How do gay employees of the New York Post feel about working at an institution that portrays homosexuals as a bunch of whiny, effeminate sodomites? Is the newsroom as uncomfortable a place for them as the paper's frequent gay-baiting might suggest?

I figured the best way to answer these questions would be to ask some of the Post's prominent gay writers and editors. Unfortunately, I hit a snag: There aren't any.

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So I changed tacks. I called up the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association to see if there have been any complaints about discriminatory hiring or treatment of workers at the Post. That was when I found my first gay Postie. His name is Eric Hegedus, and he's a page designer. He's also the NLGJA's national president.

He told me he couldn't comment. Quite the muscular group, that NLGJA.

"For most people, you have to turn off a part of your brain when you work there."