http://cusith.com/sithblog/index.php/2006/bush-gay-legend-develops/
It’s not divine justice, but it is divine timing.
Just as George W. Bush is playing the gay-bashing card to try to save his political career by supporting an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America to make discriminatory refusal of equal marriage rights to homosexual couples legal, those old stories about Bush’s gay old days as a young turk are surfacing again.
There are persistent rumors about a homosexual love affair between George W. Bush and Victor Ashe, the Ambassador to Poland and former mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee. Different permutations of the rumors even have President Bush sending candy and flowers to Ambassador Ashe.
There is also a second set of rumors of George W. Bush’s college days at Yale. In this set of rumors, there is a group of 29 alumi who for the Gay Ivy Leaguers for Truth. A typical recounting goes like this:
“According to a group of 29 Yale classmates who comprise Gay Ivy Leaguers for Truth, Bush was “known to be at least sexually experimental throughout his time in college.” One of Bush’s alleged former boyfriends, Anthony Berusca (class of ‘70), told The Dallas Morning News that Bush was “deeply conflicted about being gay, even somewhat self-hating.” Berusca is convinced that this conflict led to Bush’s drinking problems, but describes the President as a “gentle, caring lover”. In 1986, the Bush family arranged for George to join Worthy Creations, a church group in El Paso that focuses on converting homosexuals through faith. A year later, Bush claimed to be straight, born again, and engaged to Laura Welch.”
Here’s the trick: A journalist in Pennsylvania claims that the whole Gay Ivy Leaguers for Truth thing is a hoax that started out as a clear satire of the reality-challenged Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The trouble with the journalist’s story is that his link to the web site that corroborates his story only brings us a 403 error message - we’re forbidden from reading the archives, it seems.
I bring all this up here not to tell you what the truth of the matter is, but because the development of this story illustrates how legends develop, People who accept mythical stories as literal truth often fail to understand how easily a story can develop from just a smattering of information, or even mere imagination, and then transform as the cultural context needs new aspects of the story to come into existence.
There were not blogs in ancient times, but there were campfires, and wandering minstrels, eager to tell a ribald tale about the rich and powerful.
– Mythological Links
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