Advocate interview with Sam Adams (clears up some miss information)

[FreeState]

http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=24552

Selected quotes:

Q: You’ve said the relationship with Breedlove was inappropriate. What do you mean?
A: I was forty-, however many years older than he was. And an elected official. I think the difference in age and the fact that I was an elected official made it inappropriate.

Q: Yet there’re certainly similar such relationships among unelected officials.
A: But elected officials are held to higher standards, and I know that. I can say, at the time, I was very flattered by the attention. I’d recently ended my 11-year relationship. I was dating again. I didn’t think it through.

Q: Do you feel like you’re being held to a different standard because you’re gay?
A: I think that’s for others to decide. I work hard to meet and exceed high expectations. In this particular instance, in my personal life, I didn’t, and I’ve been very up front about that. But I think the expectations people have for their elected officials are good, even if we don’t or can’t always meet them.

Q: Do you see this as having any lasting impact on the gay rights movement?
A: When a straight person screws up, and there have been a number of straight political figures who have, I don’t think that paints a brush on all straight politicians. I think that Americans are smart enough to know that we’re all unique. We’re all individuals. We might belong to different clubs or organizations or demographic groups, but we’re all individuals.

[Ian David]

1. If Breedlove were a woman, this would be a Disney movie. n/t

[dsc]

2. It would have been nice if they had asked about his open letter

where he made the person who told the truth about him out to be a liar.