Blogger-activist Mike Rogers who appeared in Outrage, a documentary about closeted gay politicians who vote against gay rights in public, has written in his blog that South Carolina lieutenant governor Andre Bauer is gay.

Rogers wrote in the same post that he has previously outed Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) before their ‘activities’ came to light.

Bauer, who is unmarried, reportedly told The State newspaper in June that he was not gay.

"One word, two letters. 'No.' Let’s go ahead and dispel that now," he said in the interview. "Is Andre Bauer gay? That is now the story. We're a long way from where we were a week ago. We have diverted what the real topic should be here: Is the governor capable for carrying on the duties for which he was elected?"

Rogers wrote on his blog on Aug 31 that he has been told by reliable sources that Bauer has reportedly flirted with several gay men, and one source claims to have had sex with him on two separate occasions.

He had also spoken to two former employees of Bauer who served on his staff between 2004 and 2007 that Bauer had spent hours alone with men - who had no official business with the lieutenant governor - in hotel rooms on a total of three occasions.”

The 40-year-old Republican Party member has been in the spotlight having pressured Gov. Mark Sanford to resign after the latter was caught in his own sandal after he was forced to admit to having an affair with a woman Argentina. In a letter calling for Sanford’s resignation, Bauer said the “serious misconduct… with lingering questions and continuing distractions make it virtually impossible for our state to solve the serious problems we are facing without a change of leadership.”

Bauer is said to possess a lengthy antigay voting record and supported an amendment to ban gay marriage in the state.

While Outrage doesn't exactly out anyone as the politicians under fire in the film already have been written about in gay and mainstream media, the topic of forcefully outing public figures has been fiercely debated in the media.

Outrage, which was released this year and directed by Kirby Dick (This Film is Not Yet Rated, 2006 and Oscar-nominated Twist of Faith, a 2004 documentary about a man who confronts the trauma of past sexual abuse as a boy by a Catholic priest), describes itself as delivering a “searing indictment of the hypocrisy of closeted politicians who actively campaign against the LGBT community they covertly belong to,” “the harm they've inflicted on millions of Americans, and examines the media's complicity in keeping their secrets.”

"There is a right to privacy but not a right to hypocrisy," openly gay House Representative Barney Frank ( D-Mass.) says in the film.