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New Times Earns Three First-Place AltWeekly Awards

​Miami New Times and the Village Voice topped America's alternative newspapers in last week's awards handed out by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies in New Orleans. Staff writer Gus Garcia-Roberts was given the nod for best feature for a story about fallen music entrepreneur Scott Storch ... More >>

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 >>

New Times Writers Honored By Out Magazine

Brandon K. Thorp and Penn Bullock​It was May when we caught anti-gay oracle George Rekers vacationing with a rentboy, yet the story continues to redound on our lives. Last night, the two of us headed to a warped Frank Gehry building in Manhattan for the Out 100 party, a Sodom and Gomorrah gatherin ... More >>

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 >>

Supreme Court Considers Vaccine-Autism Case While New Times Probe Draws Ire

Dr. Gary Kompothecras, an influential political donor to Gov. Charlie Crist, is at the center of a controversial study.​The U.S. Supreme Court today is scheduled to hear a case that could have a wide-ranging impact on hundreds of lawsuits that claim there is a direct link between autism and vaccin ... More >>

Letters from the issue of October 7, 2010

Dr. Gary Kompothecras, an influential political donor to Gov. Charlie Crist, is at the center of a controversial study.​The U.S. Supreme Court today is scheduled to hear a case that could have a wide-ranging impact on hundreds of lawsuits that claim there is a direct link between autism and vaccin ... More >>

New Times Finalist For 10 Press Club Awards

​Miami New Times was shortlisted for ten awards for Excellence in Journalism from the Florida Press Club, with staff writer Tim Elfrink a finalist for four awards. Gus Garcia-Roberts is finalist for two awards, while Francisco Alvarado, Kyle Muzenreider, and Pam Shavalier are also nominated.

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Rekers's Spanking Science

Letters from the issue of May 20, 2010

Rekers's Spanking Science

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

Rekers's Spanking Science

Letters from the issue of May 13, 2010

Rekers's Spanking Science

Crist Ad Surfaces on White Pride Site

​"We created this civilization -- by 'we,' I mean the whites." So says Gordon Baum, the CEO of the Council of Conservative Citizens -- the CCC, for short. "Our local chapters would probably support a referendum to ban inter-racial marriage, I would speculate," he says in a New Times interview. ... More >>

NARTH Had Hand in Rekers Damage Control, Escort Says

Did NARTH help George Alan Rekers with damage control?​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.Officials of the National Assoc ... More >>

George Rekers Resigns from NARTH Board

via NARTHNARTH claims it can cure people of their homosexuality. Was Rekers "Not only a bored member, but also a client?"​Dr. George Rekers has resigned from the board of the NARTH, the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, in the wake of the fallout following his tr ... More >>

There Were Others, Escort Says

Conversation between George Alan Rekers and Lucien via Facebook on March 20, 2010.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 Faceboo ... More >>

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 >>

George Alan Rekers Denies He's Gay

​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. ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Photo: Anti-Gay Activist George Rekers and His Rent Boy at Miami International Airport

Photo by Penn BullockGeorge Rekers and 'Lucien' waiting for the elevator at MIA.​Here's the photo referred to in yesterday's story about anti-gay activist George Rekers and his rent-boy. Note that Mr. Rekers is handling the baggage. So who's helping whom?

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 >>

Did Efraim Diveroli's Crony Ship Missiles to Hezbollah?

Courtesy of Miami-Dade CorrectionsEfraim DiveroliIn early 2007, after winning a $300 million U.S. Army contract to equip Afghanistan with munitions, Miami Beach arms dealer Efraim Diveroli, age 21, went scavenging in Albania. There he subcontracted Ylli Pinari, head of that Balkan country's state-ru ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of February 26, 2009

"Never have I seen a law that motivates people to break the law more than this one."

Letters from the Issue of February 19, 2009

"Brian had the potential to be anything he wanted to be, but unfortunately his life was cut short."

Letters from the Issue of February 12, 2009

"Though Diveroli seems like a sleaze, everything he has done seems to be legal. The prosecutors rushed into a very legally shaky case."

Letters from the Issue of October 2, 2008

"Senator Obama's ancestors were never slaves in America; therefore he wouldn't have been in anybody's 'house'!"