Lawyer of the Day: Troy King
These allegations are unconfirmed. We pass them along merely because everyone is talking about them — and you want to know what everyone is talking about, even if it turns out to be inaccurate, which is why you read sites like this one.
From Ken Layne of Wonkette (whose post has received, as of the time of this posting, 35,682 page views):
This may come as a shock, but a prominent anti-homosexual Republican attorney general has apparently been caught having homosexual sex intercourse with his homosexual gay male assistant. Bonus: The dude’s wife caught him, in their bed. This is the rumor that the AG’s office has officially denied, so now of course everybody is spilling the sordid details.AG in question is Troy King, who, of course, is only interested in outlawing homosexuality and sex toys. His gay lover is either a college “buddy,” or a very young youngster and “Homecoming King” from Troy University. What are the odds of a dude named Troy King getting caught in bed with a Homecoming King from Troy University? This seems like a wacky sitcom plot, on a gay porn channel. (Is this what that Will & Grace was about?)
Based on his headshot, the boyishly appealing King is something of a hottie (at least by state attorney general standards; maybe we should have a state AG hotties contest, since they’re all public figures and fair game). But we were still amused by the reaction of Wonkette commenter “HomoPolitico”: “What really pisses me off is that THIS guy is nailing prime college jock ass and I’m not.”
We also liked this quip, a few comments down in the thread: “Wait? A bed!? Not a truck stop or a bathroom stall? What a conservative.”
Anti-Gay Alabama A.G. Caught Being Gay [Wonkette]
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Lat, you know we will still read and don't really care - but come out man.
i never thought my gaydar worked over the internet before, but that is about the gayest looking headshot i've ever seen
A gay Republican? Oh noes.
Nuthin new. Pass the beer. And nuts.
sorry but you can not be a gay republican.
he must also be a closet democrat.
"This may come as a shock, but a prominent anti-homosexual Republican attorney general has apparently been caught having homosexual sex intercourse with his homosexual gay male assistant."
Actually, this never comes as a shock. Most crusaders turn out to be a self-loathing examples of whatever it is they crusade against. See, e.g., most of history's anti-semites.
KING'S GOT DA BOOTAY JUICE!
This cannot be true. C'mon, Lat, you should not have posted this.
I picture the average Alabama voter's reaction to this as something similar to the mother's in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
He looks like Rex Van de Kamp from Desperate Housewives.
Alabama = TTT, God I need to move
Does he look like Justice Roberts?
11:19, No. Justice Roberts looks intelligent. This dude looks like he should be playing the accordion in the street for nickels.
Well, first off, did his wife act surprised? Look at that head shot....
More importantly:
Democrats have straight sex with hot hookers while
Republicans have gay sex with their assistants.
Seems like it kinds sucks to be Republican all the way around - even if you're gay, all you get is this assistant instead of a hot hooker.
http://www.troy.edu/news/photogallery/2007/october/20_homecoming/full/king_and_queen.html
http://www.troy.edu/news/photogallery/2007/october/20_homecoming/full/king_and_queen.html
"Well, first off, did his wife act surprised? Look at that head shot...."
I agree. Little doubt even before trhe scandal broke on gadar alone.
11:22--if you're referring to Spitzer's hooker, I beg to differ...she's not that hot. Especially not for the amount of money he was shelling out for her. It seems like he got ripped off.
My gadar is so bad that I refuse to acknowledge the existence of gadar.
Alabama to 3 reach-arounds!
11:22 correction, Jim McGreevy was a Dem - but speaking in generalities, I agree.
typical social conservative...
11:22--two words: Monica Lewinsky. 'Nuff said
11:25--nice find. the girl doesn't look too bad. the guy, on the other hand, looks like he got bashed repeatedly with the ugly stick.
That homecoming king is from Alabama alright, cue the Deliverance banjo.
This is a story that needs some mainstream media work to it. Although I would not be the least bit surprised, the unsourced rumors posted to a liberal blog reeks of a smear.
(This is a nonpartisan posting - I should point out that I am actually fairly liberal)
I stumbled upon this post thanks to a gossip-loving lawyer roommate...why can't us doctors have something like this? PRICELESS!
Wow, homophobe Republican bigots really are all closet cases
I knew REPUBLICAN = SELF-LOATHING
homosexual gay male?
redundant much?
"This may come as a shock, but a prominent anti-homosexual Republican attorney general has apparently been caught having homosexual sex intercourse with his homosexual gay male assistant."
Can we seriously even pretend to believe a tip by whoever wrote this godawful sentence?
11:50: "homosexual gay male? redundant much?"
Add "homosexual sex intercourse" to the list. What type of intercourse doesn't involve sex?
Troy King vs. Larry Craig mudwrestling match, whoo!1
Ref'd by Spitzer?
Wake up, queer AG
Oh, what can it mean
to a
bigot deep in the closet
caught with Troy's
Homecoming ki-ing!
/people say he monkey's around
Even if not true (which would make this post pretty awful), I find it funny that a guy's career/marriage/self worth can be destroyed over something that I have no shame in declaring (albeit anonymously). I'm only living in gay-safe states.
Check out the wife.
http://blog.locustfork.net/2008/07/09/alabama-attorney-general-troy-king-prepares-to-resign/
Ok, yea the wife might turn me gay too.
That wife's appearance pretty much confirms that he is gay. Typical F.H.
@11:57 asks "What type of intercourse doesn't involve sex?"
Actually, the first two types of intercourse listed in Webster's Collegiate Dictionary:
1. connection or dealings between persons or groups
2. exchange esp ofthoughts or feelings: communion
Webster's lists sex as third.
But yes, it should be "homosexual intercourse," not "homosexual sex intercourse"
Actually my favorite comment thus far has been:
Doglessliberal says at 4:04 pm, July 10th, 2008
- Replywhen does something move beyond cliche into guarantee? He is 1) against homosexual gay sex, 2) Republican 3) married, thus he is 4) gay and 5) will be caught at it. Add 6) he will repent and ask God to make him a non-homosexual gay man and everything will be fine.
And his name is Troy.
I dissent in part as to 12:09's comment. While I agree that sexual intercourse is only one possible type of intercourse, I think that "homosexual sex intercourse" is required in full to be specific. By the very definitions 12:09 raises, just saying "homosexual intercourse" could be two lesbians having a conversation. Saying sex intercourse is ham-handed, but technically necessary, though I would quibble that "sex" is only a noun, and so it would need to take an adjectival form. Therefore, it should really be "homosexual sexual intercourse." In the interest of the grammatical economy that other posters seem to want, why not just say "homosexual sex?"
This blog used to be decent, but it's turned into a world class piece of shit, on on par with the Star, Enquirer, NY Times, Washington Post...
I woiuldn't let my virtual parakeet take a virtual dump here.
There was a Jewish comedian--Jeffrey something or another, the guy who does the Friar's Club Roasts--who made a great comment about Spizter, along the lines of:
"It offends me as a Jew. I mean, look at the price. He paid retail!"
And now, let everyone be offended.
12:06:
TITCP- she's a more typical beard than Charlie Crists
Could he be Bi? Why is he automatically gay?
This man has total gayface. Also, his wife is a fag hag for sure. It is surprising this is the first time he has been caught. Also, what is with the Sloth look alike that he banged? Ugh.
11:28 & 12:19 could maybe just be the retail price because she let him wear the socks etc.
12:19 yes that was a good one though
@12:26, the picture that 12:01 posted sets off the gaydar even more than than the headshot on this post. Check out the way he raised his hand to take the oath of office.
@12:27, agree as to the sloth look-alike. What the heck was that Wonkette commenter thinking when he called this "nailing prime college jock ass"?
Speaking of hot AGs, check out WI's: http://www.doj.state.wi.us/ag/
The picture does not do him justice.
Guys in my high school used to bang Republican politicians. It was no big deal.
He looks like Justice Roberts
The link to Troy University homecoming king and queen--wrong year! That was 2007, the supposed gay assistant was king in 2006.
I agree 12:16, my prior post should be amended to read "homosexual sexual intercourse."
As for grammatical economy, an even shorter formulation would be "banging" or "nailing," which young genetlemen at my preparatory academy were frequently wont to do, without its occasioning much comment.
- 12:09
12:16, I agree with your motive but find that most of the phrase "homosexual sex[ual] intercourse", or even the abbreviated "homosexual sex" is redundant. We know that Troy King is a man, and it has been established that his assistant, with whom he allegedly had some form of sexual relation, is also a man. Therefore there is no need to include the term "homosexual" at all.
e.g., "...having [] sex [] with his [] male assistant." "Male" is still necessary for the purpose of the story because the assistant is not otherwise identified.
What do you expect out of Alabama? Really? The whole state is TTT
12:26,
Guys aren't allowed to be bisexual in modern American culture. As soon as a man does anything sexual with another man, he is automatically and irrevocably gay. Few women will ever touch him again because they fear that he is just trying to re-enter a state of denial, or is "self-repressing", or doesn't truly want what she has to offer, or will inevitably cheat on her with a man.
Funny how it's totally OK for girls to be bi, though. Encouraged, even. Double standards rock.
12:46= GRAMMMAR FIGHT!!
(Ducks under lunchroom table, looks for nearest exit)
Re his swearing-in pic: Am I wrong that he looks exactly like Charlie Sheen and his wife looks exactly like Shrek?
I guess he wrote this hilarious letter to the editor of the school paper. In addition to "gay," I think we can be comfortable adding "pretty stupid" to the list of King descriptors:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=137x4019
12:16 = Scalia on lunch break.
http://www.troy.edu/news/photogallery/2006/november/04_homecoming/full/king.html
12:49 -- It's not that guys aren't "allowed" to be bisexual. It's the reality that there are far fewer actual male bisexuals than female bisexuals. In the vast majority of cases where guys say they are bi, it's just b/c they only have one foot out of the closet and don't want to own up to being full-on gay. Are there true male bisexuals? Sure. But far fewer than what people might self-report at any given time. Follow up with them in 10 years and see that rate plummet.
That's what you get for naming your kid Troy Robin King.
11:21 -
ATL POST OF THE WEEK!!!
12:49 -
The double standard exists for lesbians, too, just in the opposite direction - bi women are often assumed to be straight, but just dabbling in other women. I used to occaisionally sleep with a girl who was bi but claimed to be full-on gay, because otherwise the other lesbians wouldn't take her seriously as a dating partner.
This site lost all credibility when it called him a "hottie."
1:42, that's interesting, I hadn't heard of or considered that.
1:27, you're right that it's a fact that men are more polarized on the sexuality spectrum. I'm saying that's not necessarily the "state of nature", but could be -- and in my experience, is likely -- an effect of society.
You've illustrated this effect by saying that the vast majority of guys who say they are bi "only have one foot out of the closet and don't want to own up to being full-on gay." It's that precise attitude that forces men to take the plunge once they've set one foot over the threshold.
12:19 - you mean Jeffrey Ross?
Troy King totally has gay face.
1:42 = 11:21; stop patting your own back, douche.
1:59==YES, that was his name.
So did anyone actually check with Mr. King to get his comments on this, or is this a rush to smear someone?
1) It's from Wonkette, which specializes in flinging sex rumors to smear anyone who disagrees with them. I.E. credibility is dubious, at best.
2) Why is ATL, which will at least try to confirm law firm news, totally jumping the gun here?
3) If they turn out to be wrong, will anyone apologize for dragging this guy through the mud?
11:21 here.
pat, pat, pat.
12:27,
lmfao.
Justice Roberts is cuter.
12:18 - perhaps you were confused by the subtitle of this blog "A Legal Tabloid." Which part confused you?
You're so gay if you have a virtual parakeet. Go hang out at the WSJ LB if you're looking for verified facts.
Gay is the new black, you're never half white or half straight in anyone's diction.
Damn the man...
How can you tell if it's a "gay face"?
Does Justice Roberts have a gay face?
Man, don't publish crap from Ken Layne. That guy has been a 'net turd since the late 90s. A bigger ass you will not find.
Don't let the picture deceive you. It must be the work of a really good photographer, because Troy Boy looks like the slimiest form of weasel in real life. The thought of him being sexual with ANYONE, male or female, is enough to make me lose my lunch.
2:29, good point. Maybe someday we can just abandon labels and let people be who they are... (yeah, right)
This "gayface" issue is blowing my mind. Provide more examples, please.
Check this one out!
http://www.troy.edu/news/photogallery/2007/october/20_homecoming/full/king_and_queen.html
Check out the girl in the bottom left of 8:05's picture.
A gay Republican? That's disgusting.
Sincerely,
Larry Craig, Dick Cheney's daughter, Mark Foley, that Mayor of Spokane, that Christain right dude who hired gay prostitutes and any other right-winger who talks shit about gays.
"I support family values" is code for "Meet me in the thrid stall in the Minneapolis men's room"
A gay Republican? That's disgusting.
Sincerely,
Larry Craig, Dick Cheney's daughter, Mark Foley, that Mayor of Spokane, that Christain right dude who hired gay prostitutes and any other right-winger who talks shit about gays.
"I support family values" is code for "Meet me in the thrid stall in the Minneapolis airport men's room"
bloggers got ahead of themselves on this one. what makes this point is that the rumors have been out there for 2 1/2 weeks and there isn't a real media outlet that will touch this rumor.
bloggers got ahead of themselves on this one. what makes this point is that the rumors have been out there for 2 1/2 weeks and there isn't a real media outlet that will touch this rumor.k
bloggers got ahead of themselves on this one. what makes this point is that the rumors have been out there for 2 1/2 weeks and there isn't a real media outlet that will touch this rumor.k
As an Alabama attorney, I think its ashame that our prominent attorneys have a knack for doing stupid crap like this thus giving our already (unwarranted) poor reputation nationwide yet another kick in the balls. See e.g. http://www.whnt.com/Global/story.asp?S=6502919 (former state bar president and managing partner of state's largest firm Bradley Arant's satellite office convicted of having anonymous gay group sex in national park bathrooms).
I think its hilarious that you think that Alabama's reputation is unwarranted.
Guys at my high school used to stick it in each others' poop shoots all the time... it was no big deal.
Frat Stud (R-AL)
i didn't know frat stud's friends take it up the ass. interesting.
No, only Republican Frat Studs take it up the ass.
you have the wrong homecoming king picture.... thats not the guy t.k. was nailing. it was homecoming of 2006 at troy u when loverboy was crowned
you have the wrong homecoming king picture.... thats not the guy t.k. was nailing. it was homecoming of 2006 at troy u when loverboy was crowned
11:49, you're a doctor and you have a lawyer roommate? damn, the economy is really in the shitter.
http://www.myspace.com/troykingalabamaqueen
7/14 11:35 PM= PRICELESS!
http://lastfreevoice.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/troy-king-reported-to-be-dating-troy-university-homecoming-king/