(That's him in the photo above, hanging out at the Stonewall Street Festival in Wilton Manors last month.) We were flummoxed when a bartender told of us his presence. His name was 'Father John,' and he worked at a famous Catholic high school in nearby Fort Lauderdale.
Read: The Catholic Church's Secret Gay Cabal It's not the kind of place into which heterosexuals wander by mistake. The bar was Sidelines a sporty little place on the gayest street in Wilton Manors, Fla., which is maybe the gayest little town in America. I first heard about the sodomy endemic in the Catholic Archdiocese of Miami last November, when I was drinking at a gay bar with my boyfriend, the journalist Penn Bullock. Favalora is a sallow old man who looks like the corpse of Dom DeLuise. Thorp explains how his investigation into the 'lavender mob' running the Catholic Archdiocese of Miami - published here earlier today -came to be, and why the existence of a lively and hidden gay subculture within an institution devoted in part to demonizing homosexuals is an untenable and corrosive hypocrisy.