Back when Sarah Palin was running to be Governor of Alaska, she said in a debate that she had gay friends. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that in her autobiography, “Going Rogue,” Palin “writes with sensitivity and affection about her gay college roommate.”
So is this the gay friend that people have been searching for all these years? Last year I travelled to her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska trying to find her gay friends, or at least get a sense of what LGBT people in Alaska thought about their governor, then running for the Vice Presidency. Here’s what we found:
It’s also worth noting that Media Matters has done a tremendous job outlining Palin’s co-author’s record of statements about LGBT people. They report: “Lynn Vincent — both in her writing for World and her other books — has a record of false and inflammatory attacks on Democrats and liberals and has stridently attacked the gay community, likening gay people to communists and suggesting that homosexuality is a mental disorder.”
As this story develops we’ll provide more information here on HRC Back Story.
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