Governor McGreevey Overshares

Posted on September 14, 2006

Former New Jersey governor James McGreevey lets it all hang out in his new book from HarperCollins, The Confession.

McGreevey goes into quite a bit of detail about his gay affairs in the book, describing one gay enounter while his wife was in the hospital giving birth to his daughter.

McGreevey's book, due in bookstores Tuesday, details his inner battles with his homosexuality, his rise in New Jersey politics and his double life as a married father and a closeted gay. He described bedding the man whom he claims blackmailed him while his wife, Dina, was in the hospital after delivering their daughter.
He recalls how New Jersey state troopers were parked outside as he met with Golan Cipel, the man he would later put in charge of New Jersey's counterterrorism efforts despite having no experience. Cipel repeatedly has denied that he is gay. McGreevey recounts how he took Cipel by the hand and led him upstairs in December 2001.
"We undressed and he kissed me. It was the first time in my life that a kiss meant what it was supposed to mean � it sent me through the roof," he wrote. "I was like a man emerging from 44 years in a cave to taste pure air for the first time, feel direct sunlight on pallid skin, warmth where there had only ever been a bone-chilling numbness." "I pulled him to the bed and we made love like I'd always dreamed: a boastful, passionate, whispering, masculine kind of love," he wrote.

McGreevey tells everyone more than they ever wanted to hear about his life on The Oprah Winfrey Show, which has already taped and will air September 19, 2006. The audience was sworn to secrecy, but the word is that the female audience members were not amused at the married McGreevey's infidelities. Gay or straight, cheating is cheating; that's the way we see it, anyway.

McGreevey wants us to be glad that he's so happy in his life now. Too bad his poor wife had her entire life blown apart -- in public. Another Brokeback Marriage bites the dust.