When Hudson's identity was revealed, he was fired from his job at Human Rights Campaign.
Lane Hudson first met former Florida Representative Mark Foley in a Washington bar in 1995. According to Hudson, Foley hit on him, unsuccessfully. He “made everyone, gay and straight, uncomfortable with his sexual advances,” Hudson says. “Mark Foley’s sleazy behavior was the worst-kept secret in Washington.” In a different world, a less wired world, that would have been the end of the story.
Now 29, Hudson is no political outsider. A lifelong Democrat from Charleston, S.C., he has worked for quite a few politicians, including John Kerry in his 2004 campaign. His feelings about what happened are complicated. “How can I not be so excited about how this turned the midterm elections?” says Hudson. He says he’s surprised by the furor he started,
When Hudson's identity was revealed, he was fired from his job at Human Rights Campaign.