We’ve been having loads of fun with gay restroom goblin Larry Craig over the past couple of months, haven’t we? What we’ve been missing, though, is an on-the-record account from a source willing to come forward and tell what it’s like to have an actual romantic liaison with the Idaho Republican. Meet David Phillips, a local IT geek and bear-about-town.
Phillips was recently in a bar minding his own business when he heard Craig’s voice on the television. “I went pale and nearly vomited,” Phillips says. It was the man he remembered from one of his creepiest sexual encounters twenty years earlier. “After a truncated meal I went back to my hotel room and began unwinding and jotting down the memories that the voice had opened. I recalled The Follies, the furtive groping and pawing there, the odd following of this man in my car….. Crap!”
Phillips’ embarrassing, Santorum-laced tale follows after the jump.
It was late in the Spring of 1987, and Phillips was a graduate student at George Mason University. “One of my favorite hangouts was The Follies,” Phillips explains, referring to the notorious and now-closed go-go boy bar La Cage aux Follies on Capitol Hill. “There were so many closeted neocons who trolled for cock and ass there, particularly cock and ass on younger men: Terry Dolan, Jon Hinson, and a bunch of other men who seemed to run in a close and secretive group. I had sex with some of them at The Follies, and I even went home with a couple of them — at different times, at least — based on smooth talk and their attraction to a 20-something geek. One of them I would later recognize as Larry Craig.”
One night, Phillips continues, “I followed [Craig] from The Follies to a Capitol Hill neighborhood, parking on the street no telling how far from his house. We walked up the alley and through the back door of a house, with him repeating several times, ‘You were never here. You don’t know me. Right?’ and me responding, ‘Right!’ in boyish submission. As we tiptoed from the back door to the stairs to the upper floor, as if somebody else was home, he turned to grope my crotch and brush my face with his hand.” The house’s decor led Phillips to believe that this was a married man: “The bric-a-brac with family pictures didn’t scream ‘old queen’ to me; it announced a woman’s influence. Still, we made our way upstairs.
“When we got to what reminded me of a rarely used guest room, he stripped me down, and the man’s hands and mouth were all over me. He kept his pants on, though, while laying me back on the bed to suck my cock. Then, he stripped naked and asked me to suck him. I complied for a while, then he disappeared and returned with lube and a condom to fuck me me with. It was a clumsy and unremarkable fuck, except that I wasn’t clean and he was frantic about not getting my shit on anything. Still, he blew his load, ripped the dirty condom off and ordered me to get dressed without wiping myself. He hurried me to the back door, again ranting, ‘You were never here. You don’t know me. Right?’”
Mr. Phillips’ next claim is startling, indeed: “On the way back through with shit all in my briefs and feeling totally humiliated I let my eyes wander and saw on a table a small envelope, like one from a gift or a floral arrangement, with ‘Suzanne Craig’ neatly written on it. This memory,” Phillips insists, “I noted about three hours after hearing Craig’s voice again, the night before I saw a current picture of him and a good day before I heard of his wife in the news. ‘That’s who’s going to fuck me up if she finds out,’ I thought. As he reached for the door, he took a $20 bill from his wallet, shoved in my front pocket, adding ‘Remember, I can buy and sell your ass ten thousand times over. You were never here. Don’t try to come back here. You don’t know me.
“When I next heard that voice two months ago,” David concludes, “my mind went right back to that encounter, leaving me feeling cold and used all over again. I wish I hadn’t been a screwed-up kid at the time and had had the presence of mind to tell him to keep the money he shoved at me like I was part of the trade common to The Follies.”
And why has Mr. Phillips decided to share this story with us? Mostly because I badgered him to after he related the story to me two weeks ago at the DC Eagle (I’ve known David for several years). “I’m just glad to purge some mental baggage over it. I wouldn’t ratchet my current feelings about it to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder levels,” he explains, “but it’s close. Changing jobs, celebrating two years off meds, and dealing with carpal tunnel release surgery have actually helped me keep sane during the last few weeks. I keep thinking, ‘What next?’ There were a bunch of Houston oil execs and financiers I tricked with during college, almost all of whom were married… so I’ve been on-edge during both Bush presidencies, waiting for one of them to rise to Cabinet level.”
—Princess Sparkle Pony









Comments
OHMYGODIKNOWHIM.
/waits for all the bear gossip to come out of the...uh, stall
Craig's a top?!?!?!?!?!?
Wow. Good job, Larry. You bagged yourself a hot one. Woof!
"Remember, I can buy and sell your ass ten thousand times over." If there's one phrase that pervades DC gay life...
Alright, Drudgy... clock is ticking... when are you going to pick this guy up... (in the media sense--don't think you could handle him otherwise... well, then again...)
And in all seriousness, respect for the courage to speak out.
Just when you thought Cocktober was over ...
@blogenfreude: It continues with a Novembear.
Wait! There's a gay Republican? Since when?
damn, that's one hell of a sordid story.
i think i'm going to switch teams and go gay now after reading that.
...it's time for Hallowed Weenie!
Larry: it's call a finger-check.
"...a clumsy and unremarkable fuck..."
A pretty accurate description of Mr. Craig, also, as it turns out.
Now we know why Larry Craig thinks he isn't gay.
He thinks he's a top.
In the coffee table tome "How to be a Republican non-gay," the first rule is Top = non-gay straight Repub.; bottom = worthless nellie fag Dem or Log Cabin Repub. whose rights I must stomp on in Congress.
Most
When the chickens come home to roost? When the cubs come home to ________ ?
@Sarcastro: Well played!
Oh, ow. I didn't want to read that, but I couldn't look away. I think I need a shower.
@iplaudius: bear witness? (oh god)
@Sarcastro: I thought it was Blowvember?
@Mediahohoho: Thank you. I owe you one. xox
I love a story with a happy ending. Thanks Princess. Did you try to sell it to NBC yet?
"It was a clumsy and unremarkable fuck..."
....parallel to his Senatorial career.
@Dusty in the Wind: Agreed - props to him. It'd be great to see some corroboration in order to see Larry's ass bought and sold.
This would have been hot if it hadn't involved Senator Larry Craig.
@iplaudius: grin and bear it?
@Mediahohoho: better!
@FreshCliches: See what happens when you spell-check "corroboration"? Hawsquire beats ya to it.
Faster, pussycat, spell, spell!!!!!
@Tukla_in_Iowa: Agreed. He had me at "boyish submission."
And I LIVE in Houston, where are all the rich and powerful oilmen for me? :(
If having one santorum-laced tryst with a college kid while your wife isn't home makes you gay, then, well, dammit, you're gay!
I bet the senator has a subscription to Bearly Legal.
Ga-ross. He made the guy shit himself when he bum blasted him. Barf. Is that like a neocon thing?
@FlyingChainSaw: No, it's just poor preparation. Every bottom worth his salt carries a douche bottle in his manpurse.
Did they even have manpurses in 1987?
My condolences to you, sir. Although I wouldn't mind taking a shit on Larry Craig myself.
more proof there is a god...
It's not gay if you tell the dude "I can buy and sell your ass ten thousand times over." It's just business. Besides, his wife says that one of the other guys he fucked misidentified is junk in 3 different ways. So, again, not gay.
@iburl: However, it is gay if you use the word "bric-a-brac" in any context whatsoever.
Gay scandals never die. They just go into hibearnation.
$20 seems like cab fare. Wasn't Jeff Gannon going for more like $250?!?
I know there has been inflation, but c'mon!
Phillips was recently in a bar minding his own business when he heard Craig's voice on the television. "I went pale and nearly vomited," Phillips says.
I have the same reaction whenever CSPAN comes on in a bar, but I can't for the life of me remember being sodomized by any Congressmen.
And "bear-about-town" is definitely the new "socialite gadfly."
@Boi From Troy:
Ganon is remarkably free from Santorum.... therefore, he gets a premium.
So when is that intrepid investigative journalist Michelle Malkin going to this guy's house?
Just askin'.
So, Mr. Phillips recognized Larry by the sound of his voice.
To jog the memory of all the others who have been used and cast aside by Craig and to encourage them to speak up and share their pain, here is a voice clip of the Senator as he dips his snake: [www.audiosparx.com]
It's a shame when this story comes up in Google Searches that the site is listed as:
Wonkette (satire), DC ....
The poor little senators. Think they're so powerful. If Larry ever tried to get anyone whacked, the mobs would offer him up to the FBI just for the goodwill.
I would say it sounds unlikely that Craig would chance bringing this guy home while his wife was there...if I didn't know Craig's wife is like the love child of Gilligan and Rose Nylund.
Oh GEEZ! Bad enough that he actually DID it...but to ADMIT it in PUBLIC! EWWWW!
If this story reinforces anything for me, it's that closeted neocons are terrified of their wives. Speaking of scary women, what's Laura up to these days? Still eating babies and using puppy-skin napkins?
@TechLackey: A high fiber diet helps as well. So I've heard.
AndrewsMash,
I don't know...seems to me the liberals are just afraid of THEIR women.
I heard Hillary throws a MEAN lamp!
In a world of constant change, it's nice to know Wonkette is still all about the ass fucking.
@chiefpayne: Shouldn't you be fighting the war on Christmas?
OK, but what's all the bear stuff about? Do these guys sit around bars going, "Growlf! Roar!" and stuff to attract gay Senators like Larry Craig? Are 'Bears' notorious for crapping a lot while they're getting bum blasted or something? Is this part of the mystique for gay Senators?
@TechLackey: No, it's just poor preparation.
@chiefpayne: A lamp to the head is probably just foreplay for some good old-fashioned angry sex. Those neocon boys probably become tops because their wives insist on using the strap-ons on them when their naughty.
@chiefpayne: Liberal men are not only NOT afraid of their wives, they'll shtupp your neocunts as well.
@Mediahohoho: Fifty comments into an ass-fucking post and chiefpayne shows up. It's like someone clapped for the Great Gazoo.
I've started the WaPo Reliable Sources countdown clock. This could be the next Washingtonienne.
@chiefpayne:
An effective us of the "I know you are but what am I" gambit. Well played, sir.
Oh, and if you're any older than 7, I take back my last comment.
@chiefpayne:
Sure, some of us are 'fraid of 'em, but at least we (of the hetro clan) do end up dating/loving/marrying women and/or cheating on them for, get this, other women.
We're going to have to refer to DC as "Jellystone Park" with all the crazy bears running around . . . [vomits in own mouth]
Damn it Chef Plain. You got these libtards all riled up about sex and politics. Don't you get it? It's like beans, gasoline and a Bic lighter to these guys. No good can come from it.
Mustache Rides: $20
I wonder what the fellow was a grad student in. My guess is development economics, or medieval history, or art therapy.
Not meant to be a slur or anything. I totally love everyone in those fields. His writing just lacks that sense of smug self-validation you find in law students, social workers, and edu people.
I had tears of laughter in my eyes after reading that comment. the hilarity took my breath away!@Pop Socket:
I will just repeat my comment from the Vladmir Putin fishing trip story as a compliment to David Phillips: I LOVE BEAR BOTTOMS.
Not sure Larry Craig lived in DC in 1987. He may have been living in Alexandria, VA
Where did Cheif Payne go? And did it have anything to do with tapping his toes in a stall?
OMFG! So you mean when Andy Kaufman had breakfast with Freddie Blassie it had a whole subtext I didn't understand?
Afraid of the hurled lamp? Not so much. It's when they start brandishing automatic weapons: [tombraidergirl.com]
@Mediahohoho: Chiefy discovered that he had only 19 bucks in his wallet and had to run to the ATM.
@Who_knew_what: i see this is your first posting ever, but i guess standing up for larry craig and his whereabouts was important enough for you to sign up and speak up.
This is David Phillips and he claims to have had sex with Larry Craig! You know? That toe-tappin' senator from Idaho who got busted in the men's room. David spoke to Wonkette about his tryst with Larry. This is barf-inducing.
@Mediahohoho: It's the Global War on the War on Christmas (GWOWOC).
@Who_knew_what: As a former Marylander, I have to ask: there's a difference?
@metropolitan: He may have a point. Not sure if white people lived on the hill in 87. But a row house is a row house and you could easily be confused between the two locations.
@chiefpayne:
I'd say neocon males have issues with women. They seem to prefer sex with children or sex with anonymous male partners in public restrooms.
@Who_knew_what: And the swift-boating nit-pickers chime in. Check the serial numbers on that twenty so that we can prove it didn't happen.
So, can it be said Craig got shit on him, from a professional?
Wow.. I don't feel like sifting through all these comments to see if the following will repeat something already said, but:
What's David's number? A-woof!
this is so weird!
i know a Larry Phillips and David Craig that hooked up like this once!