Sullivan does not live in a closet, but in our collective living rooms. His recent blog entry bemoans the fact that his book garnered him numerous interviews from the broadcast media including questioning from his old YMCA workout-buddy Anderson Cooper, (what's up with that reference?) but nothing from FOX. I wonder if he's seen this from the Blade:

On a recent trip to New York, I visited a gay bar on the Upper East Side, where I met a familiar-looking man wearing an expensive suit and excessive makeup. After a drink or two, I realized that he was one of the star anchors at Fox News Network, that tool of the conservative right masquerading as a “fair and balanced” news operation.

He wouldn’t admit his identity, only that he “worked for News Corporation,” the parent company of Fox, so I played dumb and let him buy another round of martinis.

At 3 a.m. and after more than a few drinks, the closeted Fox star could barely balance on his bar stool.

His solicitations for a date became more intense and desperate. So I told him I was not single and, “not interested dating anyone in closet,” and left him wobbling on his stool.

The stakes are too great this year for any of us — Democrat, Republican, black, white, famous or infamous — to hide in the closet and grant Bush another four years to pander to his fundamentalist Christian, anti-gay base.

Payback for a Bush victory in 2004 will come from our collective hides: more anti-gay legislation and rhetoric, more bigoted judicial nominees, and undoubtedly one or two (or more) Supreme Court picks.

Anyone living in the closet will deserve a small piece of the blame if Bush is re-elected.