Why Do So Many People Think Elena Kagan Is Gay?  The veiled
misogyny behind the meme that won't go away.  It's her hair,
right? Or perhaps her stout physique? It's hard to pin it down
exactly, but there is something about Obama's latest Supreme
Court pick that has made the "alleged lesbian" label stick,
despite unambiguous statements from the administration that
Elena Kagan is most definitely straight.  Monday, after the news
leaked about Kagan's nomination, religious conservative groups
took to the Internets with multiple calls for Kagan to out
herself. Gordon James Klingenschmitt, a court-martialed military
chaplain who now runs an anti-gay website, circulated a press
release citing anonymous student reviews on Epinions as proof
that Kagan is gay. Peter LaBarbera at Americans for Truth About
Homosexuality blasted out a press release calling on Kagan to
answer the question: "Are (or were) you a practicing
homosexual?" He wrote, "in an era of ubiquitous pro-gay messages
and pop culture celebration of homosexu