David Lat, who will take over Wonkette in the coming weeks with co-editor Alex Pareene, has had some interesting things to say about gays in the past. Today’s New York Times article “They Fought the Law. They Both Won.” includes the following excerpt from a piece titled “Those ‘Happy Homos'” which Lat wrote for The Harvard Crimson during his time at Harvard, where he earned a degree in English: “National Coming Out Day is just another event in the recent rash of identity-based pride rallies. These alleged celebrations of diversity have devolved into mutual masturbation festivals. They reassure people who are still deeply troubled by their lifestyle choices and are desperately seeking a stamp of approval. We have a duty to deny them this approval.”

Lat blogs as a woman at Underneath Their Robes; A woman who is described as a “flamboyant, theater-watching, Oscar-watching, shoe-loving, litigatrix” towards the end of the Times article.