interesting that the reference to “married with children and grandchildren” is supposed to be the “Get Out Of Jail Free” card (meaning that he could not possibly be gay because he has a wife and kiddies at home!). The facts are that this particular Senator was accused before of perhaps being a closeted gay man and he then married a member of his staff who already had three children—so he instantly became not only a husband but a father as well. Once again, this means that he could not possibly be gay. And of course the fact that he signed a confession after being asked by the judge if he understood what he was signing means that he is either too dumb to be a Senator or that he cannot change his story now that he has been found out.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
I spoke once in the Malaysia Hotel lobby and one of the supposedly well-connected guys called me “Eurotrash”. They did not remember me a week later.
Definition of “Eurotrash” from the Urban Directory:
“A human sub-phylum characterized by its apparent affluence, worldliness, social affectation and addiction to fashion. Males are characterized by a semi-slovenly appearance (including half-shaven faces), greasy hair, rib-hugging shirts, tight jeans and loafers worn without socks. Women are easily distinguished by anorexia, over-bleached hair, gaudy jewelry, plastic surgery (particularly breast-enlargement) and their attachment to the male species. Both sexes greet each other with “air kisses,” immediately speak of their last trip (often Paris, Rome, Majorca), spend hours at “see-and-be-seen” restaurants and exhibit a world-weariness and pained sense of irony.”
August 29th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
mmm, interesting. I am European and I am Trash… Yet I don’t feel I quite fit the definition of Eurotrash…lol
August 30th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Time for someone to roll out the old saw that says the only unforgivable political sin is being caught in bed with a dead woman or a live boy.