{"id":774,"date":"2004-08-17T04:06:48","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T11:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/08\/not_just_a_black_thing\/"},"modified":"2004-08-17T04:06:48","modified_gmt":"2004-08-17T11:06:48","slug":"not_just_a_black_thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/08\/not_just_a_black_thing.html","title":{"rendered":"NOT JUST A BLACK THING"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend writes: <\/P>
\n


\n

My own Golan Cipel has kept me in stitches for the last 35 years. Over breakfast he alluded
\nto the Newsweek article on Jim McGreevey, “Gov. McGreevey’s affair to forget.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> He said it should have
\nbeen subtitled: “The Down Low — It’s Not Just a Black Thing Anymore.” [See the Down low blues<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> or J.L. King’s
\n“On the Down
\nLow.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>] <\/P>
\n

By the way, the first “standing [different strokes] governor” to come out of the closet is not
\nMcGreevey, but WAS Lord Cornberry, Governor of East and West Jersey and New York, circa
\nthe late 1600s. A major flamer. Used to run around the mansion in drag all day. My late friend,
\nactor Anthony Holland, and playwright Bill Hoffman even wrote a play about him. I saw a staged
\nreading of it at New York’s Public Theatre, slightly before the invention of moveable type. <\/P>
\n

Okay … if you want to get technical about it, we were STILL the colonies, and Cornberry
\nwas never actually IN the closet. But as the young folk say, attention should be
\npaid.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n

Which says it all.<\/P>
\n

Except for this from Al Jazeera: Was McGreevey ‘sex scandal’ an Israeli Intelligence
\noperation?!<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> That theory is the LOL brainchild of Andy
\nMartin<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, a self-described Republican “good guy” candidate for the U.S. Senate
\nfrom Florida.
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