George Rekers: co-founder of the Family Research Council Caught With Male Escort 'Rentboy'

[democracy1st]

George Alan Rekers, a prominent anti-gay activist who co-founded the conservative Family Research Council, was caught returning from a 10-day trip to Europe with a male escort he found on Rentboy.com, which is exactly what it sounds like.

UPDATE: The escort now says Rekers is indeed gay, and that Rekers paid him to perform daily nude body rubs during their European jaunt. "It's a situation where he's going against homosexuality when he is a homosexual," the young man told the New Times, adding that Rekers -- who repeatedly asked for a move he dubbed "The Long Stroke" -- ought to divorce himself from his many anti-gay associations.

Rekers has a new explanation for the trip. "I deliberately spend time with sinners with the loving goal to try to help them," he said in a statement posted on Facebook.

The Miami New Times promises more details and a profile of the escort, whom they codenamed "Lucien" but whose identity has been revealed elsewhere.

Not to worry, Rekers told the Miami New Times, which broke the story: He claims he learned his 20-year-old companion was a prostitute only midway through their trip, they had no intimate contact, and he hired the young man only because recent surgery means "I can't lift luggage."

This seems highly dubious, not least because the New Times reporters spotted the retired professor pushing his baggage cart through Miami International Airport. It would be extremely difficult to stumble upon the Rentboy.com homepage, which features young well-muscled men rubbing each other's crotches on grainy video loops, and not figure out what the site means by "rent boy."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/05/george-rekers-anti-gay-ac_n_565142.html

[blondeatlast]

1. I suppose it's wrong of me to take such delight when these hypocrites fall so gloriously

hard and far--but I'm only human.

:popcorn:

[Lithos]

3. make that two of us

n/t

[Warpy]

6. Oh, face it, it's delicious when one of those pious fakes gets exposed

and the more viciously sanctimonious they've been, the keener our pleasure should be at their downfall.

It seems Rekers is still trying to lie to himself after all this stuff has come out, unable at this stage of his life to admit finally what he has always been all about and just why he was always so viciously against it.

While I'll always feel a little sorry for the closeted, self hating gay, it doesn't get in the way of schadenfreude when one of them is finally exposed after a long career of oppressing gays who had the courage to come out.

If you're wondering what sort of stake a straight woman has in this stuff, it's because these guys despise what they see as disgustingly feminine within themselves and often spend their careers also oppressing women, homophobia and misogyny being inextricably intertwined.

[tabatha]

2. old news

[democracy1st]

4. its new to me!

[tabatha]

5. When I read it, I thought this sounds familiar.

It happened at the beginning of the year, months ago.

[Canuckistanian]

7. Is there a time warp here?

This news is from another time frame.

Or has he been caught with ANOTHER one?

The latter wouldn't surprise me.

[democracy1st]

8. it was just updated info with the escort now coming out saying this guy was indeed gay.

[Canuckistanian]

10. Oh, OK

Not that we didn't have a few clues.

[pinboy3niner]

9. And Hitler spent time with Nazis "with the loving goal to try to help them."

Of course, I may have violated some internet discussion board rule in posting that. :)