With Seattlest deciding to “Ask a Dot-commer” about one of this week’s noteworthy events, I thought I’d ask a homo about another of this week’s happenings: the Jim McGreevey reading at Elliott Bay last night.

I’m not a huge fan of McGreevey, the former New Jersey governor who came out of the closet two years ago, at age 47. Here’s what I wrote about him in the Stranger’s Queer Issue this year:

Gay rights groups applauded McGreevey’s courage in coming out of the closet at age 47, but a lot of homosexuals I knew wanted to slap him for taking so long and causing so much harm along the way. My ex-girlfriend from long ago, herself no fan of closet cases, has a stock answer to the question of how to punish people who fuck up in the way McGreevey has fucked up: “Their punishment is their life.”

So I didn’t make it a point to be at his Seattle reading as he flogged his tell-all book, The Confession. But a couple of gay men I know did. Here’s the report from one, who wants his handle to be “Another Late-Bloomer for Change.”

I was drawn less by interest in the book itself, and more by curiosity about him as a person. Aside from the fact that he was a terrible reader, and the writing seemed pretty cliche (quotes Dostoevsky), when he moved to the Q & A he was super charming, informative and inspiring. He called attention to our unfortunate two-party system where one party opposes gay rights and the other remains silent; he reminded us the we have a voting population where 30 percent of voters self-identify as Evangelical Christian; and he spoke about the need to never settle for anything less than gay marriage because if we do it will always be just that: less than marriage.

He also spoke of hope that the culture will change, repeating again and again that ‘time is on our side’ as the intolerant age and eventually die. (Perhaps this changed culture will also be guided by politicians who never have to apologize for being gay — or in his case, closeted.)

Too bad he still isn’t Governor.

My other friend at the reading reports that he went home, fell asleep, and…

…had an amazingly hot and surprising sex dream about McGreevey.

I’ve demanded details (and an interpretation of the suspected meaning). More to come…

UPDATE: The friend writes:

It is too graphic to write about — but it was also incredibly hot. I don’t have time for an interpretation, except that I went into the reading not respecting him b/c of the shitty choices he made, etc…, and left respecting him and, obviously, finding him attrative.