Anti-Gay Politician Busted Looking For Boyfriends On Grindr

(Source) – Dustin Smith is an “out and proud gay man” living in North Dakota, one of America’s more conservative states. So the 21-year-old wasn’t exactly surprised when he read that state legislators had refused to outlaw discrimination against gays. “These are the members of the House who voted against legal protections,” read the headline of an April 2 article alongside photos of the politicians. What surprised Smith was that he knew one of them — somewhat intimately, it turns out. “I’m sure I’ve talked to this person before,” Smith remembers thinking to himself, as he told The Washington Post in a telephone interview from his home in Bismarck, N.D. “Suddenly it dawned on me: I think I’ve seen this guy on Grindr!” Smith started going through his conversations on Grindr — “an all-male location-based social network“— searching for the round, bespectacled face and bushy eyebrows. And there he was: Top Man!, a.k.a. Randy Boehning, the Republican state representative from Fargo. Scrolling through the conversation, however, Smith found more than sexually suggestive messages. He found an unsolicited picture of the public servant’s not-so-public parts. “I just felt like this story had to get out,” Smith said. “A [representative] had voted against a bill for the LGBT community and here he was talking to me on Grindr.” Since his election in 2002, Boehning has proved a staunch conservative. He has pushed to allow guns in classrooms and churches and sponsored strict voter identification requirements. He once attacked Democrats over their effort to give poor kids extra milk at school. Twice, he’s voted against expanding legal protections for gays. Grindr-gate, however, has plunged Boehning into an existential crisis. Confronted with the photos he had sent Smith, the lawmaker admitted that he was gay. (His Grindr bio reads: “Seems I haven’t found mister right yet, so need to keep looking for and having fun on the way! Hit me up boys.”) Boehning, 49, also defended sending the younger man a picture of his private parts and pickup lines such as “What’s up tonight sexy?” “That’s what gay guys do on gay sites, don’t they?” he told the Forum. “That’s how things happen on Grindr. It’s a gay chat site. It’s not the first thing you do on that site. That’s what we do, exchange pics on the site.”

You gotta give it up to Randy for really committing to the straight lifestyle. You see, you can go the usual route and you can be extremely conservative. Do the anti-gay, pro-God, nuns teaching grammar school with a Smith & Wesson on their hip thing. But, people can still be weary of those fellas. On many occasions such legislators have been caught doing the two step under a public bathroom stall. So you know how you eliminate any suspicion of homosexuality? Wear a smiley face tie. No one with fashion sense that horrible has ever been suspected of being a gay. A man in a WalMart tie is a man the good people of North Dakota can look at and say, “I’m confident that man has never had a penis anywhere near his mouth and I can vote for him.” Absolutely perfect cover. If only Randy had steered clear of that dang gay app he most certainly would’ve been lucky enough to live the rest of his life as an in the closet gay man, miserably pretending to be someone he’s not.

PS – “Haven’t found mister right yet, so need to keep looking for and having fun on the way!” is such a lame goddamn line. Might as well be a 15 year old with “Single and luvin it!” in your AIM bio.