I certainly don't believe that I thought the fellow was homosexual," Mr. Romney said.
He said he also had no reason to believe "the fellow was homosexual," which was "the furthest thing from my mind back in the 1960s".
But instead of fessing up and putting the story to rest, you called in Brian Kilmeade, a reporter at Fox News Radio, and said to him with a chuckle: "I'll tell you, the thought that that fellow was homosexual was the furthest thing from our minds back in the nineteen-sixties, so that was not the case.
It is foreign even to me, a fellow New York homosexual, so how can these straight, blond Europeans understand black and Latino drag culture?
That year also included the publication of Leslie Fiedler's frolicsome essay, "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!," which argued that homosexual fellow-feeling was a central theme in American literature.
The homosexual fellows on Queer Eye seem to provide riveting hilarity to especially female viewers.
Each interviewer tries to elicit the Ginsberg of his or her imagination -- William F. Buckley Jr., the dangerous radical; Playboy, the homosexual crusader; fellow dropouts, the mocker of squares -- and each time, Ginsberg performs judo flips on their expectations, handing back complex, nuanced versions of the attitudes with which they've tried to saddle him.
One of my fellow-workers is an old homosexual who works hard and wears bracelets with jewels.
A surreal cover-up entailed the arrest of a fellow priest - thought to be homosexual - and a cook.
(Loeb, however, was slashed to death in 1936, supposedly after making a homosexual overture to a fellow prisoner; this prompted the legendary newspaper lead in the Chicago Daily News: "Richard Loeb, despite his erudition, today ended his sentence with a proposition").
