The head of the
national gay political group Log Cabin Republicans was
grazed by a chocolate cream pie as he gave a National Coming
Out Day speech at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, on Tuesday. The [Raleigh] News &
Observer reports that Patrick Guerriero was speaking on
the future of sexual politics when a person in dark
clothes and a baseball cap hurled the pie. Guerriero
is a former college soccer player and managed to dodge
the pie, which splattered his suit coat as it went by.
Guerriero joked afterward that he "faked to the
left and moved to the right, which is probably
something I do in politics sometimes." Minutes later
Guerriero was interrupted by a fire alarm, which drove him
and the audience of 100-200 people outside to hear
the rest of the speech on the lecture hall's steps.
Police are investigating. But Coming Out Day
organizers say they suspect the pie thrower was someone
on the political left rather than an antigay
conservative. (Sirius OutQ News)