The Gist

Whitney was about to give an interview

Ir appears Tyler Whitney was all set to go public and give a coming out interview to Between the Lines before they ran their story reporting on his sexual oriention, but someone got to him. I wonder if it was the Tom Tancredo people, or the gay right-wingers who've surrrounded him. Or was it in fact the people at the Leadership Institute in Arlinton, VA, where Whitney also works (in addition to the Tom Tancredo campaign) and which is a far-right organization that trains wingers to go out and push their agenda in the political sphere?

Check out these emails that Between the Lines posted, exchanges between reporter Todd Heywood and Whitney before BTL published their story.

But I wouldn't put any faith in the idea, after reading the email exchanges, that Whitney was in the process of changing and moving away from these right-wingers. He was coming out, but he was still intent on staying where he is, like the many right-wing conservative gays working for hate mongers in Washington and beyond today, instilled with self-loathing and still hating other gay people, who they often profess embarrasment about. In fact, Whitney has now put a photo back up on his myspace page (you have to click through to the "pics") of him holding a sign at a protest that reads, "Left Wing Scum."

Curiously, the domain name "LeftWingScum" is owned, according to the WHOIS database, by a man named Kevin DeAnna, who lives in Falls Church, VA. A google search shows a Kevin DeAnna to have been the Virgina State Chair of Young Americans for Freedom and he is described in several accounts as one of the organization's new young activists along with Whitney's mentor Kyle Bristow, the guy who said he'd kill his son if he was gay and that gays should be "in prison."

And Kevin DeAnna also is the Senior Campus Services Cooordinator at the Arlington-based Leadership Institute, where both Tyler Whitney and Kyle Bristow are employed as well. So, it seems Whitney is still very much in the bosom of his buddies.