The following was reported on outsports:

While Boston Mayor Thomas Menino was supposed to give the keynote address at the kickoff event Friday night, he sent his gay liaison to talk instead. The liaison said that Menino “went home ill” that afternoon, so couldn’t make it. Openly gay Tempe, Ariz., Mayor Neil Giuliano was standing next to me when this was announced and said, “We say the same thing.”

From the Boston Globe:
By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff, 3/31/2004

Looking pale and bound for City Hall, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino checked out of Brigham and Women's Hospital yesterday morning after being treated for a painful intestinal condition. He pledged to resume his typically hectic work routine

Mayor Menino has been huge supporter of the gay community in Boston, the above reference in the notes posted on Outsports by Cyd Zeigler Jr are in poor taste.

What was the purpose of the statement?


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[ March 31, 2004, 02:38 PM: Message edited by: m1 ]