Bronco_Beerslug
04-27-2007, 12:53 PM
What do you think dman?
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Will Giuliani's cross-dressing past cost him? (http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2007/04/16/2)
published Monday, April 16, 2007
It is difficult to shock New Yorkers, yet Rudy Giuliani teetered close to the line when he sauntered onto a stage wearing a platinum-blond wig, a face full of makeup, dainty white gloves, and a frilly pink gown filled out in all the right places.
See Video Here (http://www.metacafe.com/watch/154212/rudy_giuliani_in_drag/)
His appearance at an annual political roast was exactly 10 years ago, and at the time, the idea of the tough-talking mayor in a busty ball gown raised eyebrows but was mostly accepted as a good joke adhering to an unwritten rule for the shenanigans that take place at the roast, known as the Inner Circle dinner.
Shortly after winning re-election that year, Giuliani took his feminine side to a national audience. While hosting TV show "Saturday Night Live," he appeared in one skit as a bosomy, gray-haired Italian grandmother in lipstick and a flowered housedress, with stockings pulled halfway up his calves.
Now that Giuliani is running for the Republican presidential nomination, experts and political observers are wondering whether those well-photographed and widely documented performances and others could damage his campaign.
Some say conservatives won't get the joke and will be turned off by what they see as yet another peek at Giuliani's exotic, big-city liberal side.
Political observers say many voters associate a macho demeanor with Giuliani's post-September 11 image as a strong national leader in a time of crisis an image that could lose its power if dressed in stockings and dancing the cancan. Yes, there was another year when he wore fishnets and did high kicks with Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes.
Continued...
http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2007/04/16/2
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Will Giuliani's cross-dressing past cost him? (http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2007/04/16/2)
published Monday, April 16, 2007
It is difficult to shock New Yorkers, yet Rudy Giuliani teetered close to the line when he sauntered onto a stage wearing a platinum-blond wig, a face full of makeup, dainty white gloves, and a frilly pink gown filled out in all the right places.
See Video Here (http://www.metacafe.com/watch/154212/rudy_giuliani_in_drag/)
His appearance at an annual political roast was exactly 10 years ago, and at the time, the idea of the tough-talking mayor in a busty ball gown raised eyebrows but was mostly accepted as a good joke adhering to an unwritten rule for the shenanigans that take place at the roast, known as the Inner Circle dinner.
Shortly after winning re-election that year, Giuliani took his feminine side to a national audience. While hosting TV show "Saturday Night Live," he appeared in one skit as a bosomy, gray-haired Italian grandmother in lipstick and a flowered housedress, with stockings pulled halfway up his calves.
Now that Giuliani is running for the Republican presidential nomination, experts and political observers are wondering whether those well-photographed and widely documented performances and others could damage his campaign.
Some say conservatives won't get the joke and will be turned off by what they see as yet another peek at Giuliani's exotic, big-city liberal side.
Political observers say many voters associate a macho demeanor with Giuliani's post-September 11 image as a strong national leader in a time of crisis an image that could lose its power if dressed in stockings and dancing the cancan. Yes, there was another year when he wore fishnets and did high kicks with Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes.
Continued...
http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2007/04/16/2