Log Cabin
president dodges pie in North Carolina

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)