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I saw Anderson Coopers show, he's one of my favorite reporters.
This is pretty funny stuff read the story below, it's worth it.
http://www.southfloridagaynews.com/...rial/1374-the-hypocrisy-of-george-rekers.html
There are few things more ironic than Anderson Cooper covering a story about some one else covering up his homosexuality. But last week he did.
AC 360 hosted a feature on CNN in which a young Miami man suggested he accompanied a nationally known anti-gay leader on a European vacation, providing pubic and personal services ‘down there.’
George Rekers, the person who rented the rent boy’s services, is claiming he just used him as a travel assistant, and no sex was involved. But today’s Miami New Times blog by Brandon Thorp and Penn Bullock, the young men who are the subject of our cover story, will blow that line out the window too."We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."— Plato, (427 BC – 347)
That said, George Rekers is the same expert witness paid by the State of Florida with your tax dollars to testify at a trial held to defend the laws against gays adopting in this state. Nice, your money went to pay a guy to say you can’t raise boys. But he can rent them. This man is an unadulterated hypocrite.
You don’t go to the rentboy.com home page, which boldly reads, “Pimp yourself out today,” to find someone to carry your luggage. On Rentboy’s front page you find naked men with erect penises and ads for escorts and sex toys. I am guessing even an expert in heterosexual parenting might know this is a gay hook up site. There are no offers for ‘travel assistants’ on the home page. And I am guessing Rekers has been there before.
The attempt by Rekers to say he hired the Rentboy model, Jo-vanni Roman, aka ‘Lucien,’ shows how remarkably stupid these right wing evangelists can be. It also proves their ‘testimonies’ and speeches are mindless, meaningless, and mendacious.
These anti-gay critics fight the very homosexual contacts they cry out for. They censor the activity they cannot stay away from, thinking perhaps if they condemn the act they will distance their soul from the urges within which consume them. The Jimmy Swaggarts, Ted Haggards, and George Rekers evolve out of the same mold. They are foolish men all, condemning others for what they cannot control in themselves.
As for the escort, he is a nice young kid supplementing his income by offering himself out as a companion and more. He knows that involves massage and sex and more. He goes to hotel rooms and homes not knowing whether the person answering the door at the other end is a lonely gay man looking for a quick release or a married man seeking to escape his wife and kids. He just wants to make a quick buck and move on. He is not expecting to turn a trick in the Hyatt on a Friday and have the Larry King Show and Anderson Cooper calling on Saturday. A young kid exposed to this light can easily get burned. He is already being called a liar by Dr. Rekers.
Now let’s turn to Brandon K. Thorp, a 27 year old theater critic for New Times. He and his partner, Penn Bullock, 21, a freelancer for a few publications, live in a small Wilton Manors apartment. They go home at night and feed their cats and along the way try to make ends meet. Thorp also moonlights as an employee of a not for profit foundation. You just don’t necessarily go from reviewing ‘Spring Awakening’ at the Arsht Center on a Tuesday, to having CBS News call you on Wednesday to ask you how you broke the story. They, too, are a bit overwhelmed, caught in a tumultuous whirlwind of publicity surrounding their revelations.
On one hand, just another day in South Florida. On the other, let’s have a shout out to two young writers plying their craft and making news by writing news. Similarly, let’s praise Jo-vanni Roman, a young male sex worker, who took a plane ride which took him to London one day and national scrutiny the next. To his credit, he has risen to the occasion, revealing the truth, standing by it, and sharing it with the public. It was not something he bargained for when he put an ad in Rentboy sharing the size of his manhood and the sexual positions he favored.
The message to all these young men, as it was to the student who stood naked before a cannon on April 14, 1989 in Tiananmen Square, is sometimes the world comes calling, and you have to answer the bell.
This is pretty funny stuff read the story below, it's worth it.
http://www.southfloridagaynews.com/...rial/1374-the-hypocrisy-of-george-rekers.html
There are few things more ironic than Anderson Cooper covering a story about some one else covering up his homosexuality. But last week he did.
AC 360 hosted a feature on CNN in which a young Miami man suggested he accompanied a nationally known anti-gay leader on a European vacation, providing pubic and personal services ‘down there.’
George Rekers, the person who rented the rent boy’s services, is claiming he just used him as a travel assistant, and no sex was involved. But today’s Miami New Times blog by Brandon Thorp and Penn Bullock, the young men who are the subject of our cover story, will blow that line out the window too."We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."— Plato, (427 BC – 347)
That said, George Rekers is the same expert witness paid by the State of Florida with your tax dollars to testify at a trial held to defend the laws against gays adopting in this state. Nice, your money went to pay a guy to say you can’t raise boys. But he can rent them. This man is an unadulterated hypocrite.
You don’t go to the rentboy.com home page, which boldly reads, “Pimp yourself out today,” to find someone to carry your luggage. On Rentboy’s front page you find naked men with erect penises and ads for escorts and sex toys. I am guessing even an expert in heterosexual parenting might know this is a gay hook up site. There are no offers for ‘travel assistants’ on the home page. And I am guessing Rekers has been there before.
The attempt by Rekers to say he hired the Rentboy model, Jo-vanni Roman, aka ‘Lucien,’ shows how remarkably stupid these right wing evangelists can be. It also proves their ‘testimonies’ and speeches are mindless, meaningless, and mendacious.
These anti-gay critics fight the very homosexual contacts they cry out for. They censor the activity they cannot stay away from, thinking perhaps if they condemn the act they will distance their soul from the urges within which consume them. The Jimmy Swaggarts, Ted Haggards, and George Rekers evolve out of the same mold. They are foolish men all, condemning others for what they cannot control in themselves.
As for the escort, he is a nice young kid supplementing his income by offering himself out as a companion and more. He knows that involves massage and sex and more. He goes to hotel rooms and homes not knowing whether the person answering the door at the other end is a lonely gay man looking for a quick release or a married man seeking to escape his wife and kids. He just wants to make a quick buck and move on. He is not expecting to turn a trick in the Hyatt on a Friday and have the Larry King Show and Anderson Cooper calling on Saturday. A young kid exposed to this light can easily get burned. He is already being called a liar by Dr. Rekers.
Now let’s turn to Brandon K. Thorp, a 27 year old theater critic for New Times. He and his partner, Penn Bullock, 21, a freelancer for a few publications, live in a small Wilton Manors apartment. They go home at night and feed their cats and along the way try to make ends meet. Thorp also moonlights as an employee of a not for profit foundation. You just don’t necessarily go from reviewing ‘Spring Awakening’ at the Arsht Center on a Tuesday, to having CBS News call you on Wednesday to ask you how you broke the story. They, too, are a bit overwhelmed, caught in a tumultuous whirlwind of publicity surrounding their revelations.
On one hand, just another day in South Florida. On the other, let’s have a shout out to two young writers plying their craft and making news by writing news. Similarly, let’s praise Jo-vanni Roman, a young male sex worker, who took a plane ride which took him to London one day and national scrutiny the next. To his credit, he has risen to the occasion, revealing the truth, standing by it, and sharing it with the public. It was not something he bargained for when he put an ad in Rentboy sharing the size of his manhood and the sexual positions he favored.
The message to all these young men, as it was to the student who stood naked before a cannon on April 14, 1989 in Tiananmen Square, is sometimes the world comes calling, and you have to answer the bell.
