BREAKING NEWS:

Chelsea Clinton stopped traffic Friday night as she wandered the streets of Philadelphia on a gay bar crawl. Led around the neighborhood by Gov. Ed Rendell, Chelsea was mobbed by local gays and lesbians, as she walked from one club to the next. They ran up to hug her, posed for pictures and certainly invaded her personal space.

“I grabbed her ass,” one young woman exclaimed to her friends after snapping a picture with her arm around the former first daughter.

“Chelsea, the gays love you!” one fan exclaimed, as she took the microphone at Bump, a restaurant and bar that was her first stop. “Oh, gosh, I don’t know if everybody loves me,” she responded.

Chelsea Has A Gay Ol Time

In all, she visited four bars in Center City, concluding her tour at Woody’s, the city’s most famous gay bar. Chelsea appeared overwhelmed at Bump when the mob started complimenting her hair.

Rendell has toured gay bars in Philadelphia since the 1970s, he said, and made a similar trek for John Kerry in 2004. “We’ll see tonight, easily, 1,500 people,” Rendell said. “And they’re all voters.”

As the tour continued past a bar with a terrace — open on one of the first warm spring evenings of the year — Chelsea nearly ran up to shake outstretched hands. “Are you going inside?” one woman asked. “I don’t know,” Chelsea replied. “I’m mostly just following directions.”