Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 18:33:13 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: It's Nobody's G - dd - - n Business': Hillary on Lesbian
Rumors
'It's Nobody's G - dd - - n Business': Hillary on Lesbian Rumors
An Independent Report
May 8, 2000
"It's nobody's g - dd - - n business."
That's how U.S. Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton responded
when confronted years ago with rumors that she was a lesbian,
according to two well respected Hillary biographers.
But despite an on-the-record account of the confrontation between
the first lady and an old Arkansas political crony, the
mainstream press has deemed the story unreportable.
Rumors about Mrs. Clinton's sexuality have swirled for years.
But news editors have cordoned off the topic due to what they say
is a respect for her privacy.
Now however, with a media feeding frenzy building over her Senate
opponent's rumored affair with a 45-year-old Manhattan
businesswoman, the media taboo on the first lady's private life
looks increasingly hypocritical.
Like Mrs. Clinton, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has refused to
confirm rumors about his personal indiscretions, telling
reporters only that he and Judith Nathan are just "good friends."
Nevertheless, since the New York media decided to go with the
story last week, the city's two tabloids have frontpaged the
Giuliani sex rumors five times, with detailed reports appearing
on their inside pages every day. The New York Times, which
usually avoids delving into the private lives of public figures,
has featrured no fewer than four stand-alone reports on the
Rudy-Judi flap in the paper's Metro Section.
On Sunday, the media's feeding frenzy hit three of the network
national news shows, with NBC's "Meet the Press," ABC's "This
Week" and "Fox News Sunday" covering the rumored mayoral affair
in their discussion segment.
None of these news venues has ever explored Mrs. Clinton's amply
documented affair with the late Vincent Foster, let alone
allegations about her sexual orientation, despite corroboration
by credible on-the-record sources.
The rumors about Hillary's lesbianism first surfaced during Bill
Clinton's initial foray into electoral politics, a failed bid for
Congress in 1976. At the time, Mrs. Clinton was steeped in the
campus radicalism of her Wellesley and Yale years and made few
concessions to middle class sensibilities, especially when it
came to personal hygiene.
Her under arms and legs went routinely unshaven. And Hillary
apparently eschewed deodorant, according to longtime Bill Clinton
intimate Dolly Kyle Browning.
"Hillary smelled. I never smelled an odor like that," Browning
told Christopher Andersen, author of the 1999 best-seller Bill
and Hillary: the Marriage. "I was so shocked, I just didn't
believe that this could be the real Hillary."
"Hillary's drab appearance and brusque manner fueled rumors in
both Democratic and Republican circles that she was a lesbian,"
reported Andersen.
"So persistent was the gossip that (then-Clinton campaign
manager) Paul Fray finally asked Bill pointblank if indeed
Hillary was gay. When Bill simply shrugged, Fray went straight
to Hillary.
"'There have been these rumors, Hillary. Is it true?' he asked.
"'It's nobody's g - dd - - n business,' she snapped back.
"Fray pressed on. 'Maybe so,' he said, 'but we can't ignore this
-- all these rumors are hurting Bill.'
"Hillary would have none of it. 'F - - k this s - - t!' she
yelled, then stormed off." (Bill and Hillary: the Marriage --
page 143)
Vanity Fair writer Gail Sheehy, a generally Clinton-friendly
journalist, offers an identical account of the 'lesbian question'
confrontation between Fray and Hillary in her book, Hillary's
Choice (page 112).
Paul Fray is far from the only source fueling specualtion about
the first lady's sexual preference. In a 1999 interview
broadcast on the Republic Radio Network, Gennifer Flowers told
Clinton critic Larry Nichols, "Bill told me Hillary was bisexual.
Everybody knows that. It's been out there for a long time."
Flowers' claim that Hillary's lesbianism was common knowledge in
Little Rock mirrors the New York media's excuse for spreading
innuendo about Giuliani's private life. "Everybody's known about
Giuliani's secret life for years," New York's tabloid reporters
repeatedly contend, though, unlike Flowers, the sources for such
knowledge insist on anonymity.
Suspicions about Hillary's sexuality were further inflamed when
Mrs. Clinton invited outspoken Arkansas feminist Nancy "Peach"
Pietrafesa and her husband to move in with the Clintons during
the mid-1970's.
"They stayed with Bill and Hillary to save money," reported
author Joyce Milton, in her Hillary best-seller, The First
Partner. The cozy living arrangement "quickly gave rise to
rumors that Pietrafesa was Hillary's lesbian lover, imported from
out of state. After the (gubenatorial) election, Clinton
appointed Pietrafesa liason officer to the Ozarks Regional
Commission, making her the highest ranking woman in his
administration." (page 105)
Others close to Clinton have raised eyebrows with comments about
Hillary's private life. Appearing on Los Angeles' KABC radio in
1998, onetime Clinton confidante Dick Morris volunteered his
opinion that Hillary was a lesbian, which, he said, could explain
her husband's need to stray.
The supermarket tabloid Globe recently reported that a
confidential government dossier links the first lady to several
women, including "a beauty in her early 30's who has often
traveled with Hillary, a popular TV and movie star, the daughter
of a top governmental official and a stunning model who got a
career boost after allegedly sleeping with Hillary."
Is any of it true? That's hard to say, since the mainstream
press refuses to probe the allegations.
But for a media suddenly obsessed with Rudy Giuliani's sex life,
it may be worth noting that the only time his Senate opponent was
asked directly about rumors she's a lesbian -- during her
confrontation with Paul Fray -- she adamantly refused to deny the
charge.
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