Postcard from Wyoming

I've been to the [straight] cowboy dance bar in Cody many times but never before have I ended up talking with America's first gay Jewish Republican presidential candidate. Like us, Fred Karger is in town for the weekend's non-politcal events. Ten days ago he published his memoir, co-authored with Steve Fiffer, FRED WHO? Political Insider to Outsider. Among other topics, it covers his acting days in Hollywood, his closeted decades, and his leading fight against the Mormon funding of Prop 8, as well as "lessons learned working for the likes of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush." At the bar a 55 year-old woman, a painter from Jackson, urged me and my partner to dance together to the band playing George Jones and Pat Benatar because "no one gives a s**t."