I Pondered and Posted and tried to get the George and Dick image out of my head!!

There are two issues here. One speaks to who someone is and the other speaks to how someone acts.

Everyone has gender, race, religion, and sexual orientation as part of who they are. Are any of these things newsworthy? Not so much.

In a culture hung up on labels, we all carry our own biases on any of the above permutations and combinations. We have all judged and have been judged. There is no catch all phrase for any of us, yet we seem determined to boil ourselves and others down to a few major points. Does who you are in life contribute to how you will approach a job? Probably. Do you do the job "less well" because you are male, female, black, white, straight, or gay? Probably not.

Cheating of any sort is different. It's always easier to not get caught no matter what the "cookie jar" is.
When politicians are found out it becomes news - these days more for the salacious details - and it speaks to a character baseline that is noteworthy. Ethics are easy things to espouse until the rubber hits the road.

When we elect someone we give them our proxy to do the job that we can't do. If we know that it is in their character to lie and cheat in their personal life, we can make a determination on whether we are comfortable with them doing that in their public life. So is that newsworthy? Absolutely.