Yes, I think the consensus about outing closeted queer people has become a question of outing powerful public figures like Lindsay Graham who work hard to hurt other queer people using their power.

There's been a lot of thought put into that whole question since the days of Harvey Milk, much of it initiated by Michelangelo Signorile, the founder of Queer Nation, while writing for Outweek the magazine in the early 1990s.

The distinction is a fine one. How powerful is "powerful enough' to justify forced outing? What does it take to qualify as hurting other queer people?

Senator Graham at one end of the spectrum is an easy question. He enthusiastically supports anti-queer laws, and he even engages in the occasional hate speech and slurs — all the while engaging the services of male escorts in Washington DC.

But what about a school board member, at perhaps the other end of the spectrum? If they vote for suppressing queer support in schools, and we know they're a closeted queer, do we out them?

I know what my answer to that question is, but I don't know how many people share it.

Some people would vociferously oppose outing that school board member. I think it's a morally obligatory thing to do. So does does Signorile.