“It’s hard to remain politically neutral when you know as many dykes as we do,” says Alex Reynolds. All too soon, said dykes shanghai Alex and his lover Peter Livesay (Capital Queers, 1999, etc.) into helping Democratic hopeful Charlie Clarke bring liberal values to the US Senate, and all too soon after that, one of the bombs everybody’s always joking about around the office blows up, along with one of the dykes—and it’s up to Peter, Alex, and Alex’s mother to restore order, dignity, and family values to Illinois politics.
