Journalist Michelangelo Signorile is defending outing a prominent Republican member of the U.S. Senate.Signorile, who popularized the practice of outing and the name for it in the ’90s, penned a lengthy essay on his blog June 7 laying out his case for the outing of anti-LGBTQ politicians.
Prior to Signorile’s article, a number of male sex workers, as well as adult film performer Sean Harding, Tweeted that the senator had hired them for sex.