Foreign / Overseas LGBT News - Gay News Outside Singapore (Compiled)

[ixmog]

Hurray .... Now all gone ... Banned even the web now gone

http://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/image/20100115/nogay.jpg

NO GAY!!!!!

Although the pageant was blocked by china police, there will be alway gay people exist around you. Hooray ! Gay forever Are you kind of sick ego straight guy that reads a gay forum ?

Edited January 17, 2010 by ixmog

[snowball]

Are you kind of sick ego straight guy that reads a gay forum ?

to me, more like a person who can't accept his true identity ( Gay/Bi )

Edited January 17, 2010 by snowball

[Guest 中国彩虹先生 加油]

[Guest 中国彩虹先生 加油]

Beijing police blocked China's first gay pageant Friday shortly before it was to start, organisers said, stopping an event billed as heralding a new Chinese openness about homosexuality.

Organisers said police arrived at the upscale restaurant and club where the Mr Gay China contest was to be held and told them they did not have the proper licence.

Last Minutes footage at Mr Gay China venue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN4evdSzqMc

Posted by gyrovega on January 16, 2010 18:22 ET

HI, I AM JAIR VEGA, MR GAY MEXICO AND I WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS YOU MY SADNESS AND MY INDIGNATION ABOUT THE CANCELATION OF MR GAY CHINA FOR THE AUTORITIES EN THIS COUNTRY...and I would like to say to Gay Community of China that they have all our support (from Gay Community in México and from me), and I know that together ... ... (all the countries that we are taking part)we will struggle for the liberty of rights, and for that in the next contests, more countries can send their delegates... I wish you could send all my support to the China Organization and that I hope they can send their delegate for this contest..

[Guest boomz]

FEBRUARY 4--Just in time for Fashion Week, a top male model is facing criminal charges after allegedly offering sexual favors to Arkansas cops in return for his release following an arrest for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct.

Nick Snider, 21, was busted early Monday morning after causing a disturbance at a female friend's home in Batesville, a city 90 miles north of Little Rock. According to an Independence County Sheriff's Department report, when deputies approached the intoxicated Snider, he stated, "I am a very famous model." As Snider was being transported in a patrol car to the county jail, he "kept trying to get me to stop the car and let him go," reported Deputy Brian Luetschwager. "Mr. Snider stated to me, 'If you stop I'll suck your dick and balls if you let me go.'"

Snider, pictured in the below mug shot, allegedly repeated the oral sex offer after arriving at the local lockup, where the model "also harassed the booking Jailer with similar sexual comments." After declining the barter deal, deputies lodged an additional charge against Snider, this one for illegally attempting to influence a public servant. He pleaded not guilty yesterday to the three misdemeanor counts during an appearance in Independence County District Court. Snider is free on $780 bond and is scheduled for a February 17 trial. Snider has appeared as the face of Prada and was named by Forbes in 2008 as the world's fifth most successful male model. Last month, he was in Paris for the Yves Saint Laurent fashion show and will appear on various runways when New York City's Fashion Week begins February 11. Snider, a Manhattan resident, did not respond to TSG messages sent to his Facebook and MySpace accounts.

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/43708646.html

[Guest boomz]

If you understand Cantonese, here's the HK Apple Daily news clip.

[GachiMuchi]

Thursday February 4, 2010

Grandpa held in raid at gay joint

By ANN TAN and WINNIE YEOH

GEORGE TOWN: Police have busted two gay joints at a massage parlour and a fitness centre here with the arrest of 19 men, including a 65-year-old grandfather.

They also seized posters, towels and tubes of lubricant during the raid at the premises at a shopping complex here at 10pm.

It is said that their customers included doctors and lecturers.

Among the 19, two were caretakers aged 30 and 38 while seven were local customers. The remaining 10 were said to be sex workers from Thailand, Vietnam, China, Bangladesh and Myanmar.

The “company” is said to be hiring foreign employees, who entered the country with visit permits, in batches.

It is learnt the two shops, which have been closed down for two to three months, started its operations again recently.

Using massage parlour and fitness centre as a front for their operation, regular customers are given a password to enter the place. There are two closed circuit television cameras installed in front of the door for tight security.

Police earlier laid an ambush nearby and arrested a customer before forcing him to reveal the password. Some were said to be caught with their pants down when police stormed into the premises.

George Town acting OCPD Supt Gan Kong Meng, who confirmed the case, said police would be investigating the case under Section 377(B) of the Penal Code for committing carnal intercourse against the order of nature, Section 6(3)© and Section 39 (b) of the Immigration Act.

In another case, the police nabbed seven women from China in a raid at an unlicensed entertainment outlet in Gurney Tower.

Supt Gan said equipment like television sets, a microphone, DVD players and sound systems were also confiscated.

“The women will be investigated under Section 39 (b) and Section 51(3) of the Im­­migration Act,” he said.

[Guest visitor]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/12/AR2010041200007.html

By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI

The Associated Press

Monday, April 12, 2010; 12:01 AM

THIES, Senegal -- Even death cannot stop the violence against gays in this corner of the world any more.

Madieye Diallo's body had only been in the ground for a few hours when the mob descended on the weedy cemetery with shovels. They yanked out the corpse, spit on its torso, dragged it away and dumped it in front of the home of his elderly parents.

The scene of May 2, 2009 was filmed on a cell phone and the video sold at the market. It passed from phone to phone, sowing panic among gay men who say they now feel like hunted animals.

"I locked myself inside my room and didn't come out for days," says a 31-year-old gay friend of Diallo's who is ill with HIV. "I'm afraid of what will happen to me after I die. Will my parents be able to bury me?"

A wave of intense homophobia is washing across Africa, where homosexuality is already illegal in at least 37 countries.

In the last year alone, gay men have been arrested in Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. In Uganda, lawmakers are considering a bill that would sentence homosexuals to life in prison and include capital punishment for 'repeat offenders.' And in South Africa, the only country that recognizes gay rights, gangs have carried out so-called "corrective" rapes on lesbians.

"Across many parts of Africa, we've seen a rise in homophobic violence," says London-based gay-rights activist Peter Tatchell, whose organization tracks abuse against gays and lesbians in Africa. "It's been steadily building for the last 10 years but has got markedly worse in the last year."

To the long list of abuse meted out to suspected homosexuals in Africa, Senegal has added a new form of degradation - the desecration of their bodies.

In the past two years, at least four men suspected of being gay have been exhumed by angry mobs in cemeteries in Senegal. The violence is especially shocking because Senegal, unlike other countries in the region, is considered a model of tolerance.

"It's jarring to see this happen in Senegal," says Ryan Thoreson, a fellow at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission who has been researching the rise of homophobia here. "When something like this happens in an established democracy, it's alarming."

Even though homosexuality is illegal in Senegal, colonial documents indicate the country has long had a clandestine gay community. In many towns, they were tacitly accepted, says Cheikh Ibrahima Niang, a professor of social anthropology at Senegal's largest university. In fact, the visibility of gays in Senegal may have helped to prompt the backlash against them.

The backlash dates back to at least February 2008, when a Senegalese tabloid published photographs of a clandestine gay wedding in a suburb of Dakar, the capital. The wedding was held inside a rented banquet hall and was attended by dozens of gay men, some of whom snapped pictures that included the gay couple exchanging rings and sharing slices of cake.

The day after the tabloid published the photographs, police began rounding up men suspected of being homosexual. Some were beaten in captivity and forced to turn over the names of other gay men, according to research by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.

Gays immediately went into hiding and those who could fled to neighboring countries, including Gambia to the south, according to the New York-based commission. Gambia's erratic president declared that gays who had entered his country had 24 hours to leave or face decapitation. Many returned to Senegal, where they lived on the run, moving from safehouse to safehouse.

In March 2008, Senegal hosted an international summit of Muslim nations, which prompted a nationwide crackdown on behaviors deemed un-Islamic, including homosexuality.

The crackdown also coincided with spiraling food prices. Niang says political and religious leaders saw an easy way to reach constituents through the inflammatory topic of homosexuality.

"They found a way to explain the difficulties people are facing as a deviation from religious life," says Niang. "So if people are poor - it's because there are prostitutes in the street. If they don't have enough to eat, it's because there are homosexuals."

Imams began using Friday sermons to preach against homosexuality.

"During the time of the Prophet, anytime two men were found together, they were taken to the top of a mountain and thrown off," says Massamba Diop, the imam of a mosque in Pikine and the head of Jamra, an Islamic lobby linked to a political party in Senegal's parliament.

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"If they didn't die when they hit the ground, then rocks would be thrown on them until they were killed," says Diop, whose mosque is so packed during Friday prayer that people bring their own carpets and line up outside on the asphalt.

Sermons like Diop's were carried on the mosque's loudspeakers as well as in Senegal's more than 30 newspapers and magazines.

Around this time, in May 2008, a middle-aged man called Serigne Mbaye fell ill and died in a suburb of Dakar.

His children tried to bury him in his village but were turned back from the cemetery because of widespread rumors that he was gay. His sons drove his body around trying to find a cemetery that would accept him. They were finally forced to bury him on the side of a road, using their own hands to dig a hole, according to media reports.

The grave was too shallow and the wind blew away the dirt. When the decomposing body was later discovered, Mbaye's children were arrested and charged with improperly burying their father.

In the town of Kaolack three months later, residents exhumed the grave of another man believed to be gay. In November 2008, residents in Pikine removed a corpse from a mosque of another suspected homosexual and left it on the side of the road.

The grave-robbing has shocked even hardened gay activists, such as Nigerian Davis Mac-Iyalla.

"People have done horrible things (in Nigeria). I have seen people spit on coffins and people spit on graves," he said. "But it stopped there."

Among the people who appeared in the photograph published from the gay wedding was a young man in his 30s from Thies. He was an activist and a leader of a gay organization called And Ligay, meaning 'Working together,' which he ran out of his parents' house.

He was HIV-positive and on medication.

When the tabloid published the photograph, Diallo went into hiding, according to a close friend who asked not to be named because he too is gay. Unable to go to the doctor, Diallo stopped taking his anti-retrovirals. By the spring of 2009, he was so ill that his family checked him into St. Jean de Dieu, a Catholic hospital in downtown Thies, says the friend.

He was in a coma when he died at 5:50 a.m. on May 2, 2009, according to the hospital's records. Although the hospital has a unit dedicated to treating HIV patients, the young man's family never disclosed his illness, according to the doctor in charge.

Several gay friends tried to see Diallo in the hospital but were told to stay away by his family, says the friend.

When the AP tried to speak to Diallo's elderly father at his shop on the main thoroughfare in Thies, his other children demanded the reporter leave. One sister covered her face and sobbed. Another said, "There are no homosexuals here."

Hours after he died, his family took Diallo's body to a nearby mosque, where custom holds the corpse should be bathed and wrapped in a white cloth. Before the family could bathe him, news reached the mosque that Diallo was gay and they were chased out, says the dead man's friend. His relatives hastily wrapped him in a sheet and headed to the cemetery, where they carried him past the home of Babacar Sene.

"A man that's known as being a homosexual can't be buried in a cemetery. His body needs to be thrown away like trash," says Sene. "His parents knew that he was gay and they did nothing about it. So when he died we wanted to make sure he was punished."

The video footage captured on a cell phone shows what happened next. His thin body was placed inside a narrow trough in the middle of the bald cemetery dotted with clumps of weeds. Then you hear shouting.

The shaky image shows a group of men jerking around the edges of the grave. One of them straddles the pit and shovels away the fine gray dirt until you can see the shrouded body. It's still inside the trough when they tie a rope around its feet.

They yank it out, cheering as the body bends over the lip of the grave. The shroud catches on the ground and tears off, revealing the dead man's torso.

Rassul Djitte, 48, watched from behind the wall of a nearby school. He had not known Diallo personally, but says he felt a stab. "People were rejoicing," he says. "They dragged him past me and his body left tracks in the sand. Like a car passing through snow."

[slayer]

Thanks for this rather insightful look into the sorry state of some countries. I guess this serves as a good reminder to the people on this forum who are always lamenting at how "tough" life is for them here. Suddenly our worries about gym memberships, looking good enough to be cruised, having the right body, having the perfect cock to suck, or the perfect ass to pound... seems so trivial.

Edited April 15, 2010 by slayer

[Guest the facts]

we do not have to look too far and just look over the seas surrounding the red dot to the archipelagoes surrounding to find that in the past it was customary to slay people who practice unconventional sex practices by the SULA.

Males and females caught doing the wrong nasty have been impaled by a roughly sharpened bamboo through the anal opening and hung up for all to see as the unfortunate couple slowly slide down the bamboo impaler as they breathe their last breath. the bamboo usually comes through after going through the anal passage with the other end coming out through the side of the neck.

don't main-main (play play) with the sula.

[straight8ing]

what's wrong with those people? are they alright? they have nothing to do...

what can dead bodies do to them?

[Baloo]

We are all in various stages of evolution and civilation.

Societies also develop at a different speed.

These people probably still think the world is flat...

[Guest allanwu]

We are all in various stages of evolution and civilization.

true

but human nature still remains the same

people here show discrimination verbally, or through religious functions , demonize it,

people in Africa in this case , spit on dead bodies and throw them outside their parent's house

same thing but in a different way

[eric6363]

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-05-06/news/christian-right-leader-george-rekers-takes-vacation-with-rent-boy/

By Penn Bullock and Brandon K. Thorp Thursday, May 6 2010

The pictures on the Rentboy.com profile show a shirtless young man with delicate features, guileless eyes, and sun-kissed, hairless skin. The profile touts his "smooth, sweet, tight ass" and "perfectly built 8 inch cock (uncut)" and explains he is "sensual," "wild," and "up for anything" — as long you ask first. And as long as you pay.

On April 13, the "rent boy" (whom we'll call Lucien) arrived at Miami International Airport on Iberian Airlines Flight 6123, after a ten-day, fully subsidized trip to Europe. He was soon followed out of customs by an old man with an atavistic mustache and a desperate blond comb-over, pushing an overburdened baggage cart.

That man was George Alan Rekers, of North Miami — the callboy's client and, as it happens, one of America's most prominent anti-gay activists. Rekers, a Baptist minister who is a leading scholar for the Christian right, left the terminal with his gay escort, looking a bit discomfited when a picture of the two was snapped with a hot-pink digital camera.

Reached by New Times before a trip to Bermuda, Rekers said he learned Lucien was a prostitute only midway through their vacation. "I had surgery," Rekers said, "and I can't lift luggage. That's why I hired him." (Medical problems didn't stop him from pushing the tottering baggage cart through MIA.)

Yet Rekers wouldn't deny he met his slender, blond escort at Rentboy.com — which features homepage images of men in bondage and grainy videos of crotch-rubbing twinks — and Lucien confirmed it.

At the small western Miami townhome he shares with a roommate, a nervous Lucien expressed surprise when we told him that Rekers denied knowing about his line of work from the beginning. "He should've been able to tell you that," he said, fidgeting and fixing his eyes on his knees. "But that's up to him."

For decades, George Alan Rekers has been a general in the culture wars, though his work has often been behind the scenes. In 1983, he and James Dobson, America's best-known homophobe, formed the Family Research Council, a D.C.-based, rabidly Christian, and vehemently anti-gay lobbying group that has become a standard-bearer of the nation's extreme right wing. Its annual Values Summit is considered a litmus test for Republican presidential hopefuls, and Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter have spoken there. (The Family Research Council would not comment about Rekers's Euro-trip.)

He has also influenced American government, serving in advisory roles with Congress, the White House, and the Department of Health and Human Services and testifying as a state's witness in favor of Florida's gay adoption ban. A former research fellow at Harvard University and a distinguished professor of neuropsychiatry at the University of South Carolina, Rekers has published papers and books by the hundreds, with titles like Who Am I? Lord and Growing Up Straight: What Families Should Know About Homosexuality.

"While he keeps a low public profile, his fingerprints are on almost every anti-gay effort to demean and dehumanize LGBT people," says Wayne Besen, a gay rights advocate in New York City and the executive director of Truth Wins Out, which investigates the anti-gay movement. "His work is ubiquitously cited by lobby groups that work to deny equality to LGBT Americans. Rekers has caused a great deal of harm to gay and lesbian individuals."

Rekers is a board member of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), an organization that systematically attempts to turn gay people straight. And the Huffington Post recently singled out Rekers as a member of the American College of Pediatricians — an official-sounding outfit in Gainesville that purveys lurid, youth-directed literature accusing gays of en masse coprophilia. (In an email, the college's Lisa Hawkins wrote, "ACPeds feels privileged to have a scholar of Dr. Rekers' stature affiliated with our organization. I am sure you will find Prof. Rekers to be an immaculate clinician/scholar, and a warm human being.")

Rekers lectures worldwide, from Europe to the Middle East, on teen sexuality. Yet during his ten-day sojourn with Lucien to London and Madrid, he had no lectures scheduled. Both men deny having sex on the trip, and emails exchanged between the two before their jaunt are cautiously worded.

"I'd like to propose another trip to Rome, Italy, for a week or more," Rekers wrote in an email dated March 21 obtained by New Times. "This is so exciting to have a nice Travel Assistant and traveling companion! Wow! I'm so glad I met you."

"I called and talked to the reservation guy in London and reserved a room with two twin beds," Rekers wrote on March 26.

"Now that I'm packed, tomorrow I'll work on completing my income tax return," Rekers wrote two days later. "Not fun... But I'll just remind myself that the fun trip is coming soon."

In his interview with New Times, Lucien didn't want to impugn his client, but he made it clear they met through Rentboy.com, which is the only website on which he advertises his services. Neither Google nor any other search engine picks up individual Rentboy.com profiles, any more than they pick up individual profiles on eHarmony or Match.com. You cannot just happen upon one.

To arrive at Lucien's site, Rekers must have accepted Rentboy.com's terms of use, thereby acknowledging he was not offended by graphic sexual material. He then would have been transported to a front page covered with images of naked, tumescent men busily sodomizing each other.

Then Rekers must have performed a search. Did he want a "rentboy," a "sugar daddy," or a "masseur"? In what country? And what city? If Rekers searched for a rent boy in Miami, he would have found approximately 80 likely candidates. He must have scrolled down the first page, past the shirtless bears and desperate ex-models, and on to page 2. There, at last, was Lucien.

As a favor to Rekers, Lucien recently removed any wanton sexual descriptors from his Rentboy profile. Though he does admit Rekers "likes younger guys to hang out with," Lucien is protective of his erstwhile client. He describes Rekers primarily as a family man — one whose passion for oppressing homosexuals is dwarfed by his desire to help children. "You don't understand how much this guy honestly cares about taking care of kids," he says.

Indeed, much of Rekers's activism over the past three decades — beginning with his 1983 book, Shaping Your Child's Sexual Identity — has been devoted to improving children's lives by educating them, protecting them from their own budding sexualities, and keeping them safe from gay adoptions — as he did by testifying as an expert witness in favor of gay adoption bans in both Arkansas and Florida.

Well, it's a good thing Rekers isn't gay himself. Lucien tells us that Rekers frequently takes in foster children and that four years ago he adopted a 16-year-old boy. We found the boy, who is now Lucien's age, on Facebook. He declined to be interviewed.

[eric6363]

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/05/things_rekers_said_to_lucien_w.php

Things Rekers Said To Lucien When He Didn't Think We Were Listening

By Miami New Times Staff, Thursday, May. 6 2010 @ 10:00PM

Anti-gay activist George Alan Rekers contends in an earlier post on Riptide that he did not hire a young gay escort named Lucien as a prostitute. But what the minister -- who hasn't returned calls seeking comment -- likely didn't realize is that Miami New Times reporters were sitting beside Lucien during a candid conversation over speakerphone.

During that talk -- which took place at about 1 a.m. Thursday in a Fort Lauderdale home -- Rekers told Lucien several times not to talk to the press. He also never challenged two statements by Lucien: 1) that the minister had found the 20-year-old escort on an internet site, and 2) that they "did the whole massage thing," referring to Lucien's contention that he gave Rekers nude massages during their two-week trip to Europe.

(A statement on Rekers' website, professorgeorge.com, states that he "did not find out about his travel assistant's internet advertisements offering prostitution activity until after the trip was in progress" and that he was not "involved in sexual behavior with his travel assistant".)

Lucien began the conversation in a state of mild panic, understandably worried by the explosion of publicity that followed New Times' original expose. (Lucien, who asked that his real name not be used, has never told his family he is gay, and prior to the story's publication had declined to mention his line of work to many friends.)

Lucien was offended, too, by what he had learned from friends and press reports of Rekers' three decades of anti-gay activism, a record the Baptist minister tried to downplay.

"I just stay in the background," said Rekers, a co-founder with James Dobson of the Family Research Council, a vehemently anti-gay lobbying group. Of gay people, he said: "I've never picked a fight with them."

Rekers then said he has a "friend in the media" who's advised him to avoid all contact with the press. Rekers told Lucien to do the same.

"Tell them you don't want to do interviews," said Rekers. "Are they calling you on the phone, or calling you at your house?"

"Both!" cried Lucien.

Throughout, Rekers was very solicitous, and Lucien was plainly upset. Lucien explained he'd felt extremely uncomfortable in his dealings with the press.

"We did the whole massage thing," Lucien said, "and I don't know what to think about it."

"Yeah," said Rekers, "just say 'no,' and just say 'I've already [indecipherable] to the press,' and that's it. 'Cuz if you keep answering, it'll keep the story alive."

"This isn't something I can just be silenced about!" Lucien said moments later.

Rekers assured that if the escort just remained silent, the whole story would soon die down. He began muttering darkly about "activists with an axe to grind" and "nothing better to do."

Lucien suggested that perhaps "the media" had a point and that Rekers really had done harm to the gay community. He insisted that Rekers' struggle wasn't his, and said he had considered making a statement to the press.

"Well, don't do that," said Rekers. "It just causes more harm."

"What was going through your mind when you went on that website?" demanded Lucien, referring to rentboy.com, the gay escort site where he had posted his profile.

Rekers paused for several seconds, considering. "Well, I'd be happy to sit down and talk to you more about that." He paused again. "We have to deal with the situation that we have, and make sure it doesn't get worse."

"Sometimes I feel like I should just tell [the press] what happened on the trip."

"No," said Rekers quickly, "Please don't do that. Please don't let them pressure you into it."

"But I'm getting pressured out of the gay community!" Lucien was fairly screaming now. "If I ever wanted to be with someone -- it wouldn't work out! This is my fxxking name!"

After some cross-talk, Rekers tried to calm Lucien down: "I've been through things like this in the past --"

Lucien cut him off: "Well I haven't! I'm 20 years old! If you've been through this, you shouldn't have gone to that website, you shouldn't have hired me -- why did you make so many choices [for me]?"

The conversation was too sad, by then, and we couldn't bear to follow it. The whole thing felt pxxnographic. One of us took a bathroom break; the other of us left the couch and stood by a window.

-- Penn Bullock and Brandon K. Thorp

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/05/rekers_denies_hes_gay_threaten.php

George Alan Rekers Denies He's Gay

By Natalie O'Neill, Thursday, May. 6 2010 @ 5:58PM

George Alan Rekers, the anti-gay activist who hired a male prostitute, has fired back at the New Times reporters who broke the story. This afternoon, Rekers sent an email calling a follow-up article "defamation." He claims his rent-a-boy agreed to a statement that clears him of sexual acts.

Check out the letter below. It is addressed to reporter Brandon K. Thorp, who, along with Penn Bullock, caught the Christian right leader with a callboy at Miami International Airport.

Dear Brandon Thorp,

If today's news story in the Miami New Times is accurate, I have been advised to retain the services of a defamation attorney in this matter, because the fact is that I am not gay and never have been.

My travel assistant called me this afternoon earnestly asking me to clarify on my website that he worked for me as a travel companion and not as a prostitute. I completely agreed with my travel assistant that it is $!^*(ly true that I hired him and he worked for me as a travel companion and not as a prostitute. I also read to him the first sentence that has been posted on my website for several days that says, "A recent article in an alternative newspaper cleverly gave false impressions of inappropriate behavior because of its misleading innuendo, incorrectly implying that Professor George Rekers used the Rentboy website to hire a prostitute to accompany him on a recent trip."

Two days ago a professor friend of mine recommended that I ask my travel assistant to send me an email saying what happened on the trip so I could post a statement on what we agreed on. When I called my travel assistant to ask if he would write a statement to me, he asked me to send him questions to remind him of what topics about our trip he should write to me about, which I did on May 4.

Here are the four questions that I sent my travel assistant at his request two days ago, together with the answers we agreed on in our phone conversation this afternoon:

1. Did Dr. Rekers in fact hire you to lift my luggage when necessary as a travel assistant during the trip, because I cannot do so myself since I had surgery?

Together we agreed that I in fact hired him to lift luggage when necessary as a travel assistant during the trip, because I cannot do so himself since having surgery. We agreed that this is what my travel assistant agreed to do for pay prior to taking the trip.

2. Did you in fact lift my luggage during the trip each time it was necessary, or did Dr Rekers lift his own luggage during the trip?

We agreed that my travel assistant did in fact lift my luggage each time it was necessary, that I did not lift my luggage, and my travel assistant did all the lifting.

3. Did Dr. Rekers hire you as a prostitute for the trip?

We agreed that I hired him as a companion and to help with luggage, and that I did not hire him as a prostitute for any sexual purpose.

4. Did Dr. Rekers spend time explaining how the Christian faith is based in love to you during the trip?

We agreed that I explained the Christian faith to my travel assistant in conversations on several days during the trip.

Sincerely,

George A. Rekers, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science Emeritus

University of South Carolina School of Medicine

Fellow, American Academy of Clinical Psychology

Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/05/_despite_what_anti-gay_evangel.php

There Were Others, Escort Says

By Miami New Times Staff, Friday, May. 7 2010 @ 3:32PM

The gay escort hired by George Alan Rekers as a travel companion told Miami New Times Thursday that he had been paid to give the anti-gay crusader body rubs in the nude before their March 30 trip to Europe. And Facebook exchanges seem to back up that claim.

Lucien, not his real name, said Rekers twice visited his townhouse, about 40 minutes from the Baptist minister's North Miami home, before the two embarked on the trip to England and Spain.

"We had arranged for a nude body rub," Lucien said of one of the sessions. "I have a time-scale for this. We arranged for about an hour of time.... I just put the timer on, and it rolled into about two hours.. It was one of those things, [a mix] of conversation [and] rubbing."

In a Facebook exchange between Rekers and the gay escort dated March 20, Lucien offers to do "just about anything" at any time.

"George wanted to say when ever you want to talk, would you mind messaging, i'd prefer that," Lucien wrote at 7 p.m. "and you find out what you want to do i would be ok with just about anything and when ever is the next time you want to meet i'm ok with that as well"

Rekers responded at 10:29: "OK will do -- messaging and phone calls. I'm still working researching some trip ideas. Will let you know soon."

The Facebook exchange -- obtained by Miami New Times from an authorized user of Lucien's account -- throws into question a statement posted on Rekers' website, professorgeorge.com. It states that Rekers "did not find out about his travel assistant's internet advertisements offering prostitution activity until after the trip was in progress."

Rekers has denied that he is homosexual and called earlier stories "slanderous."

Rekers has declined to return requests for comment and did not respond to an emailed list of questions for this story. If he responds, his comments will be posted.

The 20-year-old escort said Rekers told him he was not the first "travel assistant" he had hired, but that he was the first to do any "traveling." (At least one other man has come forward on a blog called Chazonator claiming Rekers had retained his services for a sexual massage.)

"He's told me that he's hired other escorts, and it's never really worked out," Lucien said. "They don't talk enough, or they've had very weird circumstances... Basically, he's never been fully comfortable with the situation, or they've jipped him. Jipped him of time or money."

On Thursday, Rekers notified New Times he has been "advised to retain the services of a defamation attorney." In the letter, he alleged the escort had agreed to state the two had no "sexual relationship" -- a claim the escort denies.

Lucien was surprised and angry when the statement was read to him. "Wait -- you mean he mentioned there was no sexual...? Well, you know, I'm an escort, not a prostitute, and in this case, there was a sexual encounter amongst us. Agreed upon."

Lucien said he has a written contract with Rekers stipulating that he provide, in his words, "the same massage-type treatment we were doing in South Florida."

Lucien said Rekers let him select their European destinations, and, once there, allowed him to spend the day engaged in any pursuit he desired -- so long as he reported to their hotel room at a designated time for the requisite, daily rub-down.

According to Lucien, Rekers seldom left their hotel rooms during the trip -- he complained of allergies, which he treated with "a whole suitcase full" of ointments and evinced no interest in exploring either Madrid or London.

Rekers was a kindly, if boring, travel companion, Lucien says. Though he paid for the escort's airfare, lodging, breakfast, and dinner, as well as providing him with a daily stipend, Rekers never asked for full-on sex and expressed no interest in attaining orgasm.

Rekers, however, was very particular about his rubs, favoring a maneuver he called "the long stroke," Lucien said. "He asked me to rub him a certain way, stroking the penis across the leg and under the leg area.

"Basically he told me to stroke across the penis and the thigh, and to go back and forth, not necessarily give it a jerking motion."

Lucien claims Rekers would sometimes reciprocate the genital rub.

"He's a very strange individual," says Lucien. "Point blank: He is a very strange man."

-- Brandon K. Thorp and Penn Bullock

Edited May 8, 2010 by eric6363

[eric6363]

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/05/further_new_times_reading_on_t.php

Further New Times Reading on the Ex-Gay Movement, NARTH

By Jose D. Duran, Friday, May. 7 2010 @ 10:00AM

You might be tired of us forcing more and more news on the George Alan Rekers story, but we feel this is a story that needs to be told. For one, it's about the hypocrisy of denying a group of people certain rights, while pretending to be someone you aren't. And it's also about the absurd belief that being gay is something that is curable.

Our coverage of the ex-gay movement isn't something new. Actually, we urge you to read our 2007 feature "Scared Straight" by former Miami New Times staff writer Joanna Green. In the story, Green talks with several "ex-gays" that believe they can be cured through prayer-based counseling and reparative therapy, the technique supported by the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), of which Rekers is an officer.

[eric6363]

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/05/unless_youve_spent_the_last.php

George Rekers Has Company: The Top Ten Outed Right-Wing Homophobes

By Gus Garcia-Roberts, Thursday, May. 6 2010 @ 8:00AM

Unless you've spent the last 48 hours holed up in a French B&B humping the homosexuality right out of your rent-a-boy, you've probably heard about Miami New Times' exposé of gay-bashing evangelist George Alan Rekers' European tryst with a male prostitute.

Is there any homophobe out there that's not secretly had sex with men? Buju Banton, put your hand down. Catching counts.

Let's induct the top ten members into the Hall of Hypocritical Homophobic Homosexuals:

10. Richard Curtis, Republican member of the Washington state House of Representatives

How anti-gay is he? He voted against domestic partnerships for same-sex couples and voted against a bill prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination in a workplace.

How gay is he? He had sex with a gay male pxxn star -- oh, and Curtis wore lingerie under his clothing.

Totally gay quote: "I have not had sex with a guy."

9. Bob Allen, Republican member of Florida House of Representatives

How anti-gay is he? Supported a ban on same-sex couples adopting children.

How gay is he? Offered twenty bucks to a male undercover cop in exchange for letting him perform fellatio on him.

Totally gay quote: "This was a pretty stocky black guy, and there was nothing but other black guys around in the park," Allen, on the cop who he thought was trying to rob him. See, he offered to blow the guy because he feared he "was about to be a statistic".

8. Glenn Murphy, Jr., Chairman, Young Republican National Federation

How anti-gay is he? Dude, he's a Young Republican.

How gay is he? Got another Young Republican drunk and performed fellatio on him while he was asleep.

Totally gay quote: "We are the children of Reagan."

7. Roy Ashburn, Republican California state senator

How anti-gay is he? He voted against a day honoring slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk, voted against expanding anti-discrimination laws, and voted against gay marriage.

How gay is he? After being caught drunk driving with a male lover in the car, he publicly came out of the closet.

Totally gay quote: "I felt my duty is to represent my constituents, not my own point of view, not my own internal conflict."

6. Edward L. Schrock, Virginia Congressman

How anti-gay is he? He supported asking military recruits about their sexual orientation in order to bar gay soldiers.

How gay is he? Caught on tape soliciting sex from a male prostitute.

Totally gay quote: "I have come to the realization that these allegations will not allow my campaign to focus on the real issues facing our nation and region."

5. David Dreier, Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives in California

How anti-gay is he? Voted against gay marriage, gay adoption, and inclusion of sexual orientation in hate crime legislation.

How gay is he? Our sister paper in Los Angeles reported that he was getting it on with his chief of staff and paying him a very handsome salary in return.

Totally gay quote: None. Dreier refuses to address allegations about the affair and runs away when people ask him about his sexual orientation.

4. Larry Craig, U.S. Senator from Idaho

How anti-gay is he? Twice voted to constitutionally ban same-sex marriage. Twice voted against sexual orientation being included in hate crime legislation. Strangely, three times voted to have a margarita machine installed in the bathroom of the Minnesota airport.

How gay is he? He solicited sex from an undercover cop in said airport bathroom.

Totally gay quote: "Let me be clear: I am not gay and never have been."

3. Mark Foley, U.S. Representative from Florida

How anti-gay is he? Foley had a moderate voting record. But before we give him a pass, let's remember that he is a) a Republican and b) Chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children. Kinda funny-- read: sad-- considering...

How gay (not to mention molester-y) is he? For years, he sent sexual text messages to teenage Congressional pages.

Totally gay (not to mention molester-y) quote: "How my favorite young stud doing?:"

2. Ted Haggard, evangelist

How anti-gay is he? "Homosexual activity, like adulterous relationships, is clearly condemned in the Scriptures."

How gay is he? Hired male prostitutes. Also, used crystal meth.

Totally gay quote: "I think of myself as a heterosexual but with issues."

1. George Alan Rekers, evangelist and junk scientist

How anti-gay is he? Founder of the right-wing Family Research Council and board member of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, which teaches that homosexuality can be cured.

How gay is he? You better just read the story.

Totally gay quote: "I had surgery and I can't lift luggage. That's why I hired him."

[GachiMuchi]

Here is a more tongue-in-cheek video of the above news. (watch out for the ending quote)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908#37031183

"The miserable denial and lying in your own sex lives, is your own miserable in denial, lying business. Unless you make it the whole country's business by crusading against the thing that is true about yourself that you hate so much. Being gay cannot be cured, being a contemptible pathetic hypocrite, can be cured. Come out, come out, wherever you are." - Rachel Maddows.

[oralb]

Rachel really threw in the punches at this George guy, who claimed that he hired the guy for "luggage handling", makes you wonder what sort of luggage he needed the guy to handle ...

More on this guy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Alan_Rekers

a text book example of "Do As I Say (Not As I Do)"

[eric6363]

Rekers believes that gay people shouldn't be allowed to adopt boys. Only rent them.

The video clip in the link below is hilarious!!!

OSTED ON MAY 6, 2010, AT 4:21 PM

Best Opinion: Portland Mercury, Falls Church New-Press

The media is abuzz about George Rekers, the Christian leader and anti-gay activist who's claiming he took a male escort on a 10-day vacation as a combination luggage assistant and research subject ("I deliberately spend time with sinners with the loving goal to try to help them," said the Baptist minister via Facebook). Rekers is the same man, notes Dan Savage in the Portland, Ore., Mercury, who was paid $87,000 to testify against gay adoption in Florida. He clearly "believes that gay people shouldn't be allowed to adopt boys. Only rent them."

Today, a group called Californians Against Hate formally asked the Justice Department to investigate Rekers and the conservative group Family Research Council he co-founded in 1988 with James Dobson: "With so many problems around the close associates of ... Dobson and Tony Perkins, we need to know the truth." Meanwhile, Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert took Rekers to task for "publicly condemning man love while privately being man's best friend"—with the help of a topless cameraman. Watch the clip:

http://theweek.com/article/index/202689/Rekers_rentboy_scandal_The_fallout_continues

Here is where Stephen Colbert signs off :

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/308754/may-05-2010/sign-off---dancing-with-julian

Edited May 9, 2010 by eric6363

[eric6363]

On CNN's AC360

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/rekers-rent-boy-ac360

From Towle Road:

AC360 snagged George Rekers rent boy Lucien for his first television interview, which aired on the program last night. While there was no mention of the "long stroke," the 20-year-old did reiterate that he gave Rekers sexual massages during their two week European trip. He also disclosed a signed contract between himself and Rekers which, according to the program, stated that Lucien "must the carry bags, provide a massage for at least one hour every day of the trip in their shared room. Plus, spend at least 8 hours day with him, including two meals." All that for $75 a day.

Dan Savage gives his take on this ongoing story which now sees Rekers threatening to sue.

Writes Andy at Towleroad:

I hope someone in South Florida is stepping up to give Lucien some good advice and offering him some support. The young man really sounds in need of guidance, though I do commend him for speaking out for what he believes and exposing this dangerous, anti-gay hypocrite.

Let's hope that someone steps up? No, let's demand that one of the big gay orgs—HRC, Lambda Legal, NCLR—steps up and provides Roman with the lawyer and the advisors he needs. Let's not treat this kid, who is just 20, like he's done something wrong, or like he's an embarrassment to the gay rights movement because—gasp—he was doing sex work, as has been reported, to pay his college tuition. This kind of hypocrisy—Haggard's kind, Craig's kind, Rekers' kind—needs to be exposed. And it's likelier to be exposed if the people who bring it to light aren't treated like pariahs and are instead offered real and tangible support.

Bringing something like this—this being the appalling, malicious hypocrisy of George Rekers—out into the open can't become a path to fame and/or fortune. It isn't and shouldn't be something that sets a person up for life, or something that an escort cashes in on as he leaves the rentboy business. Because that dynamic would undermine the credibility of anyone who does the right thing and steps forward when a powerful political or religious leader is saying one thing in public about homosexuality and doing quite another thing in private. But we can't leave people like Jones or Roman dangling, not if we want people like Jones and Roman to keep stepping forward.

And we do.

[oralb]

some may think what's this got to do with us?

George's theory of "gays can be cured" is adopted by Focus on The Family group, which has been hired recently by MOE to teach sexual education in schools.

With so many schools to spread their teaching, I guess they may need to hire more "luggage handler"

[oralb]

funny quote on this

He needed someone to help him with his luggage. So naturally he turned to a site for gay prostitutes and picked one with an 8" uncut cock, because that's so important as a counterweight when lifting Samsonite bags. Stop me if you've heard this one before.

[cock brand]

The world are just full of such despicable religious hypocrites, he is just another one! :swear: :yuk:

And worst, they are making obscene amount of money out of it. :yuk: :swear:

Wonder if any of our religious righteous group here are affiliated or linked to him or any of his organisations.

[snowball]

The world are just full of such despicable religious hypocrites, he is just another one! :swear: :yuk:

有頭銜, 学历, 有丰富的学识, 不代表品质高尚有智慧,

挂羊头卖狗肉的一群无所不在,

盲目, 愚昧无知之人甘被玩弄,

可笑可喜.

Edited May 10, 2010 by snowball

[Guest Guest]

Interesting read. This world is full of hypocrites!

http://www.thedailybeast.com/tag/george+alan+rekers/?cid=csi:related5

[eric6363]

Look at how wide the guy's legs are spread in front of the young kid!

George Alan Rekers is indeed Shaping the Child's Sexual Identity!

Edited May 9, 2010 by eric6363

[amkies]

By now, i think most people who can think logically can tell why they are so afraid of us and so determined to do us in. They are afraid of facing the truth because the truth hurts.

[snowball]

They are afraid of facing the truth because the truth hurts.

more people afraid of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$, reputation ( 名誉 ), status ( 地位

) etc will all vanished in a night & not the truth, else why most good in twisting & hiding facts

Edited May 9, 2010 by snowball

[GachiMuchi]

Rekers believes that gay people shouldn't be allowed to adopt boys. Only rent them.

The video clip in the link below is hilarious!!!

http://theweek.com/article/index/202689/Rekers_rentboy_scandal_The_fallout_continues

Here is where Stephen Colbert signs off :

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/308754/may-05-2010/sign-off---dancing-with-julian

Hahaha. LOL. Colbert is so funny.

[FattChoy88]

All these post criticising what Rekers do with Lucien are so hypocritical.

Don't you guys do the same with your gay buddies?

It's one thing to criticise his stand and another to critisize his actions, which currently describes what we do.

Just look at the threads here, 'Cruising at toilets', 'Molested at train', etc..

[snowball]

讲话前后矛盾, 喜欢控制别人是傻子，被人控制是呆子。

Edited May 10, 2010 by snowball

[just_me22]

Look at how wide the guy's legs are spread in front of the young kid!

George Alan Rekers is indeed Shaping the Child's Sexual Identity!

hahaha... spread so wide, and holding a stick.. as if to say, "kid, if you don't do what i say, i'll hit you!" hahahaha

[cock brand]

All these post criticising what Rekers do with Lucien are so hypocritical.

Don't you guys do the same with your gay buddies?

It's one thing to criticise his stand and another to critisize his actions, which currently describes what we do.

Just look at the threads here, 'Cruising at toilets', 'Molested at train', etc..

Maybe you are as honourable as him, in front of everybody you are a loud international anti-gay activist but secretly, you are paying boys for your sexual pleasure.

Do you know what you are bitching about?

[beef4beef]

Here is a more tongue-in-cheek video of the above news. (watch out for the ending quote)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908#37031183

"The miserable denial and lying in your own sex lives, is your own miserable in denial, lying business. Unless you make it the whole country's business by crusading against the thing that is true about yourself that you hate so much. Being gay cannot be cured, being a contemptible pathetic hypocrite, can be cured. Come out, come out, wherever you are." - Rachel Maddows.

Rachel Maddow is awesome!

[GachiMuchi]

Another funny clip from Craig Ferguson on his Late Late Show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aP3o2q5wGY&feature=player_embedded#!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aP3o2q5wGY&feature=player_embedded#!

"If you're really really anti gay and you run an organisation that is really anti gay and you really don't like gay people and you really want to stop them from doing stuff, you're probably gay. So, just knock it off and get yourself something fabulous and then you'll be good." - Craig Ferguson

[Guest Guest]

All these post criticising what Rekers do with Lucien are so hypocritical.

Don't you guys do the same with your gay buddies?

It's one thing to criticise his stand and another to critisize his actions, which currently describes what we do.

Just look at the threads here, 'Cruising at toilets', 'Molested at train', etc..

Fattchoy88, I am proud to announce that I don't cruise, I don't go sauna, I don't stray and I don't judge others in this case like you.

How about you tell us do you do the same too ??

[FattChoy88]

Well I think all that cruising and secretly molesting people in trains are normal stuff.

I did that too.

It's strange seeing so many gay people clapping when some high handed article writes about Rekers and his 'disgusting' activities. Those gay people bashing Reker's activities are spitting into the sky.

Fattchoy88, I am proud to announce that I don't cruise, I don't go sauna, I don't stray and I don't judge others in this case like you.

How about you tell us do you do the same too ??

[amkies]

Why shouldn't we cheer when we their true images unfold in public? Spit into the sky? You think we are wasting time trying to expose the bad deeds of these hypocrites? I think most of the posters, including me would prefer to spit on hypocrites like you.

[applepie]

Well I think all that cruising and secretly molesting people in trains are normal stuff.

I did that too.

It's strange seeing so many gay people clapping when some high handed article writes about Rekers and his 'disgusting' activities. Those gay people bashing Reker's activities are spitting into the sky.

You have grossly missed the point and still keep on ranting! :swear: :yuk:

You are truly a sad case.

[GachiMuchi]

All these post criticising what Rekers do with Lucien are so hypocritical.

Don't you guys do the same with your gay buddies?

It's one thing to criticise his stand and another to critisize his actions, which currently describes what we do.

Just look at the threads here, 'Cruising at toilets', 'Molested at train', etc..

I think what FattChoy is trying to say is that he "empatise" with Rekers for being a closet gay who practice gay sex in private and being discreet like him but yet get exposed by the media and "condemn" by fellow BWers here.

What FattChoy may had failed to see is that; This (Rekers) closet gay xtian minister is a "contemptible pathetic hypocrite" who goes on a nation wide campaign by crusading against gay people and their lifestyle.

So FattChoy, do you see the difference between Rekers' hypocrisy and the so call "hypocrisy" of fellow BWer's comments?

[FattChoy88]

Gachi, thanks for being empathic.

Let me clear this up.

1/ Yes, I think Rekers is hypocrtitcal for this anti-gay stance and actions, and he deserves the gay community's condemnation.

2/ No, I don't agree with the article trying to paint Rekers (or anyone) more black by going on and on about how he like his to be massaged across his penis, or that he carries a luggageful of medicine. I don't agree with this approach. I wonder which male does not like to be massaged across the penis.

There was the time an antigay senator in the US got charged with cruising in the toilet. The article went on in detail how he would place his gym bag right behind the door and start tapping to the next guy with his right foot.

Criticize him for his anti-gay stance-->yes

Criticise his hypocracy-->yes

Write article to character assasinate someone based on something that the writer (or reader) probably does themselves--> cheapshot and wrong.

I think what FattChoy is trying to say is that he "empatise" with Rekers for being a closet gay who practice gay sex in private and being discreet like him but yet get exposed by the media and "condemn" by fellow BWers here.

What FattChoy may had failed to see is that; This (Rekers) closet gay xtian minister is a "contemptible pathetic hypocrite" who goes on a nation wide campaign by crusading against gay people and their lifestyle.

So FattChoy, do you see the difference between Rekers' hypocrisy and the so call "hypocrisy" of fellow BWer's comments?

[Guest blind hypocrite!]

Gachi, thanks for being empathic.

Let me clear this up.

1/ Yes, I think Rekers is hypocrtitcal for this anti-gay stance and actions, and he deserves the gay community's condemnation.

2/ No, I don't agree with the article trying to paint Rekers (or anyone) more black by going on and on about how he like his to be massaged across his penis, or that he carries a luggageful of medicine. I don't agree with this approach. I wonder which male does not like to be massaged across the penis.

There was the time an antigay senator in the US got charged with cruising in the toilet. The article went on in detail how he would place his gym bag right behind the door and start tapping to the next guy with his right foot.

Criticize him for his anti-gay stance-->yes

Criticise his hypocracy-->yes

Write article to character assasinate someone based on something that the writer (or reader) probably does themselves--> cheapshot and wrong.

Write article to character assasinate someone based on something that the writer (or reader) probably does themselves--> cheapshot and wrong.

THAT, exactly, was what Rekers did.

Not just an article, but many books and articles.

[eric6363]

If he portrayed homosexuality as a life-destroying temptation that only the strictest of measures could contain, that’s because, for him, it was.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-05-05/the-christian-rights-gay-problem/full/

Dr. George Rekers, a Christian anti-gay leader, was caught with a hooker from Rentboy.com—the latest example of hypocrisy on the religious right. Michelle Goldberg on why Ted Haggards keep happening.

In 1996, three researchers from the University of Georgia published a study in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology about the links between homophobia and homosexual arousal. The authors, Henry E. Adams, Lester W. Wright, Jr., and Bethany A. Lohr, started with 35 straight men identified as homophobic and 29 straight men that were not. Both groups were shown heterosexual, lesbian and gay male pxxn while their erectile responses were measured. “Only the homophobic men showed an increase in penile erection to male homosexual stimuli,” reported the researchers.

It was empirical evidence for a theory long popular among psychoanalysts: that those most hostile to gay people are often driven by terror and shame about their own desires.

So it’s not terribly surprising that Dr. George Rekers, a major figure in anti-gay Christian right circles, has been caught traveling with a male prostitute who advertises on Rentboy.com—becoming the latest in a long line of disgraced culture warriors.

As Penn Bullock and Brandon K. Thorp reported in Miami’s New Times this week, Rekers brought the escort, who advertised his “smooth, sweet, tight ass" and "perfectly built 8 inch cock (uncut)" on an all-expenses paid trip to Europe. Rekers later claimed, in a Facebook message to the blogger Joe Jervis, that he had hired the young man so as to save his immortal soul: “Like John the Baptist and Jesus, I have a loving Christian ministry to homosexuals and prostitutes in which I share the Good News of Jesus Christ with them.” Meanwhile, on his own website, Rekers offered a somewhat contradictory explanation, saying that he “requires an assistant to lift his luggage in his travels because of an ongoing condition following surgery.”

Rekers lacks the name-recognition of Ted Haggard, the megachurch pastor and former head of the National Association of Evangelicals who, in 2006, was brought down in a scandal involving a gay prostitute and crystal meth; or of anti-gay former Senator Larry Craig, who was famously arrested for “lewd conduct” in an airport restroom. Behind the scenes, though, Rekers has been a significant force in the fight against gay rights.

The founding chairman of the Family Research Council, Rekers is a leading advocate of conversion therapy to turn gay people straight. As a retired professor of neuropsychiatry and behavioral science at the University of South Carolina, he often writes in a scholarly, dispassionate manner, and his work is frequently used to give anti-gay arguments a veneer of scientific legitimacy. As he says on his website, “Dr. Rekers has delivered many invited research presentations on child and family variables before committees of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, and has served as an invited expert for White House staff and several presidential Cabinet agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services.”

In 2008, Rekers was one of two expert witnesses that the state of Florida called on in its bid to defend its ban on gay adoption. Gay people, he testified, “would have less capability of providing the kind of nurturing and secure emotional environment for children.” (As the Miami Herald reported, he also suggested that Native Americans be banned from adopting because they’re prone to mental illness and substance abuse. "They would tend to hang around each other," he said. "So the children would be around a lot of other Native Americans who are... doing the same sorts of things.")

Rekers' work purports to show that homosexuality is caused by disturbances in children’s proper sex-role formation. Because his views on what constitute proper sex roles are extremely rigid, his anti-gay activism is linked to a fulsome affirmation of patriarchy. In the 1980s, he authored a paper, “The Christian World View of the Family,” for The Coalition on Revival, a group that brought together different theological strands in the Christian right, including some who advocated scrapping democracy in favor of a theocracy.

“We affirm that the husband has final say in any family dispute, insofar as he does not violate biblical principles; that a husband’s headship is irrevocable; and that if the husband is incapacitated, the wife may exercise his authority as his deputy, not as his replacement,” he wrote, going on to vigorously condemn female employment. In cases of family crisis, he allowed, “the wife may, with her husband’s approval, accept temporary outside employment, but... the family should view this as bondage, strive to liberate itself, and petition God for liberation.”

Satisfying as it is to see such a man unmasked, Rekers deserves a measure of pity as well as scorn. If he portrayed homosexuality as a life-destroying temptation that only the strictest of measures could contain, that’s because, for him, it was. He seems like he’s devoted his life to a hysterical battle to preserve his own threatened sense of masculinity, and now he stands defeated and exposed.

Michelle Goldberg is the author of The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World and Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. She is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, and her work has appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, Glamour, and many other publications.

Edited May 11, 2010 by eric6363

[eric6363]

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/05/narth_had_hand_in_rekers_damag.php#

NARTH Had Hand in Rekers Damage Control, Escort Says

By Miami New Times Staff, Tuesday, May. 11 2010 @ 9:02AM

Members of one of America's largest "ex-gay" organizations may have secretly intervened in the rentboy scandal, publicly calling for a "thorough investigation," while working behind the scenes to quash the story.

Figures in the National Association for Therapy and Research of Homosexuality (NARTH) allegedly had a hand in crafting a questionnaire George Alan Rekers emailed to Jo-vanni Roman, the gay escort who accompanied him on a two-week trip to Europe.

The email asks Roman, who has been identified in New Times stories as "Lucien," to corroborate that he handled luggage and learned about Christian love during their two-week vacation.

In an exclusive New Times interview early last Thursday morning, Lucien contradicted Rekers for the first time and said he had provided seamy rubdowns in the nude. He said he also declined to fill out the questionnaire.

"Apparently the people who are associated with NARTH, they asked for him to send me an email of things we should write out," Lucien told us. "And I didn't agree upon it because I didn't feel comfortable with the whole situation."

After the interview concluded, Lucien suddenly called Rekers over speakerphone. New Times reporters jotted down notes.

Lucien asked Rekers repeatedly if anyone else had been involved in the questionnaire. "Yeah, one of the guys who's on the board of a professional organization with me," Rekers said.

In fact, Rekers is on the board of NARTH, a non-profit based in Encino, California, that believes homosexuality is a curable mental disorder. NARTH claims to be able to turn gay people straight.

"First, I got some advice from the public relations people at a professional organization," Rekers said.

What was the advice from the unnamed organization? "The only way to make this news story go away is to make your first statement and then stop giving interviews," Rekers told Lucien.

As Lucien kept digging for details, Rekers finally admitted that the "professional organization" was NARTH.

In our interview, Lucien told the New Times that he was contracted to provide Rekers with massages in Europe for $75 a day. After his allegation broke, the Miami New Times, along with numerous other media outlets, published Rekers's questionnaire to Lucien, along with answers that, oddly, Rekers himself had filled in and sent out. Here's a sample.

Question: "Did Dr. Rekers hire you as a prostitute for the trip?"

Answer: "We agreed that I hired him as a companion and to help with luggage, and that I did not hire him as a prostitute for any sexual purpose."

Question: "Did Dr. Rekers spend time explaining how the Christian faith is based in love to you during the trip?"

Answer: "We agreed that I explained the Christian faith to my travel assistant in conversations on several days during the trip."

Lucien denied to the New Times making the statements in Rekers's questionnaire. The young man restated his allegation that he had a consensual "sexual encounter" with Rekers. The far-right theologian denies it.

NARTH, where Rekers is a senior figure, issued a May 6 press release on its website: "NARTH takes seriously the accusations that have been made (about Rekers), and we are currently attempting to understand the details behind these press reports... we urge all parties to allow a respectful and thorough investigation to take place."

If NARTH helped craft the email to Lucien and counseled Rekers on how to kill the rentboy story, the organization's idea of a "thorough investigation" may be a whitewash.

-- Penn Bullock and Brandon K. Thorp

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Apparently, Dr George Rekers is just the latest discovery among the many of prominant but disgraceful Christian evangelists; some were cheats, but mostly were due to sexual scandals.

For your information:

My link

[snowball]

understand & forgive

Hatred is not the answer

Edited May 11, 2010 by snowball

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understand & forgive

Hatred is not the answer

Don't understand why you post this at all, nothing better to do????

What hatred?

Understand what?

Forgive who?

Please be specific!

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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/rekers_resigns_from_board_of_ex-gay_group_narth.php?ref=mp

Rekers Resigns From Board Of Ex-Gay Group NARTH

Rachel Slajda | May 11, 2010, 12:32PM

George Rekers resigned this morning from the board of NARTH, the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, amid a gay escort scandal.

NARTH vice president of operations David Pruden tells TPMmuckraker that Rekers first offered his resignation last Thursday, and officially resigned today.

NARTH is a group that promotes the idea that homosexuality can, and should, be cured.

Pruden also denied a report in the Miami New Times that NARTH had been involved in helping Rekers respond to the media.

"NARTH has never had any role in advising Dr. Rekers except to suggest that if he is innocent he needs to get a good lawyer," Pruden said in an email. "He has friends who are members of NARTH and they are free to talk with, advise, and needless to say, they are free to help him in any way they might select."

"NARTH as an organization has taken no official role in this other than asking him to explain to us what has happened and in accepting his resignation," he said.

Rekers, who is also a co-founder of the Family Research Council and a member of groups that seek to protect children from homosexuality, was recently caught with a young male escort.

Rekers maintains nothing sexual occurred, but the escort has told the press that he was hired to give Rekers erotic massages.

Rekers has also testified for the states of Arkansas and Florida in defense of their bans against gay couples adopting children. Florida paid Rekers $120,000 for his testimony, which the judge said was not credible.

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Gachi, thanks for being empathic.

Let me clear this up.

1/ Yes, I think Rekers is hypocrtitcal for this anti-gay stance and actions, and he deserves the gay community's condemnation.

2/ No, I don't agree with the article trying to paint Rekers (or anyone) more black by going on and on about how he like his to be massaged across his penis, or that he carries a luggageful of medicine. I don't agree with this approach. I wonder which male does not like to be massaged across the penis.

There was the time an antigay senator in the US got charged with cruising in the toilet. The article went on in detail how he would place his gym bag right behind the door and start tapping to the next guy with his right foot.

Criticize him for his anti-gay stance-->yes

Criticise his hypocracy-->yes

Write article to character assasinate someone based on something that the writer (or reader) probably does themselves--> cheapshot and wrong.

By not providing some details of what that despicable Dr Rekers's special request on the way to be massaged - erotically thats it, it could be just an ordinary innocent massage, how to reveal his hypocrisy, you tell us.

Now, he should immediately register with that NARTH for therapy to have his homosexuality cured, being a board member he should get a pretty good discount!

BTW, isn't this Family Research Council associated with the Focus On The Family which recieved a big christmas present (S$15K?) from our DBS Credit Card, courtesy of Ms Josie Lau (remember last year's AWARE saga)?