I won’t claim to be an expert on sexuality, but I have met enough people that I no longer narrow things down to such easily-categorized labels as heterosexual (straight), homosexual (gay or lesbian), or bisexual.
I honestly don’t think Sen. Larry Craig (R, ID) is gay, not in the way he or most of us think of the word “gay.” Yes, for years there have been rumors (now given greater weight by his guilty plea in Minneapolis) that he has had sex with men in public restrooms, but no one has come forward to say that their encounters with Craig involved affectionate words, kissing, or any touch other than sexual. For Sen. Craig, like all those married men who cruise bathrooms and rest stops, I prefer the term “MSM” as defined in the excerpt below from UNESCO Guidelines on Language and Content in HIV- and AIDS-Related Materials:
When addressing men having sex with men (MSM)…[the term] MSM is useful as it includes not only men who self-identify as ‘gay’ or ‘homosexual’ and have sex only with other men, but also bisexual men and heterosexual men who may, nonetheless, at times have sex with other men.
‘MSM’ and ‘homosexual’ refer to different social identities. ‘MSM’ refers to the sexual relationships between men. ‘Homosexuality’ refers to more than the sexual relationship and may extend to broader relationships with the same sex, lifestyle, sexuality, etc.
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“This is it. We’re married. I love you,” Sean Fritz told Tim McQuillan, as the two became Iowa’s first legally married same-sex couple Friday morning. (Read the full CNN story.) 
