Man Up

Long before he hired a gay escort, George Alan Rekers tried beating the gayness out of little kids. By Penn Bullock and Brandon K. Thorp What do you do with a little boy who likes cross-dressing and playing with dolls? If you’re George Alan Rekers, you “extinguish” the boy’s feminine…

Meaning and Malice

David Mamet’s Oleanna, when treated with even half of the passion and smarts evident in Max Pearl’s blistering Pinecrest Rep production, is an exhilarating play. It’s chock full of big ideas that hurtle across the stage, fueled by the audience’s contempt — nay, hatred — of a student named Carol,…

Before He Hired an Escort, Rekers Tried to Spank the Gay Away

What do you do with a little boy who likes cross-dressing and playing with dolls? If you’re George Alan Rekers, you “extinguish” the boy’s feminine behavior with a sometimes violent Pavlovian regimen while your scientific team observes through a one-way mirror. That’s what the Baptist minister — who made international…

Rekers on the Record

World, meet George Alan Rekers. You’re catching him at an awkward moment. This conversation was recorded the day after Rekers returned from Europe with his male escort, Jo-vanni, and he was in no mood to chat with the press — least of all about eight-inch penises and pornographic websites.  Note…

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…

Yes, Mamet

David Mamet’s Oleanna, when treated with even half of the passion and smarts evident in Max Pearl’s blistering Pinecrest Rep production, is an exhilarating play. It’s chock full of big ideas that hurtle across the stage, fueled by the audience’s contempt — nay, hatred — of a student named Carol,…

NARTH Had Hand in Rekers Damage Control, Escort Says

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 Association for Therapy and Research of Homosexuality (NARTH) allegedly had a hand in crafting a questionnaire…

There Were Others, Escort Says

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…

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

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…

George Rekers Is a Homosexual, Escort Says

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 allegedly named his favorite maneuver the “long stroke” –…

NARTH Responds to Rekers’ Eurotrip With a Non-Response (Updated)

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 handler — or high-price bellboy,…

Two Quarreling Jews

The Quarrel follows Rabbi Hersh Rasseyner (Avi Hoffman) and journalist Chaim Kovler (Chaz Mena) through a day in a Montreal park. They are old friends, long estranged, each of whom thought the other dead. It is 1948, and they have only narrowly survived Hitler’s Europe. After their happy embraces, the…

Held Captive

You can learn a lot at New Theatre this month. For example, actress Barbara Sloan, for so long typecast as a vengeful cougar, makes a fantastic screwball, or John Manzelli and Katherine Amadeo really should get together more. They have a magnificent and unfakeable chemistry in Raised in Captivity, a…

Meditation on Medication

Distracted is a meditation on medication, a schizo romp through a schizo world that mirrors our own a little too perfectly. Laura Turnbull plays a character called simply “Mom,” the mother of a kid who can’t focus. But who can? Dad (Stephen G. Anthony) is a ball of anxiety, their…