Bloggers get active: from BlogActive's powerful outing campaign to diary entries that build fan bases, the voices of gay bloggers are louder than ever.(Gay Cyber Revolution)(BlogActive.com)

Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

Publication Date: 26-OCT-04

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Washington, D.C., activist Michael Rogers was having trouble containing his glee. His campaign outing several Republican congresspeople and their staffers had gained notice across the country, garnering stories in some of the nation's most influential newspapers. He'd become a one-man clearinghouse for information on the secret sex lives of antigay politicians.

On this particular day, August 30, Rogers's target was U.S. representative Edward Schrock, a Virginia Republican and gay rights opponent up for reelection in the fall. On August 19, on his Web log at BlogActive.com, Rogers had published "allegations that Schrock is gay. Now Rogers was ready to go public with what he believed was the proof: a tape of a message left on a gay dating phone line. Rogers was sure he had captured Schrock's voice.

"I have two people who slept with the congressman, one person who met him on the phone," Rogers...

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