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George Rekers Is Gay, Says Escort


Lucien Jo-vanni Roman George ALAN REKERS X390 | ADVOCATE.COM

Antigay activist George Rekers is indeed gay, according to the male escort he hired for a 10-day trip across Europe.

The escort spoke to the Miami New Times at length Wednesday night, detailing his sexual exploits with Rekers, who had previously claimed the young man accompanied him to Europe to help haul his luggage. He told the New Times he provided Rekers with daily body rubs in the nude.

"It's a situation where he's going against homosexuality when he is a homosexual," he told the New Times. "In all honestly [sic], he should disassociate himself from these [antigay] groups."

The escort, who up until now has been identified in the press as "Lucien," identifies himself as Jo-vanni Roman on his Facebook and MySpace profiles.

When contacted yesterday by The Advocate, Roman was hesitant to speak about Rekers but according to the New Times, a friend who filled him in on Rekers antigay record convinced him to speak out. 

Rekers is a board member for the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality and a cofounder of the antigay Family Research Council, though the latter organization has attempted to distance itself from Rekers since this story broke.

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  • Name: Mh-huh
    Date posted: 5/20/2010 4:38:55 AM
    Hometown: Nashville

    Comment:

    mhhh-huh... (bet) he likes to be called Shirley while f**ed in the a** by a big uncut penis

  • Name: Ann
    Date posted: 5/8/2010 12:24:00 PM
    Hometown: Portland

    Comment:

    The foster boys in Florida are doing great & are bonded w/their foster parents. So naturally they want permanent parents. Therapists testified it would be devastating to move them at this point, but Florida's AG dug up Reker as a way to deny the adoption and has made it clear the boys will be removed and put in new homes if he wins the appeal. Here's the ACLU info on the boys: www.aclu.org/lgbt-rights_hiv-aids/re-gill-case-profile. Look for their latest update. In Florida a gay couple can be licensed foster parents but can't offer a permanent home? Florida's AG stacked the deck by spending $120,000 on a fake expert (that was discredited in an Arkansas Court 3 yrs earlier). See the hilarious comments people are leaving on his facebook page: www.facebook.com/mccollumforgovernor

  • Name: Ann
    Date posted: 5/8/2010 12:13:34 PM
    Hometown: Portland

    Comment:

    Two little foster boy's adoptions are in the appeal process because of Florida's Attorney General, Bill McCollum. These boys have been with their adoptive parents since 2004, one was an infant when placed. Florida has already made it clear they plan on REMOVING both boys and finding them new homes if their ban is upheld in the Court of Appeals! Florida begged Gil & his partner to initially take these children despite them being in the process of moving to Georgia-promising it would only be short term. When the Social Workers never moved the kids and couldn't find them another home-Gil and his partner actually sold their home in Georgia and stayed in Florida simply so that the boys wouldn't have to be moved or separated into two foster homes. That was their level of commitment to those kids.

  • Name: Charles
    Date posted: 5/8/2010 11:54:49 AM
    Hometown: Akron

    Comment:

    escortethic - There is a duty for all GLBT people that have relevant information pertaining to people who try to suppress gays in any way, to come forward and expose those people for who and what they are. If you yourself have truthful information about a person who berates or lies about the nature of GLBT people, and you don't come forward, then you are as guilty as that person for oppressing gay people. What ethic is there in keeping quiet when a person engages in a hypocritical act, then goes out of their way to deny you and others like you of your rights as a human being. I think it's disgusting that you should try to speak of professional ethics in the escort industry, when millions of peoples basic human rights are being denied. Including your right to do with your body as you see fit.

  • Name: Borat Sagdiyev as George Rekers
    Date posted: 5/7/2010 2:21:38 AM
    Hometown: Kazakhstan

    Comment:

    "You mean the men that tried to put rubber fist in my anus were gay?"

  • Name: Gene
    Date posted: 5/7/2010 2:11:12 AM
    Hometown: Allentown, PA

    Comment:

    Luckily for me it took only 6 months and one suicide attempt to realize that I didn’t need to be “repaired,” as a NARTH-based program I got dragged into would have had me believe. I was admittedly stupid and gullible to get sucked into the idea that there might be something to “reparative” therapy; but as we can see from his story, Rekers is a masterful liar and manipulator of facts. Many other families have not been spared the pain caused by this man and his lies. It's all very fun to see a hypocrite get his comeuppance. It's tempered quite a bit for me by the thought of the hundreds – probably thousands – of lives have been affected by him and NARTH. Some of the homo hysteria sweeping Africa is also fed by his gibberish. Woe to him who leads others astray. It would be better had he never been born.

  • Name: escortethic
    Date posted: 5/7/2010 1:43:19 AM
    Hometown: NM

    Comment:

    Irresponsible reporting from Advocate, all in hopes of once again appearing like the gay bulldog news media. Ruining a kid's life just so you can get the story is complete and utter crap. As for this kid being a 'hero,' that's also bullshit. He's a hooker who'd sell his soul just so he can make this month's rent payment. It reeks of opportunistic sway and I'm sure it won't be long before he's selling his story to anyone who will listen or promise him a book deal. Sure, it may have happened, but as a hooker, he broke the cardinal rule of his trade: KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. You're not getting paid to judge. You're getting paid to keep quiet. ... And from what it looks like, he wasn't getting paid much.

  • Name: Davlin Court
    Date posted: 5/6/2010 10:11:54 PM
    Hometown: Long Beach

    Comment:

    Why must we be our own worst enemies? Can self-hate be that overwhelming?

  • Name: Bruce
    Date posted: 5/6/2010 9:39:03 PM
    Hometown: Victoria

    Comment:

    Lol...most of the loud homo bashers are GAY. No surprise, but man it's funny.

  • Name: melvin
    Date posted: 5/6/2010 9:05:11 PM
    Hometown: South Dakota

    Comment:

    I also wonder how this story came to light in the first place. Not that I am unhappy about it, but who was the ignition? A man who went to such lengths to hide his proclivities, then exits the plane solo and all of a sudden this story appears. Someone in this man's inner circle [ not the escorts ] opened up. Who and why did he finally do it? jilted lover?

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