Is the Tea Party racist? The NAACP thinks so. And the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white pride group, agrees. Of course the Tea Party is racist, crowed a blog post on the Council’s website yesterday — and it would be proud of its racism if it weren’t wussy…
Of all the world’s sundry Tiki events, Fort Lauderdale’s Hukilau is one of the holiest. This year’s ninth annual fest will begin Thursday at 5 p.m. with Harold Golen’s “Poly Blend” art show at the Bahia Mar Hotel. At 8 p.m., the party will move poolside at the Bahia Cabana…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
How George Alan Rekers and his rent boy got busted by New Times
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…
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…
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…
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” –…
Jeff Dunham is America’s most famous redneck ventriloquist. But his conservative fans might not adore him so much if they knew his stand-up consists of fisting male Islamists and rubbing illegal immigrants’ sticks. Achmed the Dead Terrorist and Jose Jalapeño on a Stick, an actual Mexican jalapeño who might or…
Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with “rent boy”
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,…
Bobby Slayton is ass-nasty. He’s nicknamed the Pitbull of Comedy. He’s had his own Showtime and HBO specials. He might not use his Haitian cab driver routine at his shows in SoFla, but he’s bound to mortally offend someone down here anyway. layton is a Jewish guy in his 50s…
In 1977, Florida Citrus Commission spokeswoman Anita Bryant got a Dade County referendum passed that made LGBT people second-class citizens. In response, local activists boycotted OJ and created the Pride Parade and Rally. And although it took two decades, they were able to get the antidiscrimination ordinance reinstated and regain…
In 1896, William Selig founded the first film studio in Hollywood, California, then a sleepy farming town, in order to escape Thomas Edison’s Eastern cartel. But what he created was a commodity factory that far exceeded Edison’s New Jersey black box and didn’t always stay true to its artistic roots…
Haulover Beach Park is a protected stretch of coastline sporting big-wave surf, well-sculpted sand dunes, and an infamous clothing-optional zone at the north end. In other words, it’s a great place to “hang out.” Prudes who prefer to steer clear of people’s bits and pieces can stick to the non-nudist…
On July 20, 1810, Colombia declared independence from Spain. Nine years later, the Spaniards withdrew in an exhausted huff as the victorious revolutionaries, led by Simón Bolívar and Francisco Santander, convened a constitutional convention and a new government. Interestingly, the name Colombia then referred to most of South America, and…
Known as the “Jamaican Bill Cosby” for his clean, sharp comedy, Oliver Samuels does it all — stand-up, television, and, in this case, theater. Samuels stars in Patrick Brown’s Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing, a Jamaican play that’s traveled across the United States. Most recently, it rocked Washington, D.C., and now…
When the Miami Herald rehired novelist Ana Menendez as a columnist in 2005, a colleague greeted her grimly: “Welcome back to newspapers. It’s like joining the railroads in 1897.” That witticism turned into an omen; three years later, Menendez was laid off, but not before she’d collected a devoted following…
Dame Edna Everage is the most notorious drag queen in the Anglo-Saxon world. She’s a hybrid of Lou Dobbs and Ursula (the octopus queen in the Little Mermaid). There are more fake jewels on her dresses than grains of sand on a beach, and her trademark cat-eye glasses have tentacles…
