Christian-right-leader and rentboy

[+ purplekow]

In fact he did run an ad which said: interests include oral, anal, bondage, water sports and luggage handling.

[RockCreekRunr]

Medicare?

 

Since he clearly hired the young man to assist with luggage due to his medical condition, do you suppose medicare would cover the expense for the rentboy? If so, perhaps we should all start hiring doctor-mandated luggage boys for our vacations.

[Pegasus]

And all he could find was that slender (VERY PRETTY) waif of a boy?

 

Wouldn't you go for at least a LITTLE muscle if you're looking for a luggage handler?

 

My thoughts precisely, Deej. This guy is an interesting choice given the thousands of rentboys (uh, I mean, luggage assistants) to choose from.

[+ glutes]

'Take my LOAD!'

 

RawStory isn't exactly MSM, but their article is in-depth:

 

A Christian leader and prominent neuro-psychiatrist who co-founded the Family Research Council with evangelist James Dobson took a ten-day European vacation with a callboy he met through RentBoy.com and was caught in an airport with the escort by a Miami newspaper.

 

The escort said he had met George Rekers, professor of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of South Carolina, on RentBoy.com. Rekers, when confronted, didn't deny that he'd met the callboy online, but said he had hired him to help him carry his baggage and didn't learn he was generally hired for "private company" until mid-way through his European vacation.

 

"I had surgery," Rekers told Miami's New Times, "and I can't lift luggage. That's why I hired him." (The paper noted that it didn't stop him from pushing a "tottering" pile of luggage through Miami International Airport.)

 

The callboy, identified by a pseudonym, told the New Times' Penn Bullock and Brandon Thorp that Rekers claim that he didn't know his "line of work" seemed spurious.

 

"He should've been able to tell you that," he said. "But that's up to him."

 

According to Penn and Thorp, the slender, 20-year-old escort's profile advertises his "smooth, sweet, tight ass" and "perfectly built 8 inch cock." RentBoy.com's profiles are not indexed by Google.

 

“It is clear that Rekers has baggage and certainly needs help,” said Wayne Besen, a prominent opponent of the "ex-gay" movement and director of the nonprofit Truth Wins Out. Referring to South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, a conservative who claimed he was hiking when he'd actually been meeting with a mistress, he added: “At least he did not say he was walking the Appalachian Trail.”

 

"This is a bombshell that completely discredits the ex-gay industry and proves that the movement is a fraud,” Besen added.

 

The paper printed emails exchanged between the professor and the escort prior to their trip. Rekers co-founded the conservative and anti-gay Family Research Council with Rev. James Dobson in 1983.

 

"I'd like to propose another trip to Rome, Italy, for a week or more," Rekers purportedly wrote in an Mar. 21 email 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 allegedly remarked in a later email.

 

Rekers is a prominent advocate against gays in Florida, where he resides. He testified against Florida allowing gay couples to adopt, asserting that children of gay couples "living with a practicing homosexual in the adoptive home,” are especially “vulnerable to psychological damage and an increasing inability to adapt."

 

A commenter on a California Catholic daily, which reported the findings of Rekers' investigations into gay adoption, remarked, "The active principle in these children's stress is the fact that their welfare comes in dead last in the homosexual lifestyle - it is oriented toward grooming them for traumatic early sexualization and exploitation by adults."

 

The escort told New Times that Rekers is "primarily a family man," despite their European jaunt.

 

"You don't understand how much this guy honestly cares about taking care of kids," he was quoted as saying.

 

Reker is the author of "Growing Up Straight: What Families should Know about Homosexuality."

 

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0504/christian-leader-caught-rent-boy-needed-luggage/

[Guest ChgoBoy]

I'm as angry as hell, and I'm...........Forget about it.

 

Where I become exhaustively aghast with these types of individuals is - what more can you really say about them and their behaviors against society, which has not already been painfully identified, said and stated before elsewhere, ad nausem?

 

It’s probably mindless to think that any one comment, or any one commentary, on or of them, when they do finally surface, is going to change the fact that once they have become yesterday’s trash, from today’s trash (and they all do become that); that there are not going to be equally as many more, just like them, ready and ripe for the pickings and catch in the pipeline to follow up their disgrace.

 

I think it’s a testament to the fact, that it’s better for these people to burn in a rotting public hell, because of what was once their very public and their very personal assaults and their very selfish personal beliefs, which are now failed, yet which they inflicted upon, into, and against the better and more humble aspects of our society’s peoples lives and beliefs; so cruelly, and for their own selfish greed and own personal sexual satisfaction. All the while giving up their “rosebud fist fucked holes" (Authors assumption - your mileage may vary), because of surgery and lifting restrictions” in the same breath to deny it - Than it is for them to get away with it, with no personal and public disgrace inflicted upon them, because of it.

 

May they all rot together in an everlasting public, pubic and post humus hell.

 

And in unrelated news....Lou Piniella's move of starting pitcher Carlos Zambrano to late inning relief duty in the pen, as apposed to his multi-million dollar contract as a starting pitcher for the team, has proved fruitless to his (Piniella's) last year contract with the team....

 

Thank God for the new and expanded piss troughs in the upper deck. Some things really do work at Wrigley. :-) Developing.....

 

 

 

 

[+ blondeq]

Usually, I just tip a bellman or porter 10 bucks to help me with my luggage. This kid must be one hell of a bag handler to spend 200 bucks an hour for a 10 day trip. For that price, I would expect that the bag handler would not only load my bags but unload them as well.

[+ Lucky]

Here is a review posted the other day at MER, picture is the same one shown of Lucien on page two of this thread

 

http://www.maleescortreview.com/index.php?file=view_escort_review&review_id=1747&escort_id=210050001

 

 

The MER reviewer hired him for "muscle worship." That must have been a short session. Plus, he doesn't french kiss, so Professor Rekers lost out on that too.

[Guest ChgoBoy]

Colbert Report - Alpha Dog of the Week - George Rekers

 

I am still pissing my pants. You must watch this! ROFL

 

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/308752/may-05-2010/alpha-dog-of-the-week---george-rekers

 

And... Zach Sire over at unzipped gets the exclusive interview from the Rentboy himself here nice job Zach

[Guest ChgoBoy]

Unzipped gets bumped by the Miami Times

 

Unzipped's exclusive interview with "Lucien" has been one upped by the Miami New Times here

 

Apparently, for now, this is the only interview which will be given by the escort.

[JackTwist]

Rev. Rekers Rentboy...

 

From the looks of this photo at the Miami Airport, it appears Rev. Rekers is handling the baggage cart.

 

http://towleroad.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c730253ef0133ed4136da970b-pi

[JackTwist]

Rentboy: "Rev. Rekers is Gay"

 

"Lucien" the rentboy is 5'9" and 130 lbs. Seriously, how much luggage can he lift?

 

http://www.truthwinsout.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/roman_rekersx390.jpg

 

Lucien has confirmed to "The Advocate" that "Rev. George Rekers is gay." Story here: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/05/06/Rekers_Is_Gay_Escort/

[GoodFella69]

Hallelujah!

 

You can't make this kinda stuff up. The hotter the anti-homo rhetoric, the more you know that they just want to get it on with a stud. Prediction: Fred Phelps, the idiot in charge of that hateful Kansas Baptist church that demonstrates at dead servicemen's funerals about how God Hates Fags, will be the next "Christian Conservative" outed.

[+ Lucky]

Is Lucien the love child of Jay Leno? He has the Leno chin in this pic, but it could just be the angle-

 

from towleroad.com

 

 

Rent Boy: George Alan Rekers is a Homosexual who Enjoys Body Rubs in the Nude

 

http://towleroad.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c730253ef013480864274970c-800wi

Rent Boy "Lucien" (whom the Advocate identified as Jo-Vanni Roman) tells the Miami New Times all about his trip with anti-gay Christian right leader George Alan Rekers:

http://towleroad.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c730253ef0133ed52adc0970b-200wi

The male escort hired by anti-gay activist George Alan Rekers has told Miami New Times that the Baptist minister is a homosexual who paid him to provide body rubs, once a day, in the nude, during their ten-day vacation in Europe.

Rekers allegedly named his favorite maneuver the "long stroke" -- a complicated caress "across his penis, thigh... and his anus over the butt cheeks," as the escort puts it. "Rekers liked to be rubbed down there," he says.

The paper adds: "Although Rekers does have physical ailments that make it difficult for him to haul suitcases, Lucien wasn't hired to carry luggage on their European vacation, the escort says. 'It's a situation where he's going against homosexuality when he is a homosexual,' Lucien says. Lucien was interviewed late last night in the Fort Lauderdale house where he was laying low for the evening. The townhome he rents in a west Miami suburb has been inundated by uninvited guests since his identity was revealed by a blogger on Gawker shortly after the story broke."

Rekers, we remind you, was the state of Florida's star witness in support of the ban on gay adoption. For his testimony he and a colleague were paid $87,000.

A campaign by Joe Jervis aimed at getting attorney general Bill McCollum to respond to the Rekers scandal caused the shutdown of McCollum's gubernatorial campaign Facebook page

 

(I hope that Lucien has a blog so he can write about all of this!)

[Guest socal30]

This guy got paid $87,000 to testify against gays adopting? Yet he adopted a child too? What a twisted mind he must have.

[+ glutes]

Is this kid still available? I want to try one of these 'long strokes'!

 

The male escort hired by anti-gay activist George Alan Rekers has told Miami New Times that the Baptist minister is a homosexual who paid him to provide body rubs, once a day, in the nude, during their ten-day vacation in Europe.

 

Rekers allegedly named his favorite maneuver the "long stroke" -- a complicated caress "across his penis, thigh... and his anus over the butt cheeks," as the escort puts it. "Rekers liked to be rubbed down there," he says.

[BewareofNick]

Rekers now tops (ahem) the list of closeted rightwing republican homophobes:

 

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/05/unless_youve_spent_the_last.php?page=2

[+ glutes]

What does Dobson say?

 

This defamation lawyer better get his money up-front...

 

George Alan Rekers, the co-founder of the Family Research Council who has admitted hiring a gay man as a travel assistant for a trip to Europe (Rekers claims that he did not know the man was gay), is threatening to sue for defamation. He aims his fire at the Miami New Times, which broke the story.

 

"If today’s news story in the Miami New Times is accurate," said Rekers in an e-mail to me, "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."

 

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/05/religious-right_leader_ensnare.html

[fedssocr1]

now that it has hit The Today Show, CNN, Colbert and The Daily Show I think it's safe to say this story is out there in the mainstream now.

[+ glutes]

I guess Faux News isn't mainstream media:

 

http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/search?q=rekers

[J-Man]

Into water sports, leather, and luggage handling

 

Someone needs to add an appropriate definition (i.e., some suitably horrible sexual practice) for "luggage handling" to the Urban Dictionary.

[uwsman2]

Interviews

 

Gay blogger Joe.My.God has an extensive telephone interview with "Lucien" on his blog, and reportedly there will be a CNN interview this morning. The kid sounds really nice, although a bit naive - a 20 year old collegian escorting to help cover his education costs.

[+ glutes]

Link:

 

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/05/my-interview-with-jo-vanni-roman.html

 

Around 1am this morning I got tipped by one of the guys at Unzipped that Jo-Vanni Roman was finally ready to speak with me. Five minutes later I had him on the phone from Fort Lauderdale, but not before I alerted Father Tony to be ready to rush over to him immediately for a video interview. Jo-Vanni declined to meet with Tony for reasons you'll learn at the bottom of this post. Right now, I'm going to cover some key points of our 90 minute, wide-ranging conversation before they slip out of my mind. It's 3:00AM!

 

Let's open by saying that this kid is no dim bulb. I found him frank, sharp, funny, and quite forthcoming to all my questions. And I had a lot. But I also must say Jo-Vanni is almost painfully naive about some things, as you'll see. Since this interview was completely unplanned, it wasn't recorded and I didn't have a prepared set of questions. So as our conversation bounced around timelines and often veered into unrelated tangents, I think the best way to write this post is just to bullet-point some of the key things he said me.

 

-Jo-Vanni came out to friends in high school at the age of 16, but went on his first date with a boy while in the 9th grade. His parents know he's gay, but they don't yet know that he escorts.

 

-His first contact with Dr. George Rekers was via email through Rentboy.com. They met in person one time before the trip to Europe, but "nothing happened."

 

-Jo-Vanni was excited to take his first trip out of the country and use his passport for the first time. He describes Rekers as a pleasant, amiable travel companion. Before leaving Miami, Rekers told Jo-Vanni that he was a child psychologist, but gave no hint of his also being a Baptist minister, much less a nationally infamous anti-gay activist.

 

-In Europe, much of their sightseeing involved visiting historic churches and cathedrals, where Rekers would offer various historical facts about the buildings and their place in the history of their respective religions. Jo-Vanni says that he never felt preached to or that Rekers was trying to convert him from being gay, although he says they did have at least one rather direct conversation about "all morality being from God." An ardent atheist, Jo-Vanni says he argued to Rekers that one could be a moral person and still not believe in God. "That was pretty much it as far as religion. He didn't quote Scripture at me or anything," he said. So much for Rekers' claim of Christ-like outreach to the fallen.

 

-Jo-Vanni says their accommodations were far from deluxe and that their hotel in London was "like a crappy Days Inn or something." It was in those budget hotel rooms where he and Rekers had their daily erotic nude massage sessions. Jo-Vanni confirmed to me the "anus long-stroking" technique reported by the Miami New Times, but says that's as far as things went. He says that Rekers never suggested taking things further, but that Rekers' cock was "rock hard" during the massages. "So it was definitely sexual for him?" I asked. "Oh, for sure!" he replied. And in that way that 20 year-olds speak, he added, "He was definitely totally gay for me." I asked, "And you didn't think it was strange that he didn't at least want to blow you?" He hesitated. "Yeah, at first, I guess. But it kinda felt like maybe he was just getting started, you know, like he was new to gay sex, maybe." (This I doubt highly, but didn't say so to Jo-Vanni.)

 

-As for the much mocked "lifting of the luggage," Jo-Vanni says that Rekers told him that he'd had three hernia operations. Jo-Vanni says he did indeed do most of the luggage carrying on the trip. In fact, he says that the now notorious Miami International photo was a fluke and the reason it seemed that Rekers was pushing the luggage cart is that they'd been separated moments earlier as they exited customs. Jo-Vanni had been waved through ahead of Rekers.

 

-Jo-Vanni swore to me that he still has no idea how the Miami New Times was tipped to their arrival in Miami. He claims he had no contact with their reporters either before or during the trip. He speculated to me that "maybe somebody hacked George's email." According to Jo-Vanni, "Some guys rushed up, took our picture and ran away. I said to George, 'Did you just see that?'" (This aspect of the story intrigues me greatly.)

 

-Jo-Vanni says he first got wind of the expose' by the Miami New Times when they called to advise him of the pending story and request a reaction. They also told him exactly who he'd been vacationing with. Jo-Vanni says he immediately called Rekers, asking, "Did you tell them you went with me? You did? Why did you do that?" Jo-Vanni is angry that Rekers confirmed the trip. "If he hadn't, it would have just been their (Miami News Times') word against ours."

 

Since the story broke on Tuesday, we've all seen George Rekers' increasingly desperate attempts to deny the sexual aspect of their trip or that he even met Jo-Vanni on Rentboy.com in the first place. They've spoken on the phone once since then, during which Jo-Vanni angrily confronted Rekers about his anti-gay work with the Family Research Council. "I just stay in the background" was Rekers' limp defense. The call ended with Rekers begging Jo-Vanni to refuse future interview requests.

 

After covering every aspect of his time with Rekers that I could think of, I wanted to know if Jo-Vanni now got exactly who he is. I asked him, "You DO understand just what an incredible monster George IS, right? The horrible things he's said in court about gay people? That he's personally responsible for ripping apart gay families?" I wanted to disabuse Jo-Vanni of what seemed to be fleeting moments of odd affection for the man who'd been such an agreeable travel companion. "Oh, yes. I get it, I really do. He's like way worse than the orange grove lady." The orange grove lady. I'm afraid I went a little Professor Homo at that point and gave Jo-Vanni a three-minute primer on Anita Bryant.

 

But that "orange grove lady" moment sort of crystallizes who Jo-Vanni is, I think. He's clearly a sharp kid, but there's a plaintive naivete to him. We talked about his being deluged with media requests and he asked me if I'd ever heard heard of the National Enquirer and if "they are any good." Yes, I've heard of them. They're horrible. Stay away from them. "OK, thanks for telling me, They've been calling." He also, as impossible as it seems, had never heard of Ted Haggard or the Mike Jones scandal and he seemed somehow encouraged to learn from me that another gay escort had been through a similar firestorm of attention. I told him about Jones' book and Jo-Vanni responded, "I should probably buy that tomorrow, huh?"

 

We'd been on the phone for more than an hour at that point, having veered randomly into non-scandal related topics like how many Puerto Ricans live in NYC (lots, he was surprised to learn). I was about to wrap things up when I almost idly asked, "So what have you got planned for tomorrow, more laying low, so to speak?" He said, "Well, I do have to get up early for an interview. You know that guy, the gay reporter on TV?"

 

That gay reporter is Anderson Cooper, whose office has been calling Jo-Vanni. So this morning CNN's Randi Kaye will meet Jo-Vanni at a Fort Lauderdale hotel for an on-camera (but probably silhouetted) interview. And there Jo-Vanni says he will hand over the confidentiality agreement signed by himself and Dr. George Rekers. "You know, I'd love to see that contract if you wouldn't mind faxing or emailing a photo of it to me," I said innocently. Jo-Vanni laughed and declined. Like I said, naive perhaps, but not dumb.

[KMEM]

Rekers now tops (ahem) the list of closeted rightwing republican homophobes:

 

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/05/unless_youve_spent_the_last.php?page=2

 

 

T BoN-

 

Are you an out of the closet left wing homosexual? Just asking? I don't intend for this to be the same type of question such as, have you quit beating your BF. No need to answer unless you wish to do so.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[zeferrelli]

interesting' i'm not so sure what to think

[instudiocity]

You can't make this kinda stuff up. The hotter the anti-homo rhetoric, the more you know that they just want to get it on with a stud. Prediction: Fred Phelps, the idiot in charge of that hateful Kansas Baptist church that demonstrates at dead servicemen's funerals about how God Hates Fags, will be the next "Christian Conservative" outed.

 

I'd pay double his rate for an escort to screw Fred Phelps! I don't even need proof! If Phelps is right, he'd die, maybe happy, maybe not, but he'd be gone.