Los Angeles, CA - He started with Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, and after outing the long rumored-to-be-gay politician in a segment that was cut from Wednesday night’s Larry King Live, Real Time host Bill Maher vowed to out more Republicans on tonight’s broadcast of his HBO political satire show.

In a transcript taken from the gay blog Towle Road, Maher goes into further detail, explaining that there are a few Republicans in Washington everybody knows about but doesn’t really discuss.

Hours later, Mehlman announced he's be stepping down as the RNC Chair in January, according to Reuters, citing the Democrat takeover of the House and Senate earlier this week as his reason.

Rumors of Mehlman’s sexuality were first called into question in an article in GQ Magazine in 2005, according to AlterNet.com. While the RNC quickly denied the rumors, when asked directly, Mehlman has repeatedly dodged the question.

At a White House Correspondents Dinner in May, Mehlman came out as a heterosexual, so to speak. According to a video obtained by Towle Road, Mehlman addressed the crowd, saying: “I’m not gay, but these stories did a number on my dating life for six months.”

Mehlman found himself the subject of further scandal this summer when it was revealed the RNC had received large donations from Nicholas T. Boyias, who is listed as the owner and CEO of Marina Pacific Distributors, one of the nation’s largest distributors of gay porn, according to the Weblog Talking Points Memo.

While Maher assures Larry King that he won’t be the first to out these men, he’s likely to be the most visible. Since hosting the late night talk show Politically Incorrect in the late ’90s, Maher has become one of the most trusted liberal.

Here is the official transcript of Maher’s conversation with King, which was cut from the live telecast but ran on Huffington Post and Towle Road and other online publications.

Bill Maher: A lot of the chiefs of staff, the people who really run the underpinnings of the Republican Party, are gay. I don’t want to mention names, but I will Friday night...

Larry King: You will Friday night?

BM: Well, there’s a couple of big people who I think everyone in Washington knows who run the Republican...

LK: You will name them?

BM: Well, I wouldn’t be the first. I’d get sued if I was the first. Ken Mehlman. Okay, there’s one I think people have talked about. I don’t think he’s denied it when he’s been, people have suggested, he doesn’t say...

LK: I never heard that. I’m walking around in a fog. I never...Ken Mehlman? I never heard that. But the question is...

BM: Maybe you don’t go to the same bathhouse I do, Larry.

Real Time with Bill Maher airs at 11/10c Friday nights on HBO.