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    June 9, 2011

    Anti-Gay Group Says Rick Scott Is Hosting a Prayer Day (Update: He's not.)

    YAY HATE GROUPS​Update 2:54 p.m.: Rick Scott spokesman Lane Wright said there's no day of prayer and no Florida event planned, and that Scott has not committed either way to the Texas event.Texas Gov. Rick Perry invited the 49 other governors to his football-stadium prayerfest spectacular in Augus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    CNN to Air Story on Suicide of Former George Rekers Therapy Patient

    Brandon K. ThorpGeorge Rekers and a young male escort at Miami International Airport in 2010.​Anderson Cooper will examine a "shocking 'experimental therapy' designed to make feminine boys more masculine" on his show at 10 p.m. Tuesday. The story centers around 38-year-old Kirk Murphy, who killed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    American Values Group Urges President Obama to Address Urban Beach Weekend Chaos

    photo by Ivon David Rojas​The events of Urban Beach Weekend certainly have Miami Beach locals talking, but is it really an incident that the President of the United State needs to address? Gary Bauer, president of social conservative group American Values and a former Republican presidential candi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    New Times' Brandon K. Thorp, Penn Bullock Named to Out 100

    Courtesy of Larry Fink/Out Magazine​Two Miami New Times freelance writers, Brandon K. Thorp  and Penn Bullock, have been named as among the most significant contributors to gay America this year.They join Ricky Martin, Johnny Weir, and Julianne Moore (go figure) as members of the Out 100, who ... More >>

  • News

    May 20, 2010

    Letters from the issue of May 20, 2010

    Courtesy of Larry Fink/Out Magazine​Two Miami New Times freelance writers, Brandon K. Thorp  and Penn Bullock, have been named as among the most significant contributors to gay America this year.They join Ricky Martin, Johnny Weir, and Julianne Moore (go figure) as members of the Out 100, who ... More >>

  • News

    May 13, 2010

    How George Alan Rekers and his rent boy got busted by New Times

    Courtesy of Larry Fink/Out Magazine​Two Miami New Times freelance writers, Brandon K. Thorp  and Penn Bullock, have been named as among the most significant contributors to gay America this year.They join Ricky Martin, Johnny Weir, and Julianne Moore (go figure) as members of the Out 100, who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Jon Stewart Takes on Rekers' "European Gaycation" on The Daily Show

    ​The George Rekers and the rent boy scandal is at once very, very sad but also very, very hilarious. Following the mixed results of Jay Leno and Stephen Colbert, last night Jon Stewart took on the scandal on The Daily Show in a segment titled "European Gaycation."In the clip below starting at abou ... More >>

  • News

    May 6, 2010

    Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with "rent boy"

    ​The George Rekers and the rent boy scandal is at once very, very sad but also very, very hilarious. Following the mixed results of Jay Leno and Stephen Colbert, last night Jon Stewart took on the scandal on The Daily Show in a segment titled "European Gaycation."In the clip below starting at abou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

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

    George Alan Rekers, latest in a long line of closeted homophobes.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 trys ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    George Rekers Is a Homosexual, Escort Says

    Photo by Brandon K. ThorpGeorge Rekers and "Lucien" at MIA.​The male escort hired by anti-gay activist George Alan Rekers has told Miami New Times 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 alleged ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

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

    George Alan RekersAnti-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 sitti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Rent Boy Customer Dr. George Rekers' Damage Control: Jesus Hung Out with Prostitutes Too

    Dr. George A. Rekers says that Jesus hung out with prostitutes too.​Yesterday, a report from New Times contributors Penn Bullock and Brandon K. Thorp went up bringing to light the fact that Dr. George Rekers, a leading "scientific" voice in the anti-gay movement, had hired a male prostitute who ad ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    NARTH Responds to Rekers' Eurotrip With a Non-Response

    George Alan Rekers​By now, you've likely read about George Alan Rekers, the luxuriously mustachioed Christian fundie and co-founder of the Family Research Council, whom we caught coming home from Europe with a young male escort. Rekers claims his ill health necessitated hiring the boy as a luggage ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    What Does Mel Martinez Do Now?

    One has to wonder what was going through Sen. Mel Martinez's mind when President Bush's helicopter took off from Washington this past Tuesday. Before Bush chose Martinez to be his first HUD secretary, he was a little-known Florida fixture who had run an unsuccessful lieutenant governor campaign ... More >>

  • News

    September 19, 2002

    La Cosa Nuestra

    The war on sexual orientation reveals the organization and structure of the Take Back Miami-Dade political family

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