The Gay Thread

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Colbert made Rekers his Alpha Dog of the Week

Leno got in a few jabs Tuesday night (just after the seven minute mark)

Towle Road's full coverage

Watching an evangelical fall is better than eating Reese's Peanut Butter Cups while getting a blow job.

[innerSpaceman]

Yep, was just gonna post that the rent-boy, Jo-Vanni speaks out.


This story just keeps getting better and better. Click the link there (also to Towleroad) to read about the details of Rekers', ahem, preferences. Nothing to do with lifting luggage. Well, except that I'll be calling my junk my luggage from now on, so maybe Rekers was just a self-fulfilling prophet.


Bill McCullum, a candidate for governor of Florida, has had his campaign facebook page shut down because it was flooded with demands for answers and accountability over his payment to Rekers of $87,000 for testimony against gay adoption.

And lest we forget that Rekers recently adopted a 16-year old boy. In this one case, I tend to believe Rekers' testimony that teen boys adopted by gay parents face risk of molestation. Methinks he knows himself pretty well. <<shudder>>




Oh, and Jo-Vanni's a total cutie. I'm glad he came forward and did the right thing. I think I'll farm all my household chores out to kind folks at rentboy.com.

[JWBear]

He adopted the 16 year old 4 years ago. The son is now 20 - the same age as Reker's boy-toy. To me, that makes it even more tawdry and increases the ick factor.

[innerSpaceman]

Rekers continues a fine tradition.

Top Ten Outed Right-Wing Homophobes.

[innerSpaceman]

The Rekers story has given me an ear-to-ear smile for many days, but some inevitably sad aspects are surfacing.

First, the story of the family that Rekers tried to break up with his $87,000 paid testimony against the 10-years that saved these boys lives. Rekers said the boys would get over being ripped apart from their dads within a year. My friend Rob Tisinai has posted a relevant tale from the trial transcripts here on his blog. Bring a hankie.


Then, some snippets from a very recent telephone conversation between Rekers and his rent boy, Jo-Vanni. The kid is clearly distressed and in over his head, and Rekers is clearly a disgusting manipulator, out to save his own ass at all costs, and admits he's done this kind of thing before. Perhaps instead of Baptist preacher/fraudulent ex-gay therapist, he should have chosen Roman Catholic priest as his career if he was so set on ruining the lives of young men while ensconced in a self-loathing closet. Check it out here, at Towleroad.

Wow .... and just wow.

[Betty]

Wow. He's just evil!

[innerSpaceman]

And, inevitably, /second male prostitute comes forward to say he'd been hired by Rekers in the past. D'uh.

[Scrooge McSam]

White House transmittal of Defense Budget to Congress Does Not Include Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

Sadly, this is no surprise.

Nearly two weeks ago, on the evening of Friday, April 30, the Obama Administration shot a simultaneous salvo – from the Pentagon and the White House -- against advocates fighting for repeal this year. In a letter to the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Robert Gates came out against lifting the ban before the Pentagon's Working Group finishes its DADT study in December. Hours later, the White House issued a statement deferring to Gates. In doing so, President Obama appeared to reverse on the commitment he made during his State of the Union Address when he said: “This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are. It's the right thing to do.”

I eagerly anticipate President Fierce Advocate's next text message to supporters. I have a salvo or two for him.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I feel ya' Scrooge. But I'm finding it harder and harder to get worked up about these "set backs". I'm starting to come to the conclusion that honesty and straight forwardness in this process is an impossibility. It sucks, it's miserable, and the anger at it is justified. But I really believe that the truth of the matter is that if Obama tomorrow signed the necessary executive order, the path to integration would actually become that much harder.

Even if every top military official were on board, the fact is that there remains a lot of things that need to be addressed before it happens. There will be resistance, it will be ugly. The military does NOT deal in chaos. They are not going to just open the door and see what happens. They want to have a plan, they want to be ready to absorb the backlash, and adjust the "culture" on their terms.

And so the charade goes on. I can get myself no more worked up about it than I get about anything regarding the military. It is what it is. I truly believe that privately and internally they are preparing for the inevitability. But until they're ready to go, it's a matter of the devil they know vs. the devil they don't know. I'm convinced that their thinking is, "We're going to have to put a lot of time and effort into successfully integrating gays into the military. We'd much rather spend as much of that time and effort in a status-quo mode. We've been dealing with the "Repeal DATD!" anger for years and can continue it for a little longer. We do not want to try to plan for the major changes we foresee AND deal with a whole new form of anger, from within and without." And as soon as anything concrete happens, like legislation passing, that shift is going to happen. They're going to have to deal with unrest from the ranks, from veterans, and unrest from a different segment of civilian population.

I'm not happy that this is the situation. I certainly wish honesty would work, that the country could just be fvcking adults about it. And perhaps Obama should catch sine flack for promising something he can't publicly admit to working towards. But, I do believe progress is being made, and I don't feel like my anger, protests, letters are going to alter the course any at this point.

[innerSpaceman]

The country is surprisingly "adult," about it, GD. 70% in support of repealing DADT. Um, I don't think there's been 70% support of anything in this nation's history, except maybe abolishing the IRS.