* Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia). Gingrich has been married twice; he served divorce papers on his first wife when she was in the hospital being treated for cancer.

* President Bill Clinton. During his 1992 presidential campaign, Clinton admitted to having committed adultery. He has pledged to sign DOMA if the Senate passes it.

* Representative Jim Kolbe (R-Arizona). Kolbe was outed by journalist Kurt Wolfe after voting for DOMA; he's since acknowledged that he's gay, and has defended his pro-DOMA vote, saying, "I also believe that if the citizens of Hawaii believe it to be in their public interest to permit same-sex marriages, they should be permitted to do so. By the same token, other states -- as Arizona has done -- should be allowed to define marriage differently, and not be required to accept the definition adopted by others."

* Representative Jim McCrery (R-Louisiana). McCrery was outed by Wolfe after his pro-DOMA vote; he's denied it.

* Representative Mark Foley (R-Florida) Foley was also outed by Wolfe after his pro-DOMA vote; he's denied it.

A note on the outings: journalist Kurt Wolfe has 22 years of experience with PBS and the gay press and is the executive producer of the Worcester-based cable program Out in New England, as well as a regular correspondent for WBAI radio in New York. Wolfe says he applied a "strict standard" before going public with information about Representatives Kolbe, McCrery, and Foley: "We needed three independent sources who did not know the others were being used as sources and whose stories corroborated one another."

"As a journalist," says Wolfe, "I don't engage in the debate of outing. As a journalist I ask, `Is it newsworthy? Can I substantiate it to be true? Are these public figures? Is it relevant?' For me, the outing's not the issue. I want to be able to ask, `As a gay man, why did you vote for DOMA?' It makes for [a more complete] story."

-- Susan Ryan-Vollmar